← 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
Jan Hus9 decades - 2
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola22 decades - 3
Rita of Cascia19 decades - 4
Nicholas of Cusa13 decades - 5
Luca Pacioli22 decades - 6
Marsilio Ficino22 decades - 7
Bernardino of Siena22 decades - 8
Agnolo Poliziano22 decades - 9
Johann Reuchlin17 decades - 10
Regiomontanus22 decades - 11
Antonio de Nebrija22 decades - 12
Isaac Abrabanel22 decades - 13
Poggio Bracciolini21 decades - 14
Ravidas5 decades - 15
Ramananda11 decades - 16
Gennadius Scholarius0 decades - 17
Mark of Ephesus6 decades - 18
Basilios Bessarion0 decades - 19
Albert Brudzewski0 decades - 20
Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli22 decades - 21
Jerome of Prague17 decades - 22Nilakantha Somayaji0 decades
- 23
Pietro Pomponazzi22 decades - 24
Abraham Zacuto10 decades - 25
Conrad Celtes1 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.