← Fame through time1480-1489
The 1480s
Whose working lives fell in the 1480s. 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 1480s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Christopher Columbus21 decades - 2
Leonardo da Vinci22 decades - 3
Isabella I of Castile19 decades - 4
Richard III of England0 decades - 5
Ferdinand II of Aragon14 decades - 6
Amerigo Vespucci22 decades - 7
Hieronymus Bosch9 decades - 8
Sandro Botticelli22 decades - 9
Lorenzo de' Medici22 decades - 10
Girolamo Savonarola22 decades - 11
Mary of Burgundy22 decades - 12
Pietro Perugino22 decades - 13
John Cabot16 decades - 14
Bayezid II3 decades - 15
Domenico Ghirlandaio22 decades - 16
Pinturicchio22 decades - 17
Aldus Manutius22 decades - 18
Anne Neville6 decades - 19
Luca Signorelli22 decades - 20
Agnolo Poliziano22 decades - 21
Afonso de Albuquerque4 decades - 22
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba15 decades - 23
James III of Scotland0 decades - 24
Diogo Cão0 decades - 25
Alfonso II of Naples3 decades - 26
Veit Stoss21 decades - 27
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of Yorknot measured- - 28
Juan de la Cosa21 decades - 29
Saint Casimir0 decades - 30
Clarice Orsini22 decades - 31
Giuliano da Sangallo22 decades - 32
Philippe de Commines18 decades - 33Galal al-Din el-Suyutinot measured-
- 34
Axayacatl14 decades - 35
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples0 decades - 36
Margaret of York11 decades - 37
Catherine Cornaro1 decades - 38
Gülbahar Hatun0 decades - 39
René II of Lorraine15 decades - 40
Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland9 decades - 41
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales0 decades - 42
Francisco de Almeida1 decades - 43
Catherine of Genoa21 decades - 44
Piero Soderini22 decades - 45
Marfa Boretskaya13 decades - 46
Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria0 decades - 47
Eberhard I, Duke of Württembergnot measured- - 48
Diogo Dias0 decades - 49
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzādnot measured- - 50
Marko Marulić10 decades - 51
Nicolás de Ovando20 decades - 52
Frederick IV of Naplesnot measured- - 53
Heinrich Isaac0 decades - 54
Pedro Berruguete22 decades - 55
Juan de Flandes13 decades - 56
Ippolita Maria Sforza8 decades - 57
Andreas Palaiologos0 decades - 58
Philip, Elector Palatinenot measured- - 59
Ahuitzotl8 decades - 60
Abraham Zacuto10 decades - 61
Pêro da Covilhã0 decades - 62
Jeanne Hachette22 decades - 63
Kara Ahmed Pasha0 decades - 64
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckinghamnot measured- - 65Gedik Ahmed Pasha0 decades
- 66
Bona of Savoy5 decades - 67
Meñli I Giraynot measured- - 68
Muhammad Shaybani0 decades - 69
Francis Phoebus of Navarrenot measured- - 70
Gaspar Corte-Real0 decades - 71
Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara22 decades - 72
Sankardev0 decades - 73
Chenghua Emperor0 decades - 74
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy0 decades - 75
Albert Brudzewski0 decades - 76
João de Nóvoanot measured- - 77
Prospero Colonna22 decades - 78Francesco Botticini10 decades
- 79
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo0 decades - 80
Francesco Francia10 decades - 81
Charles IV, Duke of Anjou0 decades - 82
Giovanni Santi21 decades - 83Marin Barleti0 decades
- 84
Alexander Svirsky0 decades - 85
Christopher I, Margrave of Baden19 decades - 86
Alexander Agricolanot measured- - 87
Margaret of Foixnot measured- - 88
Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples0 decades - 89
Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk4 decades - 90
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo0 decades - 91
Sidonie of Poděbradynot measured- - 92
Ercole de' Roberti0 decades - 93Çiçek Hatunnot measured-
- 94
Shaykh Haydar0 decades - 95Kemal Reis0 decades
- 96Pier Luigi de Borgianot measured-
- 97Deposed Queen Yunnot measured-
- 98
John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln11 decades - 99
Claudine, Lady of Monaconot measured- - 100
William Warham8 decades
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active, around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world's Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person's own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person's own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.