← 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 - 26
Mahmud Pasha3 decades - 27
Abu Sa'id Mirza0 decades - 28
Nicholas of Flüe14 decades - 29
Jacquetta of Luxembourg0 decades - 30
Andrea del Castagno22 decades - 31
Go-Hanazono0 decades - 32
Sesshū Tōyō0 decades - 33
Charles, Prince of Viana22 decades - 34
Ladislaus Hunyadi0 decades - 35
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta22 decades - 36
Qaitbaynot measured- - 37
Blanche II of Navarrenot measured- - 38
Albert VI, Archduke of Austrianot measured- - 39
Dieric Bouts0 decades - 40
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolknot measured- - 41Sayyid Alà-ad-Din Àlam-Xahnot measured-
- 42
Jan Długosz0 decades - 43
Laonikos Chalkokondyles0 decades - 44Abdal-Latif Mirzanot measured-
- 45
John II of Cyprus0 decades - 46
Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medicinot measured- - 47
Gaston IV of Foixnot measured- - 48
Lazar Brankovićnot measured- - 49
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberlandnot measured- - 50
Anne of Cyprus0 decades - 51
Stefan Brankovićnot measured- - 52
Louis IXnot measured- - 53
Kumbha of Mewar0 decades - 54
Isabella of Coimbranot measured- - 55
Beatrice of Silvanot measured- - 56
Georg von Peuerbach0 decades - 57
John Argyropoulos0 decades - 58Yunus Khan0 decades
- 59
John I, Duke of Clevesnot measured- - 60
Hans Talhoffer0 decades - 61
Aristotile Fioravanti20 decades - 62
Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Sultan Hatunnot measured- - 63
Margaret of Austrianot measured- - 64
Agostino Barbarigo0 decades - 65
Pierre d'Aubusson22 decades - 66
Nicolas Jenson18 decades - 67
Dimitrios Chalkokondylesnot measured- - 68
João Vaz Corte-Real0 decades - 69
Isabella, Princess of Tarantonot measured- - 70
Ulubatlı Hasannot measured- - 71
Gabriel Biel9 decades
- 72
Bartolomeo Platina0 decades - 73
Jack Cade22 decades - 74Jeonghui0 decades
- 75
Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrückennot measured-
- 76
John II, Count of Neversnot measured- - 77
Isotta Nogarola0 decades - 78
Cristoforo Landino22 decades - 79Juan Pacheconot measured-
- 80
Domenico di Michelino19 decades - 81
Hamza Bey0 decades - 82Han Myŏnghoenot measured-
- 83
Helena Palaiologina0 decades - 84
Mirza Abul-Qasim Babur bin Baysonqornot measured- - 85
John of Sahagún14 decades - 86
Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 87
Shō Ennot measured- - 88
Zakariyya al-Ansari0 decades - 89
Mechthild of the Palatinate2 decades - 90
Agostino di Duccio14 decades - 91
Eric II, Duke of Pomeranianot measured- - 92
John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolknot measured- - 93
Gonçalo Velho0 decades - 94
Barthélemy d'Eyck0 decades - 95
Peter II, Duke of Brittany0 decades - 96
Niccolò Antonio Colantonionot measured- - 97
Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Polnot measured- - 98
John, Prince of Antiochnot measured- - 99
Tayisung Khan Toghtoa Bukhanot measured- - 100
Diogo Gomes0 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.