← 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 coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Julius II22 decades - 2
Kabirnot measured- - 3
Ivan III of Russia8 decades - 4
Edward IV of England0 decades - 5
Matthias Corvinus22 decades - 6
Elizabeth Woodvillenot measured- - 7
Lady Margaret Beaufortnot measured- - 8
Luca Pacioli22 decades - 9
Donato Bramante22 decades - 10
Andrea del Verrocchio22 decades - 11
Edward of Westminster1 decades - 12
Giuliano de' Medici22 decades - 13
Pope Pius III0 decades - 14
Simonetta Vespucci10 decades - 15
Hans Memling19 decades - 16
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros20 decades - 17
Galeazzo Maria Sforza22 decades - 18
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarencenot measured- - 19
Vannozza dei Cattanei5 decades - 20
Regiomontanus22 decades - 21
Antonio de Nebrija22 decades - 22
Ali-Shir Nava'i0 decades - 23
Isaac Abrabanel22 decades - 24
Joan of Portugal22 decades - 25
Matteo Maria Boiardo22 decades - 26
Francis II12 decades - 27
Martin Schongauer21 decades - 28
Ernest of Saxony22 decades - 29
Charlotte of Savoy0 decades - 30
Elisabeth of Habsburg0 decades - 31
Túpac Inca Yupanqui0 decades - 32
Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence0 decades - 33
Askia Muhammad I0 decades - 34
Hugo van der Goes10 decades - 35
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolknot measured- - 36
Albert III, Duke of Saxonynot measured- - 37
Go-Tsuchimikado0 decades - 38
Leonardo Loredan21 decades - 39
Simon of Trent0 decades - 40
Tizoc10 decades - 41Saad Baggas Boutarbpuchnot measured-
- 42
Girolamo Riario6 decades - 43
Filippo II, Duke of Savoy1 decades - 44
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy21 decades - 45
Charlotte, Queen of Cyprusnot measured- - 46
Francesco di Giorgio20 decades - 47
Ashikaga Yoshimasa0 decades - 48Ishak Pasha0 decades
- 49
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derbynot measured- - 50
Pedro Arias Dávila19 decades - 51
Martín Alonso Pinzón14 decades - 52
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon3 decades - 53
Melozzo da Forlì22 decades - 54
Hartmann Schedel1 decades - 55Nilakantha Somayaji0 decades
- 56James III of Cyprusnot measured-
- 57
João I of Kongonot measured- - 58
Husayn Bayqarah0 decades - 59
James II of Cyprus0 decades - 60
Sten Sture the Elder0 decades - 61Despina Khatun0 decades
- 62
Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrânnot measured- - 63
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers7 decades - 64
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolknot measured- - 65
Lê Thánh Tông0 decades - 66Abu al-Hasan Ali, Sultan of Granadanot measured-
- 67
Francesco del Cossa14 decades - 68
Al-Ashraf Qansuh Al-Ghurinot measured- - 69
Michael Pacher17 decades - 70
Cosimo Rosselli22 decades - 71
Andrea della Robbia22 decades - 72
Anne of York, Duchess of Exeternot measured- - 73
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio22 decades - 74
Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine11 decades - 75
Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque17 decades - 76
Charles de Valois, Duc de Berry9 decades - 77
Bartolomé Bermejo11 decades - 78
Hang Tuah8 decades - 79
Francesco de' Pazzi22 decades - 80
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolknot measured- - 81
Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somersetnot measured- - 82Konstantin Mihailović0 decades
- 83Jacob Sprenger0 decades
- 84
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier9 decades - 85
Marguerite de Bourbon22 decades - 86
Piero del Pollaiuolo11 decades - 87
Jorge Manrique5 decades - 88
Rodolphus Agricola21 decades - 89John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxfordnot measured-
- 90
Bernt Notke10 decades - 91
Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 92Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana0 decades
- 93
Hans Böhm13 decades - 94
Magdalena of Valoisnot measured- - 95
Insu21 decades - 96
Saint Angelina of Serbianot measured- - 97
Blind Harry17 decades - 98
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxonynot measured- - 99
Pietro Lombardo22 decades - 100
Johannes Tinctoris0 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.