← 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
Nicholas of Cusa13 decades - 2
Regiomontanus22 decades - 3
Conrad Celtes1 decades - 4
Johannes Widmann2 decades - 5
Ulrich Zasius0 decades - 6
Johannes Nider0 decades - 7
Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 8
Jakob Köbel4 decades - 9Jodocus Trutfetter0 decades
- 10
Peter Luder0 decades - 11Paul Scriptoris0 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.