← 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
Skanderbeg7 decades - 2
Murad II11 decades - 3
Bayezid II3 decades - 4
Mehmed the Conqueror2 decades - 5
Mehmed I0 decades - 6
Uzun Hasan2 decades - 7Hüma Hatun0 decades
- 8
Süleyman Çelebi0 decades - 9Emine Hatun0 decades
- 10
Sittişah Mükrime Hatunnot measured- - 11
Stefan Brankovićnot measured- - 12
Gülşah Hatunnot measured- - 13
Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Sultan Hatunnot measured- - 14
Qutlugh Nigar Khanumnot measured- - 15
Bülbül Hatunnot measured- - 16Aynışah Sultannot measured-
- 17Devletşah Hatunnot measured-
- 18Hafsa Hatun0 decades
- 19Hüsnüşah Hatunnot measured-
- 20
Melik Arslan Beynot 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.