← 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
Johannes Gutenberg17 decades - 2
Basil Valentine22 decades - 3
Henricus Martellus Germanus0 decades - 4
Johannes Stöffler2 decades - 5Johannes Grant0 decades
- 6
Johannes Stabius0 decades - 7Johannes von Gmunden7 decades
- 8
Johannes Engel0 decades - 9Johannes Tolhopffnot 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.