← 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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry VI of England0 decades - 2
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 3
Tomás de Torquemada22 decades - 4
Piero della Francesca22 decades - 5
Pope Paul II11 decades - 6
Louis XI of France8 decades - 7
Ladislaus the Posthumous12 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
Cecily Neville, Duchess of Yorknot measured- - 16
Vasily II of Moscow0 decades - 17
Mara Branković0 decades - 18
Uzun Hasan2 decades - 19
George of Poděbrady0 decades - 20
Jean Fouquet3 decades - 21
Danjong of Joseonnot measured- - 22
Francis of Paola0 decades - 23
Jingtai Emperornot measured- - 24
Giovanni Giustiniani3 decades - 25
Benozzo Gozzoli22 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.