← Fame through time1460-1469
The 1460s
Whose working lives fell in the 1460s. 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 1460s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Vlad the Impaler3 decades - 2
Pope Alexander VI22 decades - 3
Mehmed the Conqueror2 decades - 4
Charles the Bold22 decades - 5
François Villon20 decades - 6
Margaret of Anjou22 decades - 7
James II of Scotland0 decades - 8
Henry IV of Castile22 decades - 9
Andrea Mantegna22 decades - 10
Christian I of Denmark0 decades - 11
Pope Innocent VIII20 decades - 12
Giovanni Bellini22 decades - 13
Marsilio Ficino22 decades - 14
Antonello da Messina22 decades - 15
Casimir IV Jagiellon0 decades - 16
Afonso V of Portugal0 decades - 17
Richard Neville21 decades - 18
Emperor Yingzong of Mingnot measured- - 19
Stephen III of Moldavianot measured- - 20
Gentile Bellini22 decades - 21
Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empressnot measured- - 22
Carlo Crivelli22 decades - 23
Jasper Tudor13 decades - 24
Leonor I of Navarrenot measured- - 25
Antonio del Pollaiuolo20 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.