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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Francis Bacon	5,236
2	John Dowland	494
3	Juan de Oñate	390
4	Nurhaci	320
5	Willebrord Snellius	131
6	Edward Alleyn	123
7	Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar	105
8	Lancelot Andrewes	99
9	Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk	96
10	Ernst von Mansfeld	88
11	Samuel Purchas	81
12	Paul and Mattheus Brill	75
13	Malik Ambar	72
14	William V, Duke of Bavaria	71
15	Oeyo	70
16	Edmund Gunter	57
17	Lady Abahai	57
18	Radu Mihnea	46
19	Isabella of Savoy	46
20	François Béroalde de Verville	44
21	Samuel Argall	43
22	William Rowley	42
23	Adriaen de Vries	39
24	Christian the Younger of Brunswick	39
25	Jerome Horsey	36
26	John Davies (poet)	34
27	Isabella Brant	33
28	William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire	31
29	Cyril Tourneur	29
30	Salomon de Caus	27
31	Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt	25
32	Peter Chamberlen	24
33	Honda Tadatoki	24
34	Pierre Coton	24
35	Wakisaka Yasuharu	23
36	Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua	23
37	Pietro Cataldi	22
38	Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah	22
39	Arthur Lake (bishop)	21
40	John Gostlin	21
41	Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester	20
42	Martin Pring	20
43	Théophile de Viau	19
44	Salomon de Brosse	19
45	Hector Mor Maclean, 16th Chief	18
46	Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)	17
47	Gastón de Moncada, 2nd Marquis of Aitona	17
48	Antiveduto Grammatica	15
49	Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli	15
50	Jedidiah Norzi	15
51	Giovanni Priuli	14
52	Prokop Sieniawski	13
53	François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières	13
54	Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de Chalais	13
55	Marin Getaldić	13
56	William Cockayne	13
57	Johann Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar	13
58	John Spilman	13
59	Herman van Speult	13
60	Nicholas Breton	12
61	Niall Garve O'Donnell	12
62	Miyamoto Mikinosuke	12
63	Valentine Cary	12
64	Henryk Firlej	11
65	Alessandro Orsini (cardinal)	11
66	John Cooper (composer)	10
67	Avraamy Palitsyn	10
68	Christopher Holywood	10
69	Cristoforo Roncalli	10
70	Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil	10
71	Thomas Milles (bailiff)	10
72	Joan Pau Pujol	9
73	Nicholas Felton	9
74	Sebastian Petrycy	9
75	Abraham Govaerts	8
76	Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer	7
77	John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness	7
78	Naitō Yukiyasu	7
79	Juraj V Zrinski	7
80	John Murton	7
81	Anthony Acland (Jesuit)	6
82	Cæsar Clement	6
83	Edward Coffin	6
84	William Sclater	6
85	Niccolò Alamanni	less than 5 views
86	Enea Salmeggia	less than 5 views
87	Agustín del Castillo	less than 5 views
88	Godai Tomoyoshi	less than 5 views
89	Richard Stock	less than 5 views
90	Samuel Rüling	less than 5 views
91	Nicholas Fuller	less than 5 views
92	Richard Senhouse	less than 5 views
93	Gaspare Aselli	less than 5 views
94	Gilles de Souvré, Marquis de Courtanvaux, Baron de Lezines	less than 5 views
95	Shimozuma Rairen	less than 5 views
96	Johannes Rosinus	less than 5 views
97	Andrés de Claramonte	less than 5 views
98	Terence Arragh	less than 5 views
99	Matsudaira Shigetada	less than 5 views
100	Giacomo Cavalieri	less than 5 views
101	Nose Yoritsugu	less than 5 views
102	Jacques Le Bossu	less than 5 views
103	Anne of Saint Bartholomew	less than 5 views
104	Álvaro of Lencastre, 3rd Duke of Aveiro	less than 5 views
105	Jan Wejher	less than 5 views
106	Patrick Galloway	less than 5 views
107	Anthony Wotton	less than 5 views
108	Sancho de la Cerda, 1st Marquis of la Laguna	less than 5 views
109	Thomas Burgess (died 1626)	less than 5 views
110	Thomas Scott (preacher)	less than 5 views
111	Anastasio Fontebuoni	less than 5 views
112	Arthur Throckmorton	less than 5 views
113	James MacDonald, 9th of Dunnyveg	less than 5 views

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