← 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
Isabella I of Castile19 decades - 2
Pope Alexander VI22 decades - 3
Ferdinand II of Aragon14 decades - 4
Juan Ponce de León20 decades - 5
Tomás de Torquemada22 decades - 6
Henry IV of Castile22 decades - 7
Pope Callixtus III0 decades - 8
Alfonso V of Aragon21 decades - 9
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal0 decades - 10
John II of Aragonnot measured- - 11
Ferdinand I of Aragon17 decades - 12
Ferdinand I of Naples16 decades - 13
Muhammad XII of Granada0 decades - 14
Joanna la Beltraneja22 decades - 15
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John II of Castile0 decades - 16
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba15 decades - 17
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros20 decades - 18
Enrique III of Castile0 decades - 19
John, Prince of Asturias0 decades - 20
Antonio de Nebrija22 decades - 21
Bartholomew Columbus16 decades - 22
Nicolás de Ovando20 decades - 23
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera22 decades - 24
Pedro Berruguete22 decades - 25
Ascanio Sforza13 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.