← 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 - 26
Jean Fouquet3 decades - 27
Gentile Bellini22 decades - 28
Chenghua Emperor0 decades - 29
Pisanello22 decades - 30
Carlo Crivelli22 decades - 31
Robert Campin2 decades - 32
Benozzo Gozzoli22 decades - 33
Martin Schongauer21 decades - 34
Veit Stoss21 decades - 35
Gentile da Fabriano22 decades - 36
Piero di Cosimo22 decades - 37
Antonio del Pollaiuolo20 decades - 38
Luca della Robbia22 decades - 39
Andrea del Castagno22 decades - 40
Hugo van der Goes10 decades - 41
Masolino da Panicale22 decades - 42
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzādnot measured- - 43
Sesshū Tōyō0 decades - 44
Petrus Christus5 decades - 45
Gerard David11 decades - 46
Francesco di Giorgio20 decades - 47
Dieric Bouts0 decades - 48
Jacopo della Quercia22 decades - 49
Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano22 decades - 50
Stefan Lochner9 decades - 51
Cosimo Tura14 decades - 52
Domenico Veneziano22 decades - 53
Melozzo da Forlì22 decades - 54
Lorenzo di Credi22 decades - 55
Hubert van Eyck5 decades - 56
Michelozzo18 decades - 57
Michael Wolgemut14 decades - 58
Pedro Berruguete22 decades - 59
Jacopo Bellini0 decades - 60
Francesco del Cossa14 decades - 61
Michael Pacher17 decades - 62
Lorenzo Monaco22 decades - 63
Cosimo Rosselli22 decades - 64
Jacopo de' Barbari14 decades - 65
Andrea della Robbia22 decades - 66Michael Sittow1 decades
- 67
Juan de Flandes13 decades - 68
Giovanni Santi21 decades - 69
Bartolomé Bermejo11 decades - 70
Konrad Witz12 decades - 71
Francesco Laurana14 decades - 72
Sassetta22 decades - 73
Justus van Gent13 decades - 74
Piero del Pollaiuolo11 decades - 75
Geertgen tot Sint Jans0 decades - 76
Jean Hey3 decades - 77
Shen Zhou1 decades - 78
Bernt Notke10 decades - 79Andrea Solari0 decades
- 80Francesco Botticini10 decades
- 81
Alesso Baldovinetti21 decades - 82
Domenico di Michelino19 decades - 83
Pietro Lombardo22 decades - 84
Adam Kraft22 decades - 85
Niccolò dell'Arca13 decades - 86
Desiderio da Settignano22 decades - 87
Giovanni di Paolo9 decades - 88
Nuno Gonçalves0 decades - 89
Lorenzo Costa9 decades - 90
Francesco Francia10 decades - 91
Nanni di Banco17 decades - 92
Agostino di Duccio14 decades - 93
Anton Coberger16 decades - 94
Barthélemy d'Eyck0 decades - 95
Johann Froben14 decades - 96
Jean Bourdichon14 decades - 97
Jean Malouel8 decades - 98
Niccolò Antonio Colantonionot measured- - 99
Enguerrand Quarton8 decades - 100
Bartolomeo Vivarini18 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.