← 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
- 26Rustichello da Pisa11 decades
- 27
Ibn al-Khatib0 decades - 28
Süleyman Paşa0 decades - 29
John of Ruysbroeck0 decades - 30
Cangrande I della Scala13 decades - 31
Giovanni Villani17 decades - 32
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourgnot measured- - 33
Yoshida Kenkō0 decades - 34
Don Juan Manuel20 decades - 35Eustache Deschamps22 decades
- 36Abulfeda18 decades
- 37
Longchenpa3 decades - 38
Milica Hrebeljanovićnot measured- - 39
Dafydd ap Gwilym9 decades - 40
Song Lian1 decades - 41
Gaston III, Count of Foixnot measured- - 42Zhou Daguannot measured-
- 43
Jacob ben Asher17 decades - 44
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembrokenot measured- - 45
Sayyid Ali Hamadani0 decades - 46
Bande Nawaz0 decades - 47
Nicholas Cabasilas0 decades - 48
Şeyh Bedreddin Simavinot measured- - 49
Martín Codax8 decades - 50Köse Mihal0 decades
- 51
Fazlallah Astarabadi0 decades - 52
Fang Xiaorunot measured- - 53
Kadi Burhan al-Din0 decades - 54Hồ Quý Ly0 decades
- 55
John Mandeville22 decades - 56
Ubayd Zakani0 decades - 57
Maria de Luna22 decades - 58
Empress Xunot measured- - 59
Geoffroi de Charny1 decades - 60
Hamdallah Mustawfi0 decades - 61
Franco Sacchetti22 decades - 62
Nimetullah-ı Velinot measured- - 63
Winrich von Kniprode0 decades - 64
Andrew Corsini22 decades - 65
Jefimija0 decades - 66Shihab al-Umarinot measured-
- 67
Ma Zhiyuan6 decades - 68
John Barbour19 decades - 69
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorlandnot measured- - 70Theodore I1 decades
- 71
Anselm Turmeda0 decades - 72Shabestarinot measured-
- 73
Al-Nuwayri0 decades - 74
Cecco d'Ascoli0 decades - 75
Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husain al-'Iraqinot measured- - 76
Jeong Mong-ju0 decades - 77
Tommaso Mocenigo0 decades - 78
Ramon Muntaner0 decades - 79Zarkashi0 decades
- 80Turahan Bey0 decades
- 81
Gao Qi0 decades - 82
Stephen Constantine of Serbianot measured- - 83
Wassaf2 decades - 84Kalonymus ben Kalonymusnot measured-
- 85
Michele Steno2 decades - 86
Hacı Bayram-ı Velinot measured- - 87
Kitabatake Chikafusa0 decades - 88
Firuzabadi0 decades - 89
Pero López de Ayala0 decades - 90
Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi0 decades - 91
Paul of Burgos0 decades - 92
Ranulf Higden0 decades - 93Jacopo Alighieri18 decades
- 94
Euthymius of Tarnovonot measured- - 95Ibn Al Ouardynot measured-
- 96Thomas Walsingham20 decades
- 97
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton5 decades - 98Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pashanot measured-
- 99Peter of Dusburg0 decades
- 100
Prokop of Moravianot measured-
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.