← 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 - 26Yejong of Joseonnot measured-
- 27
Heinrich Kramer1 decades
- 28
Alfonso22 decades - 29
Zağan Paşanot measured- - 30
Juana Enríqueznot measured- - 31
Lucrezia Tornabuoni22 decades - 32
Radu cel Frumos0 decades - 33
Dorothea of Brandenburgnot measured- - 34
Sigismund, Archduke of Austrianot measured- - 35
Stephen Tomašević of Bosnianot measured- - 36
Bianca Maria Visconti22 decades - 37
Mary of Guelders1 decades - 38
Cosimo Tura14 decades - 39
Ercole I d'Este0 decades - 40
Catherine of Bosnia0 decades - 41
Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu0 decades - 42
Luigi Pulci22 decades - 43
Ahmad ibn Mājidnot measured- - 44Alvise Cadamosto15 decades
- 45
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somersetnot measured- - 46
Yolande of Valois18 decades - 47
Michael Wolgemut14 decades - 48
Isabella of Bourbon0 decades - 49
John II, Duke of Lorraine22 decades - 50
Frederick I22 decades - 51
Edmund, Earl of Rutlandnot measured- - 52
John II, Duke of Bourbon14 decades - 53
Maria of Cleves0 decades - 54
Vlad Călugărulnot measured- - 55
Antoine Busnois0 decades - 56
Pedro González de Mendoza22 decades - 57
Yolande of Anjou17 decades - 58
Janus Pannonius1 decades - 59
Sittişah Mükrime Hatunnot measured- - 60
Francesco Laurana14 decades - 61
Alesso Baldovinetti21 decades - 62
Nuno Gonçalves0 decades - 63
Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia17 decades - 64
Charles II, Duke of Bourbon0 decades - 65
Justus van Gent13 decades - 66
Catherine of Poděbradynot measured- - 67
Shen Zhou1 decades - 68John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu22 decades
- 69
Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu0 decades - 70
Shaykh Junayd0 decades - 71
William III22 decades - 72
Janybek Khannot measured- - 73
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter22 decades - 74
Giovanni Giocondo19 decades - 75Karai Khannot measured-
- 76
Gülşah Hatunnot measured- - 77
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings11 decades - 78
Antonio Grimani0 decades - 79
Eleanor of Scotland0 decades - 80
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Nur Devletnot measured- - 81
Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany0 decades - 82Uhwudongnot measured-
- 83
Iovianus Pontanus0 decades - 84
Nilus of Sora0 decades - 85
Oliviero Carafa0 decades - 86
Desiderio da Settignano22 decades - 87
Donika Kastrioti0 decades - 88
Helena Palaiologina of the Moreanot measured- - 89
Peter, Constable of Portugalnot measured- - 90
Fernando II, Duke of Braganza0 decades - 91
Julius Pomponius Laetus0 decades - 92
Jeanne de Laval0 decades - 93
Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick0 decades - 94
Pierfrancesco the Eldernot measured- - 95
Alanus de Rupe0 decades - 96
Kanō Masanobunot measured- - 97
Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe0 decades - 98
Bencomonot measured- - 99
Carlo de' Medici0 decades - 100
Kim Chong-jik0 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.