← 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 - 26
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples0 decades - 27
Theodoros II Palaiologosnot measured- - 28
Georg von Peuerbach0 decades - 29
George of Trebizond11 decades - 30
Rodolphus Agricola21 decades - 31Joseph Albo22 decades
- 32
Judah Leon Abravanel18 decades
- 33
Cristoforo Landino22 decades - 34
Theodoros Gaza0 decades - 35
Francesco Filelfo22 decades - 36Han Myŏnghoenot measured-
- 37Yangnyeong0 decades
- 38
Guru Jambheshwar0 decades - 39
Johannes Widmann2 decades - 40
Benedikt Kotruljević6 decades - 41
Annius of Viterbo4 decades - 42
Nilus of Sora0 decades - 43
Lawrence Giustiniani0 decades - 44Raymond of Sabunde2 decades
- 45
Julius Pomponius Laetus0 decades - 46Nicolas Chuquet0 decades
- 47
Sin Sukchu0 decades - 48
Kim Chong-jik0 decades - 49Parameshvara0 decades
- 50
Bernardine of Feltre0 decades - 51George Amiroutzes0 decades
- 52
Stanisław Kazimierczyknot measured- - 53
Ermolao Barbaro1 decades - 54Uhwudongnot measured-
- 55
Amadeus of Portugal0 decades - 56
Yahya al-Shirvani al-Bakubinot measured- - 57Theophilos Palaiologos0 decades
- 58
Niccolò Perotti0 decades - 59
Chen Baisha2 decades - 60
Paweł Włodkowic0 decades - 61
Paul of Venice1 decades - 62
Ulrich Zasius0 decades - 63Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qalaṣādīnot measured-
- 64
Elia del Medigo12 decades - 65
Prince Hyoryeongnot measured- - 66
Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeusnot measured- - 67Giorgio Valla0 decades
- 68Sripadaraja0 decades
- 69
Johannes Nider0 decades - 70Elijah Mizrachi0 decades
- 71
Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 72
Gregory of Sanok0 decades - 73
Ibn Ghazi al-Maknasinot measured- - 74Muhammad ibn Falah0 decades
- 75
Manavala Mamunigal0 decades - 76
Hızır Bey0 decades - 77Prathivadhi Bhayankaram Annangaracharyanot measured-
- 78John of Segovia1 decades
- 79Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja0 decades
- 80
Filippo Beroaldo4 decades - 81
Robert Gaguin1 decades - 82
John of Głogównot measured- - 83
Paul of Middelburg0 decades - 84
Marcantonio Zimara7 decades - 85Svātmārāma0 decades
- 86
Jakob Köbel4 decades - 87Yaʿīsh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Umawīnot measured-
- 88John Chortasmenos0 decades
- 89
Catherine de Pallanzanot measured- - 90
Jan Standonck0 decades - 91John of Falkenberg0 decades
- 92Yohanan Alemanno0 decades
- 93Han Hwaknot measured-
- 94Andronicus Callistus0 decades
- 95Fazio Cardano0 decades
- 96
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto19 decades - 97
Peter of Ravenna0 decades - 98
Makhdoom Bilawal0 decades - 99
Stanisław of Skarbimierz0 decades - 100Hieronymus Balbus0 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.