← 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
Leonardo da Vinci22 decades - 2
Hieronymus Bosch9 decades - 3
Sandro Botticelli22 decades - 4
Donatello22 decades - 5
Jan van Eyck16 decades - 6
Fra Angelico21 decades - 7
Piero della Francesca22 decades - 8
Masaccio22 decades - 9
Andrea Mantegna22 decades - 10
Giovanni Bellini22 decades - 11
Antonello da Messina22 decades - 12
Andrea del Verrocchio22 decades - 13
Pietro Perugino22 decades - 14
Filippo Lippi22 decades - 15
Domenico Ghirlandaio22 decades - 16
Rogier van der Weyden13 decades - 17
Paolo Uccello22 decades - 18
Xuande Emperor0 decades - 19
Pinturicchio22 decades - 20
Hans Memling19 decades - 21
Lorenzo Ghiberti22 decades - 22
Catherine of Bologna21 decades - 23
Luca Signorelli22 decades - 24
Filippino Lippi21 decades - 25
Tilman Riemenschneider12 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.