← Fame through time1400-1499
The 15th century
Whose working lives fell in the 15th 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 15th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jean Hey3 decades - 2
Jean Bourdichon14 decades - 3
Jean Malouel8 decades - 4
Enguerrand Quarton8 decades - 5
Jean Colombe0 decades - 6
Simon Marmion14 decades - 7
Master of Boucicaut4 decades - 8
Ludovico Brea11 decades - 9
Robinet Testard0 decades - 10
Stefano da Verona0 decades - 11
André Abellon0 decades - 12
Nicolas Dipre1 decades - 13
Antoine Le Moiturier0 decades - 14
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Brussels Initials Master0 decades - 15
Antoine de Lonhy3 decades - 16
Nicolás Francésnot measured- - 17Lorenzo Mercadante0 decades
- 18
Dunois Master0 decades - 19
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Coëtivy Master1 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.