← 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
Johannes Gutenberg17 decades - 2
Ulugh Beg15 decades - 3
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli19 decades - 4
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Jamshīd al-Kāshīnot measured- - 5
Ali Qushji0 decades - 6
Ahmad ibn Mājidnot measured- - 7
Fra Mauro22 decades - 8
Orbannot measured- - 9
Basil Valentine22 decades - 10
Chang Yŏngsilnot measured- - 11
Pedro Navarro, Count of Olivetonot measured- - 12
Henricus Martellus Germanus0 decades - 13
János Vitéz0 decades - 14Giovanni Fontana0 decades
- 15
Yuriy Drohobychnot measured- - 16
Taccola3 decades - 17
Johannes Stöffler2 decades - 18Domenico Maria Novara da Ferraranot measured-
- 19Johannes Grant0 decades
- 20Johannes Ruysch0 decades
- 21Bernard Wapowski0 decades
- 22
Claudius Clavus0 decades - 23
Johannes Stabius0 decades - 24
Giovanni Bianchini0 decades - 25Johannes von Gmunden7 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.