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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Sultan Cem1459–1495 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 2
Zağan Paşa1450–1464 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 3
Piri Mehmed Paşa1458–1532 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 4ÇHÇandarlı Halil Pashadied 1453 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 5
Kara Ahmed Pasha1450–1555 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 6GAGedik Ahmed Pasha1450–1482 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 7
İsa Çelebi1378–1403 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 8IPIshak Pasha1444–1487 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 9DKDespina Khatun1438–1507 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 10OOrkhan1412–1453 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 11KDKoca Davud Pasha1401–1498 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 12
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Mesih Pasha1401–1501 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 13
Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha1400–1429 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 14KMKaramani Mehmet Paşa1458–1481 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 15HAHadim Ali Pasha1401–1511 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 16HSHadim Sinan Pasha1459–1517 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 17IHImamzade Halil Pashadied 1413 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 18
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Yunus Pasha1450–1517 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 19
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Hayır Bey1464–1522 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 20IIIsa-Beg Isakovićborn 1401 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 21ŞŞahkulu1401–1511 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 22KMKoca Mehmed Nizamüddin Paşadied 1439 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 23
Hadım Şehabeddin Paşadied 1453 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 24SKSara Khatundied 1465 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades
- 25
Skender Pasha1434–1504 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 26HSHadim Suleiman Pashadied 1490 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured—
- 27
Iljas Mirahori1408–1512 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured— - 28NTNishandji Tadji-zade Dja'fer Çelebi1459–1515 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot 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.