← 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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Catherine of Siena18 decades - 2
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Orhannot measured- - 3
John of Gaunt22 decades - 4
Robert II of Scotland0 decades - 5
Ivan I of Moscow0 decades - 6
Władysław II Jagiełło0 decades - 7
Casimir III the Great0 decades - 8
Robert III of Scotland0 decades - 9
John I of Portugal0 decades - 10
Manuel II Palaiologos0 decades - 11
Alauddin Khalji1 decades - 12
Philip the Bold0 decades - 13
Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 14
Owain Glyndŵr0 decades - 15
Dmitry Donskoy0 decades - 16
Peter I of Portugal0 decades - 17
John I of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 18
Anne of Bohemianot measured- - 19
Charles, Count of Valoisnot measured- - 20
Elizabeth of Aragonnot measured- - 21
Joan II of Navarre0 decades - 22
Lazar of Serbia0 decades - 23
Inês de Castro0 decades - 24
Joanna I of Naples0 decades - 25
Andrew III of Hungary0 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.