← 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 - 26
Mahmud Pasha3 decades - 27
Abu Sa'id Mirza0 decades - 28
Andrea del Castagno22 decades - 29
Nicholas of Flüe14 decades - 30
Sesshū Tōyō0 decades - 31
Jacquetta of Luxembourg0 decades - 32
Go-Hanazono0 decades - 33
Blanche II of Navarrenot measured- - 34
Qaitbaynot measured- - 35
Albert VI, Archduke of Austria22 decades - 36
Ladislaus Hunyadi0 decades - 37
Charles, Prince of Viana22 decades - 38
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta22 decades - 39
Dieric Bouts0 decades - 40
Jan Długosz0 decades - 41
Laonikos Chalkokondyles0 decades - 42
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolknot measured- - 43Sayyid Alà-ad-Din Àlam-Xahnot measured-
- 44
Georg von Peuerbach0 decades - 45Abdal-Latif Mirzanot measured-
- 46
John II of Cyprus0 decades - 47
John Argyropoulos0 decades - 48
Isabella of Coimbranot measured- - 49
Gaston IV of Foixnot measured- - 50
Lazar Brankovićnot measured- - 51
Anne of Cyprus0 decades - 52
Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medicinot measured- - 53
Louis IX22 decades - 54
Stefan Brankovićnot measured- - 55
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland22 decades - 56
Agostino Barbarigo0 decades - 57
João Vaz Corte-Real0 decades - 58
Pierre d'Aubusson22 decades - 59
Beatrice of Silvanot measured- - 60
Aristotile Fioravanti20 decades - 61
Gabriel Biel9 decades
- 62
Margaret of Austria22 decades - 63
Bartolomeo Platina0 decades - 64
Cristoforo Landino22 decades - 65
John I, Duke of Cleves22 decades - 66
Yunus Khan0 decades - 67
Hans Talhoffer0 decades - 68
Isabella, Princess of Tarantonot measured- - 69
Peter II, Duke of Brittany0 decades - 70
Isotta Nogarola0 decades - 71
Dimitrios Chalkokondylesnot measured- - 72
Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Sultan Hatunnot measured- - 73
Nicolas Jenson18 decades - 74
Antonio Vivarini0 decades - 75
Mirza Abul-Qasim Babur bin Baysonqornot measured- - 76
Agostino di Duccio14 decades - 77
Barthélemy d'Eyck0 decades - 78
Gonçalo Velho0 decades - 79
Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken22 decades
- 80
Jack Cade22 decades - 81
Eric II, Duke of Pomerania21 decades - 82
Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg22 decades - 83
Domenico di Michelino19 decades - 84
John II, Count of Nevers22 decades - 85Al-Mutawakkil IInot measured-
- 86Jeonghui0 decades
- 87
Ulubatlı Hasannot measured- - 88António de Nolinot measured-
- 89
George VIII of Georgianot measured- - 90
Zakariyya al-Ansari0 decades - 91
Diogo Gomes0 decades - 92
Juan Pacheconot measured- - 93
Hamza Bey0 decades - 94
Bernard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden21 decades - 95
John, Prince of Antiochnot measured- - 96Abd al-Haqq IInot measured-
- 97
Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg22 decades - 98
Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Polnot measured- - 99
Shō Ennot measured- - 100
John V, Count of Armagnac6 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.