← Fame through time1470-1479
The 1470s
Whose working lives fell in the 1470s. 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 1470s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Julius II22 decades - 2
Ivan III of Russia8 decades - 3
Edward IV of England0 decades - 4
Matthias Corvinus22 decades - 5
Donato Bramante22 decades - 6
Pope Pius III0 decades - 7
Elizabeth Woodville20 decades - 8
Luca Pacioli22 decades - 9
Andrea del Verrocchio22 decades - 10
Lady Margaret Beaufort18 decades - 11
Giuliano de' Medici22 decades - 12
Hans Memling19 decades - 13
Regiomontanus22 decades - 14
Kabirnot measured- - 15
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros20 decades - 16
Galeazzo Maria Sforza22 decades - 17
Simonetta Vespucci10 decades - 18
Antonio de Nebrija22 decades - 19
Matteo Maria Boiardo22 decades - 20
Charlotte of Savoy0 decades - 21
Martin Schongauer21 decades - 22
Edward of Westminster1 decades - 23
Isaac Abrabanel22 decades - 24
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarencenot measured- - 25
Joan of Portugal22 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.