← 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.
- 1
Petrarch22 decades - 2
John Wycliffe19 decades - 3
William of Ockham17 decades - 4
Duns Scotus22 decades - 5
Julian of Norwich9 decades - 6
Antipope Benedict XIII0 decades - 7
Gregory Palamas6 decades - 8
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya0 decades - 9
Tsongkhapa4 decades - 10
Nicole Oresme7 decades - 11Madhava of Sangamagrama0 decades
- 12
Jean Buridan0 decades - 13
Henry Suso13 decades - 14
Marsilius of Padua16 decades - 15
Elizabeth of Bohemia11 decades - 16
Gemistus Pletho1 decades - 17Hasdai Crescas19 decades
- 18
Catherine of Vadstena0 decades - 19
Barlaam of Seminara0 decades - 20
Liu Ji0 decades - 21
Manuel Chrysoloras5 decades - 22
Jeong Do-jeon0 decades - 23
Baldus de Ubaldis17 decades - 24
Bartolus de Saxoferrato22 decades - 25
Thomas Bradwardine6 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.