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
- 1
Mahmud Pasha1420–1474 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers3 decades - 2
Akşemseddin1389–1459 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 3MÇMustafa Çelebi1380–1422 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 4HAHersekzade Ahmed Pasha1455–1517 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 5
Idris Bitlisi1452–1520 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 6İTİbn Tanrıverdi1410–1470 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 7GHGevherhan Hatun1460–1514 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 8
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Aşıkpaşazade1400–1484 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 9
Molla Gürani1406–1488 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 10MHMihri Hatun1460–1506 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 11
Balım Sultan1457–1517 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 12TBTursun Beg1420–1499 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 13
Ala al-Din Ali ibn Ahmad Djamali1445–1526 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 14
Bursalı Ahmed Paşa1426–1496 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 15MHMela Huseynê Bateyî1417–1491 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 16NNeşri1450–1520 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 17
İsa Necati1444–1509 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 18ŞŞükrullah1388–1488 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 19IAIbrāhīm al-Ḥalabī1460–1549 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 20MEMerkez Efendi1463–1552 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 21ZHZeynep Hatun1420–1474 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 22
Ali al-Bistami1403–1470 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 23HBHüsamettin Bitlisi1406–1490 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot 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.