← 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
Josquin des Prez16 decades - 2
Guillaume Du Fay0 decades - 3
Johannes Ockeghem1 decades - 4
John Dunstaple0 decades - 5
Gilles Binchois5 decades - 6
Heinrich Isaac0 decades - 7
Tallapaka Annamacharya0 decades - 8
Hans Talhoffer0 decades - 9
Jacob Obrecht0 decades - 10
Hans Böhm13 decades - 11
Antoine Busnois0 decades - 12
Johannes Tinctoris0 decades - 13
Johannes Ciconia3 decades - 14
Pierre de la Rue0 decades - 15
Bianca de' Medici0 decades - 16
Alexander Agricolanot measured- - 17
Franchinus Gaffurius20 decades - 18
Antoine Brumel0 decades - 19Jean Mouton20 decades
- 20Leonel Power0 decades
- 21
Loyset Compère2 decades - 22
Conrad Paumann6 decades - 23
Arnolt Schlick3 decades - 24Solage0 decades
- 25
Israhel van Meckenemnot measured-
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.