← 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
Leon Battista Alberti22 decades - 2
Filippo Brunelleschi22 decades - 3
Donato Bramante22 decades - 4
Giuliano da Sangallo22 decades - 5
Filaretenot measured- - 6
Aristotile Fioravanti20 decades - 7
Bernardo Rossellino0 decades - 8
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder10 decades - 9
Giovanni Giocondo19 decades - 10
Benedetto da Maiano22 decades - 11
Antonio Manetti22 decades - 12
Mauro Codussi6 decades - 13
Anton Pilgram15 decades - 14
Luciano Laurana0 decades - 15
Baccio Pontelli0 decades - 16
Andrea Bregno13 decades - 17
Baccio d'Agnolo22 decades - 18
Juan Guas18 decades - 19Atik Sinan0 decades
- 20
Benedikt Rejt5 decades - 21
Andrea Aleksinot measured- - 22William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithnessnot measured-
- 23
Guillem Sagrera1 decades - 24
Simón de Colonia14 decades - 25Kuai Xiang0 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.