← 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-
- 26
Fan Zhongyan0 decades - 27
George I of Georgianot measured- - 28
Odo II, Count of Bloisnot measured- - 29
Stefan Vojislav0 decades - 30Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrinot measured-
- 31
Eilmer of Malmesbury0 decades - 32
Seljuknot measured- - 33
Adalbert, Margrave of Austrianot measured- - 34
Estrid Svendsdatternot measured- - 35
Hugh Magnus0 decades - 36
Airlangganot measured- - 37
Otto Orseolo0 decades - 38Rodulfus Glaber0 decades
- 39
Robert le Danois0 decades - 40
Ali ibn Ridwan0 decades - 41
Adémar de Chabannes0 decades - 42
Melus of Bari0 decades - 43Kshemendra0 decades
- 44Eustace I, Count of Boulogne0 decades
- 45Ibn Hayyan0 decades
- 46Abd ar-Rahman Vnot measured-
- 47
Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscanynot measured- - 48
Ibn al-Bawwab0 decades - 49Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labinot measured-
- 50Ad-Darazi0 decades
- 51
Thorir Hund0 decades - 52
Elvira Mendesnot measured- - 53
Hilarion of Kyivnot measured- - 54
García Sánchez of Castilenot measured- - 55
Fujiwara no Shōshinot measured- - 56
Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen8 decades - 57
Fujiwara no Yorimichi0 decades - 58
Bahmanyārnot measured- - 59
Oda of Meissennot measured- - 60
Majd al-Dawla0 decades - 61
Gregory Magistros0 decades - 62
Zhang Boduannot measured- - 63
Reginald I, Count of Burgundy0 decades - 64
Popponot measured- - 65
Ogive of Luxembourgnot measured- - 66Hamid al-Din al-Kirmaninot measured-
- 67Jonah ibn Janah12 decades
- 68
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi0 decades - 69
Abu Ya'la0 decades - 70Gaunilo of Marmoutiers0 decades
- 71
Ladislas the Bald0 decades - 72Al-Basasiri0 decades
- 73
Koshikibu no Naishi0 decades - 74Chananel ben Chushiel15 decades
- 75
Moses the Hungarian0 decades - 76
Nōin0 decades - 77Otto, Count of Vermandoisnot measured-
- 78Hugh IV of Lusignan0 decades
- 79Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānīnot measured-
- 80Fujiwara no Kenshinot measured-
- 81
Judith of Hungarynot measured- - 82Habbus al-Muzaffarnot measured-
- 83John Mauropous0 decades
- 84
Sultan al-Dawla0 decades - 85
Shams al-Dawla0 decades - 86Thietmar, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmarknot measured-
- 87
Fujiwara no Michimasanot measured- - 88Nissim ben Jacob17 decades
- 89
Ali-Teginnot measured- - 90Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsilinot measured-
- 91
Zhao Yuanyannot measured- - 92
Yan Shu0 decades - 93
Manuchihrnot measured- - 94
Shibl al-Dawla Nasrnot measured- - 95William II of Angoulêmenot measured-
- 96Raoul III of Vexinnot measured-
- 97
Kalv Arnesson0 decades - 98
Tryggvi the Pretendernot measured- - 99Hasanak the Viziernot measured-
- 100Lothar Udo I.not 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.