← 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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Dante Alighieri22 decades - 2
Timur22 decades - 3
William Wallace22 decades - 4
Geoffrey Chaucer22 decades - 5
Ibn Battuta10 decades - 6
Edward III of England11 decades - 7
Petrarch22 decades - 8
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 9
Giotto22 decades - 10
Catherine of Siena18 decades - 11
Philip IV of France5 decades - 12
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Orhannot measured- - 13
Robert the Bruce22 decades - 14
Ibn Khaldun16 decades - 15
Edward II of England0 decades - 16
Bayezid I0 decades - 17
Giovanni Boccaccio22 decades - 18
Hongwu Emperor7 decades - 19
John Wycliffe19 decades - 20
Edward the Black Prince21 decades - 21
Charles V of France1 decades - 22
Hafeznot measured- - 23
William of Ockham17 decades - 24
Murad I1 decades - 25
Philip VI of France0 decades - 26
John of Gaunt22 decades - 27
John II of France0 decades - 28
Louis X of France0 decades - 29
Jan Žižka0 decades - 30
Charles IV of France0 decades - 31
Isabella of France11 decades - 32
Margaret I of Denmark0 decades - 33
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia0 decades - 34
Yongle Emperor0 decades - 35
Christine de Pizan7 decades - 36
David II of Scotland0 decades - 37
Jadwiga of Poland0 decades - 38
Robert II of Scotland0 decades - 39
Ivan I of Moscow0 decades - 40
Duns Scotus22 decades - 41
Philip V of France0 decades - 42
Władysław II Jagiełło0 decades - 43
Nicolas Flamel22 decades - 44
Jacques de Molay22 decades - 45
Bridget of Sweden3 decades - 46
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 47
Musa I of Mali0 decades - 48
Pope Urban VI10 decades - 49
John of Bohemia22 decades - 50
Saint Roch10 decades - 51
Casimir III the Great0 decades - 52
Robert III of Scotland0 decades - 53
John I of Portugal0 decades - 54
Pope Gregory XI22 decades - 55
Louis I of Hungary0 decades - 56
John I of France22 decades - 57
Andrei Rublev4 decades - 58
Julian of Norwich9 decades - 59
Manuel II Palaiologos0 decades - 60
Pope Gregory XII0 decades - 61
Taejo of Joseonnot measured- - 62
Alauddin Khalji1 decades - 63
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 64
John of Nepomuk1 decades - 65
Philip the Bold0 decades - 66
Peter of Castilenot measured- - 67
Philippa of Hainault12 decades - 68
Toghon Temür0 decades - 69
Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 70
Temür Khan0 decades - 71
Owain Glyndŵr0 decades - 72
Muhammad bin Tughluq6 decades - 73
Dmitry Donskoy0 decades - 74
Wat Tyler22 decades - 75
Henry II of Castile22 decades - 76
Stefan Dušan0 decades - 77
Joan I of Navarre0 decades - 78
John V Palaiologos0 decades - 79
Ibn Kathir3 decades - 80
Peter I of Portugal0 decades - 81
Mary, Queen of Hungarynot measured- - 82
Vincent Ferrer22 decades - 83
Andronikos III Palaiologos0 decades - 84
Guillaume de Machaut19 decades - 85
Pope Clement VI18 decades - 86
Charles I of Hungary0 decades - 87
Pope Urban V22 decades - 88
John VI Kantakouzenos0 decades - 89
Antipope Benedict XIII0 decades - 90
John I of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 91
Anne of Bohemianot measured- - 92
Gregory Palamas6 decades - 93
Charles II of Navarre1 decades - 94
Tokhtamyshnot measured- - 95
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia0 decades - 96
Ghazan19 decades - 97
Charles, Count of Valoisnot measured- - 98
Philippa of Lancaster1 decades - 99
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia0 decades - 100
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya0 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.