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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. 1Pope Alexander VI1431-1503 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  2. 2Pope Julius II1443-1513 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Pope Sixtus IV1414-1484 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  4. 4Pope Pius II1405-1464 · Italy · Religious Figures21 decades
  5. 5Pope Adrian VI1459-1523 · Netherlands · Religious Figures22 decades
  6. 6Pope Martin V1369-1431 · Italy · Religious Figures5 decades
  7. 7Pope Paul II1417-1471 · Italy · Religious Figures11 decades
  8. 8Pope Nicholas V1397-1455 · Italy · Religious Figures10 decades
  9. 9Pope Callixtus III1379-1458 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Antipope John XXIII1370-1419 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Innocent VIII1432-1492 · Italy · Religious Figures20 decades
  12. 12Pope Eugene IV1383-1447 · Italy · Religious Figures3 decades
  13. 13Pope Pius III1439-1503 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros1436-1517 · Spain · Religious Figures20 decades
  15. 15Francis of Paola1416-1507 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  16. 16Prokop the Great1380-1434 · Religious Figures0 decades
  17. 17Henry Beaufort1375-1447 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  18. 18Pierre Cauchon1371-1442 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  19. 19Clement VIII1370-1447 · Religious Figures22 decades
  20. 20John III, Duke of Bavaria1375-1425 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  21. 21Jan Długosz1415-1480 · Religious Figures0 decades
  22. 22Raffaele Riario1461-1521 · Religious Figures22 decades
  23. 23William Warham1450-1532 · Religious Figures8 decades
  24. 24Charles II, Duke of Bourbon1434-1488 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  25. 25John Cantius1390-1473 · Religious Figures0 decades
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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.