← Fame through time1450-1459
The 1450s
Whose working lives fell in the 1450s. 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 1450s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry VI of England0 decades - 2
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 3
Tomás de Torquemada22 decades - 4
Piero della Francesca22 decades - 5
Pope Paul II11 decades - 6
Ladislaus the Posthumous12 decades - 7
Louis XI of France8 decades - 8
William Caxton22 decades - 9
Agnès Sorel0 decades - 10
Ferdinand I of Naples16 decades - 11
Sejo of Joseonnot measured- - 12
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici11 decades - 13
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmondnot measured- - 14
Federico da Montefeltro22 decades - 15
Uzun Hasan2 decades - 16
Cecily Neville, Duchess of Yorknot measured- - 17
Mara Branković0 decades - 18
Vasily II of Moscow0 decades - 19
George of Poděbrady0 decades - 20
Jean Fouquet3 decades - 21
Danjong of Joseonnot measured- - 22
Francis of Paola0 decades - 23
Giovanni Giustiniani3 decades - 24
Jingtai Emperornot measured- - 25
Benozzo Gozzoli22 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.