← Fame through time1430-1439
The 1430s
Whose working lives fell in the 1430s. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1430s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Joan of Arc22 decades - 2
Johannes Gutenberg17 decades - 3
Constantine XI Palaiologos0 decades - 4
Charles VII of France0 decades - 5
Murad II11 decades - 6
Sejong the Great0 decades - 7
Leon Battista Alberti22 decades - 8
Philip the Good0 decades - 9
Catherine of Valois0 decades - 10
Nicholas of Cusa13 decades - 11
Pope Nicholas V10 decades - 12
Albert II of Germany0 decades - 13
Alfonso V of Aragon21 decades - 14
Vlad II Dracul0 decades - 15
John II of Aragonnot measured- - 16
Paolo Uccello22 decades - 17
Xuande Emperor0 decades - 18
Francesco I Sforza0 decades - 19
Owen Tudor19 decades - 20
Marie of Anjou22 decades - 21
Pisanello22 decades - 22
Guillaume Du Fay0 decades - 23
Nezahualcóyotl0 decades - 24
Bartolomeo Colleoni22 decades - 25
Bahlul Khan Lodi0 decades - 26
Moctezuma I0 decades - 27
Joan Beaufort0 decades - 28
Ramananda11 decades - 29Hüma Hatun0 decades
- 30
Luca della Robbia22 decades - 31
Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon21 decades - 32
Eleanor of Aragon0 decades - 33Hacı I Giraynot measured-
- 34
Maria of Aragon22 decades - 35
Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy8 decades - 36
Jean de Dunois0 decades - 37
Gennadius Scholarius0 decades - 38
Charles I of Bourbon0 decades - 39
Zara Yaqob0 decades - 40
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut5 decades - 41
Didacus of Alcalá22 decades - 42
Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine21 decades - 43
Basilios Bessarion0 decades - 44Loukas Notaras0 decades
- 45
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli19 decades - 46Niccolò de' Conti14 decades
- 47
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury21 decades - 48
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset16 decades - 49
Michelozzo18 decades - 50
Gilles Binchois5 decades - 51
Ali Qushji0 decades - 52
Agnes Bernauer21 decades - 53
Albert III, Duke of Bavaria22 decades - 54Emine Hatun0 decades
- 55
Jacopo Bellini0 decades - 56
Filaretenot measured- - 57
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk20 decades - 58
John, Count of Angoulême22 decades - 59
John IV of Trebizond0 decades - 60
Louis III of Naplesnot measured- - 61George Sphrantzes0 decades
- 62
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham15 decades - 63
John, Constable of Portugalnot measured- - 64
Mesih Pasha0 decades - 65
Julian Cesarini0 decades - 66
Orbannot measured- - 67
Jacques Cœur0 decades - 68
Yu Qian3 decades - 69
Konrad Witz12 decades - 70
Theodoros II Palaiologosnot measured- - 71
Ausiàs March0 decades - 72
Ferdinand the Holy Princenot measured- - 73
George of Trebizond11 decades - 74
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucesternot measured- - 75
Jorge Álvares0 decades - 76
Johann Fust9 decades - 77
Michael Szilágyi0 decades - 78
Theodoros Gaza0 decades - 79
Chang Yŏngsilnot measured- - 80
Francesco Filelfo22 decades - 81
Anne of Burgundy0 decades - 82Doukasnot measured-
- 83
Francesco Squarcione0 decades - 84
Stjepan Vukčić Kosačanot measured- - 85
Jovan Kastriotnot measured- - 86Alexander I Aldeanot measured-
- 87
Tlacaelel/ Tlakaelelnot measured- - 88
Baysonqornot measured- - 89
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana0 decades - 90
Sigismund Korybut0 decades - 91
Lorenzo the Elder0 decades - 92Koca Davud Pashanot measured-
- 93
Niccolò Albergati21 decades - 94Juan de Bermúdez15 decades
- 95
Fernando I, Duke of Braganza0 decades - 96
Henricus Martellus Germanus0 decades - 97
Francesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua0 decades - 98
Isabella of Braganza, Lady of Reguengos de Monsaraz0 decades - 99Hadim Ali Pasha0 decades
- 100Alonso de Salazar21 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.