← 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 - 26
Ibn al-Shatir0 decades - 27
Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukharinot measured- - 28
Pierre d'Ailly13 decades - 29
Madhavacharya0 decades - 30Taftazani0 decades
- 31
Michael of Cesena0 decades - 32Albertus de Saxonia0 decades
- 33
Taj al-Din al-Subkinot measured- - 34
Vedanta Desika4 decades - 35
Nicholas of Lyra21 decades - 36
Gregory of Tatevnot measured- - 37
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjaninot measured- - 38
Richard of Wallingford1 decades - 39Ahmad al-Qalqashandi0 decades
- 40Jayatirtha1 decades
- 41
Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmīnot measured- - 42
Francesc Eiximenis0 decades - 43
Cino da Pistoia3 decades - 44Nissim of Geronanot measured-
- 45
Haydar Amuli0 decades - 46
Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsennot measured- - 47Narayana Pandit0 decades
- 48
Symeon of Thessalonica0 decades - 49
Gregory of Rimini5 decades - 50
Walter Burley7 decades - 51
Nicholas of Autrecourt0 decades - 52Muhammad ibn Ajurrumnot measured-
- 53
Marsilius of Inghen0 decades - 54Durandus of Saint-Pourçain0 decades
- 55
Peter of Spain10 decades - 56Simeon ben Zemah Duran0 decades
- 57ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Ījīnot measured-
- 58
Chu Văn An0 decades - 59Walter Hilton9 decades
- 60
Petrus Aureolus13 decades - 61
Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburinot measured- - 62
Ibn Hisham Al-Ansarinot measured- - 63
Ya'qub al-Jarkhinot measured- - 64ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan Isnawīnot measured-
- 65Thomas of Erfurt7 decades
- 66
Peter Paludanusnot measured- - 67Joseph Caspi18 decades
- 68Zayn al-Din al-Amidinot measured-
- 69
Richard Swineshead0 decades - 70
Giovanni d'Andrea0 decades - 71Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi21 decades
- 72Francis of Mayrone0 decades
- 73
Antonius Andreas0 decades - 74Moses ben Joshua19 decades
- 75
Yi Saek0 decades - 76
William of Heytesbury0 decades - 77Jalal al-Din al-Qazwininot measured-
- 78
Zhao Youqinnot measured- - 79Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amulinot measured-
- 80Prochorus Cydones0 decades
- 81Isaac Aboab Inot measured-
- 82
Zhang Yanghao0 decades - 83Radulphus Brito0 decades
- 84Godfrey of Fontaines1 decades
- 85
Mạc Đĩnh Chinot measured- - 86
Berthold of Moosburg0 decades - 87
Kil Chae0 decades - 88
Orotnetsʻi Hovhannēs, Vardapetnot measured- - 89
Nicholas of Clamanges0 decades - 90Manuel Kalekas0 decades
- 91Isaac Albalag17 decades
- 92Walter Chatton0 decades
- 93Bonagratia of Bergamo0 decades
- 94John Dumbleton0 decades
- 95Blasius of Parma0 decades
- 96
Tomáš Štítný ze Štítnéhonot measured- - 97Shemariah of Negropont12 decades
- 98Richard Kilvington0 decades
- 99John of Mirecourt0 decades
- 100Demetrios Chrysoloras0 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.