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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
  26. 26Tlacaelel/ Tlakaelel1397-1487 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  27. 27Guillaume d'Estouteville1403-1483 · France · Religious Figures17 decades
  28. 28John of Sahagún1419-1479 · Spain · Religious Figures14 decades
  29. 29Pedro de Arbués1441-1485 · Religious Figures21 decades
  30. 30Oliviero Carafa1430-1511 · Religious Figures0 decades
  31. 31Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña1410-1482 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  32. 32Hernando de Talavera1428-1507 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  33. 33James of the Marches1393-1476 · Religious Figures22 decades
  34. 34Pier Luigi de Borgia1462-1488 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  35. 35Diego Deza1444-1523 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  36. 36Pietro Riario1445-1474 · Religious Figures0 decades
  37. 37Benedict XIV (Bernard Garnier)1370-1430 · France · Religious Figures3 decades
  38. 38Christopher Bainbridge1464-1514 · Religious Figures0 decades
  39. 39James of Coimbra1433-1459 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  40. 40Thomas Bourchier1404-1486 · Religious Figures9 decades
  41. 41Antonio Osorio de Acuña1459-1526 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  42. 42Domenico Grimani1461-1523 · Religious Figures0 decades
  43. 43Louis I, Duke of Bardied 1430 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  44. 44Lorenzo Pucci1458-1531 · Religious Figures21 decades
  45. 45Hermann IV of Hesse1442-1508 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  46. 46Szymon of Lipnica1437-1482 · Poland · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  47. 47Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna1417-1467 · Sweden · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  48. 48John Morton1420-1500 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  49. 49Leonhard von Keutschach1442-1519 · Religious Figures0 decades
  50. 50Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor1446-1503 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  51. 51Ernest II of Saxony1464-1513 · Germany · Religious Figures16 decades
  52. 52Bernard II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg1432-1464 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  53. 53Adriano Castellesi1461-1521 · Religious Figures0 decades
  54. 54Anthony Neyrot1425-1460 · Religious Figures0 decades
  55. 55Luis Julian de Milà1432-1510 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  56. 56Diether von Isenburg1412-1482 · Germany · Religious Figures19 decades
  57. 57Juan de Cervantes1380-1453 · Religious Figures22 decades
  58. 58Willem van Enckevoirt1464-1534 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  59. 59Filippo Calandrini1403-1476 · Religious Figures0 decades
  60. 60Jean Rolin1408-1483 · France · Religious Figures18 decades
  61. 61Conrad IV, duke of Oels1380-1447 · Poland · Religious Figures11 decades
  62. 62Domenico della Rovere1442-1501 · Religious Figures0 decades
  63. 63Henry Deane1440-1503 · Religious Figures9 decades
  64. 64Kettil Karlsson1433-1465 · Sweden · Religious Figures0 decades
  65. 65Domenico Capranica1400-1458 · Religious Figures0 decades
  66. 66Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati1422-1479 · Religious Figures2 decades
  67. 67Alain de Coëtivy1407-1474 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  68. 68Lewis of Luxembourg1391-1443 · France · Religious Figures22 decades
  69. 69Jorge da Costa1406-1508 · Religious Figures0 decades
  70. 70William VIII of Jülich, Count of Ravensberg1382-1428 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  71. 71Benedict XIV (Jean Carrier)1370-1437 · France · Religious Figures8 decades
  72. 72Pierre de Foix, le jeune1449-1490 · Religious Figures0 decades
  73. 73Frederick IV of Baden1458-1517 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  74. 74Latino Orsini1411-1477 · Religious Figures0 decades
  75. 75Girolamo Basso della Rovere1434-1507 · Religious Figures0 decades
  76. 76Marco Barbo1420-1491 · Religious Figures21 decades
  77. 77Alonso de Fonseca y Ulloa1415-1473 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  78. 78Didrik Slagheck1450-1522 · Sweden · Religious Figures0 decades
  79. 79Robert Stillington1420-1491 · Religious Figures1 decades
  80. 80Giovanni Vitelleschi1390-1440 · Religious Figures0 decades
  81. 81Aleksander Mazowiecki1400-1444 · Poland · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  82. 82Johann von Dalberg1455-1503 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  83. 83Alessandro Geraldini1455-1525 · Religious Figures7 decades
  84. 84Theodoric II of Moers1385-1463 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  85. 85Giovanni Battista Zeno1439-1501 · Religious Figures0 decades
  86. 86Mykolas Giedraitis1420-1485 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  87. 87Regnault de Chartres1380-1444 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  88. 88Lionel Woodville1454-1484 · Religious Figures0 decades
  89. 89Niccolò Fieschi1456-1524 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  90. 90Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte1461-1533 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  91. 91Louis Aleman1390-1450 · Religious Figures0 decades
  92. 92William Waynflete1398-1486 · Religious Figures2 decades
  93. 93Johannes Hinderbach1418-1486 · Germany · Religious Figures13 decades
  94. 94Juan de Vera1453-1507 · Spain · Religious Figures19 decades
  95. 95Rudolf von Scherenberg1401-1495 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  96. 96Francesco Soderini1453-1524 · Religious Figures0 decades
  97. 97Lawrence Booth1420-1480 · United Kingdom · Religious Figures0 decades
  98. 98Johannes Soreth1394-1471 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  99. 99James Kennedy1408-1465 · United Kingdom · Religious Figures22 decades
  100. 100John II of Baden1434-1503 · Germany · Religious Figures0 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.