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The 1010s
Whose working lives fell in the 1010s. 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 1010s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Avicenna22 decades - 2
Stephen I of Hungary0 decades - 3
Edmund Ironside22 decades - 4
Yaroslav the Wise0 decades - 5
Theodora Porphyrogenitanot measured- - 6
Pope Benedict VIII0 decades - 7
Harald II of Denmarknot measured- - 8
Thorfinn Karlsefni0 decades - 9
Olof Skötkonung0 decades - 10
Zoë Porphyrogenitanot measured- - 11
Atiśa1 decades - 12
Cunigunde of Luxembourgnot measured- - 13
Pope John XIX0 decades - 14
Sviatopolk I of Kievnot measured- - 15
Thietmar of Merseburg0 decades - 16
Ichijōnot measured- - 17
Jovan Vladimir0 decades - 18
Tancred of Hauteville3 decades - 19
Ivan Vladislav of Bulgarianot measured- - 20
Sanjōnot measured- - 21
Freydís Eiríksdóttirnot measured- - 22
Gerard of Csanád0 decades - 23
Izumi Shikibu3 decades - 24Hisham III of Córdobanot measured-
- 25Uhtred of Bamburgh0 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.