← Fame through time1300-1399
The 14th century
Whose working lives fell in the 14th century. 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 14th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Dante Alighieri22 decades - 2
Timur22 decades - 3
William Wallace22 decades - 4
Geoffrey Chaucer22 decades - 5
Ibn Battuta10 decades - 6
Edward III of England11 decades - 7
Petrarch22 decades - 8
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 9
Giotto22 decades - 10
Catherine of Siena18 decades - 11
Philip IV of France5 decades - 12
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Orhannot measured- - 13
Robert the Bruce22 decades - 14
Ibn Khaldun16 decades - 15
Edward II of England0 decades - 16
Bayezid I0 decades - 17
Giovanni Boccaccio22 decades - 18
Hongwu Emperor7 decades - 19
John Wycliffe19 decades - 20
Edward the Black Prince21 decades - 21
Charles V of France1 decades - 22
Hafeznot measured- - 23
William of Ockham17 decades - 24
Murad I1 decades - 25
Philip VI of France0 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.