← 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
Dante Alighieri22 decades - 2
Geoffrey Chaucer22 decades - 3
Ibn Khaldun16 decades - 4
Bayezid I0 decades - 5
Giovanni Boccaccio22 decades - 6
Hafeznot measured- - 7
Christine de Pizan7 decades - 8
Bridget of Sweden3 decades - 9
Ibn Kathir3 decades - 10
Luo Guanzhong7 decades - 11
Jean Froissart22 decades - 12
James II of Aragon0 decades - 13Zeami Motokiyo0 decades
- 14
Al-Dhahabi0 decades - 15
Shi Nai'an5 decades - 16
Juan Ruiz0 decades - 17
Johannes Tauler0 decades - 18
Namdevnot measured- - 19
William Langland15 decades - 20Lalleshwari0 decades
- 21
John Gower22 decades - 22
Vidyapati10 decades - 23
Marino Faliero17 decades - 24
Tannhäuser22 decades - 25Al-Maqrizi0 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.