← 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
Kabirnot measured- - 2
François Villon20 decades - 3
Catherine of Valois0 decades - 4
Thomas à Kempis20 decades - 5
Charles, Duke of Orléans22 decades - 6Thomas Malory18 decades
- 7
Edward, King of Portugalnot measured- - 8
Stefan Lazarević0 decades - 9
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani0 decades - 10
Jaminot measured- - 11
Nezahualcóyotl0 decades - 12Galal al-Din el-Suyutinot measured-
- 13
Muhammad Shaybani0 decades - 14
Ali-Shir Nava'i0 decades - 15
Sankardev0 decades - 16
Lorenzo Valla14 decades - 17
Imadaddin Nasiminot measured- - 18
Leonardo Bruni22 decades - 19
Matteo Maria Boiardo22 decades - 20
Mahmud Pasha3 decades - 21
Johannes Trithemius0 decades - 22
Ikkyū Sōjun0 decades - 23
Axayacatl14 decades - 24
Lucrezia Tornabuoni22 decades - 25
Oswald von Wolkenstein21 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.