1400–1499
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Mehmed the Conqueror1432–1481 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures2 decades - 2
Murad II1404–1451 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures11 decades - 3
Bayezid II1447–1512 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures3 decades - 4
Mehmed I1386–1421 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades - 5
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Uzun Hasan1423–1478 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures2 decades - 6HHHüma Hatun1400–1449 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades
- 7EHEmine Hatun1398–1449 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades
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Süleyman Çelebi1377–1411 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades - 9
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Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Sultan Hatun1415–1500 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 10
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Sittişah Mükrime Hatun1435–1467 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 11
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Stefan Branković1417–1476 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 12
Gülşah Hatun1433–1487 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 13
Bülbül Hatun1452–1515 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 14
Qutlugh Nigar Khanumdied 1505 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 15DHDevletşah Hatun1365–1414 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 16ASAynışah Sultan1463–1514 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 17HHHüsnüşah Hatun1454–1513 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 18HHHafsa Hatun1380–1403 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades
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Melik Arslan Beydied 1466 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.