← Fame through time1020-1029
The 1020s
Whose working lives fell in the 1020s. 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 1020s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Cnut the Great0 decades - 2
Lady Godiva22 decades - 3
Emma of Normandy0 decades - 4
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 5
Pope Nicholas II2 decades - 6
Guido of Arezzo0 decades - 7
Ibn Hazm10 decades - 8
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allahnot measured- - 9
Tughril13 decades - 10
Sancho III of Navarre0 decades - 11
Richard III22 decades - 12
Mieszko II0 decades - 13
Alfonso V of León10 decades - 14
Samuel Abanot measured- - 15
Gisela of Hungary0 decades - 16
Radbot of Klettgau17 decades - 17
Gisela of Swabia0 decades - 18
Bi Sheng0 decades - 19Samuel ibn Naghrillah21 decades
- 20
Al-Bayhaqi0 decades - 21
Chaghri Beg0 decades - 22
Tilopa3 decades - 23Hyeonjongnot measured-
- 24
Bezprym0 decades - 25Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmadnot measured-
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.