← Fame through time1050-1059
The 1050s
Whose working lives fell in the 1050s. 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 1050s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Harold Godwinson1 decades - 2
Edward the Confessor22 decades - 3
Pope Gregory VII22 decades - 4
Harald Hardrada5 decades - 5
Ramanuja16 decades - 6
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 7
Robert Guiscard22 decades - 8
Ferdinand I of León and Castile1 decades - 9
Nizam al-Mulk8 decades - 10
Solomon ibn Gabirol8 decades - 11
Sweyn II of Denmark0 decades - 12
Lulach8 decades - 13
Béla I of Hungarynot measured- - 14
Michael Psellos1 decades - 15
Andrew I of Hungary0 decades - 16
Iziaslav I of Kievnot measured- - 17
Casimir I the Restorer0 decades - 18
Eudokia Makrembolitissa0 decades - 19
Wang Anshi10 decades - 20
Edward the Exile0 decades - 21
Su Song3 decades - 22
Zhou Dunyi5 decades - 23
Sima Guang2 decades - 24
Zhang Zai7 decades - 25
Anastasia of Kyivnot 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.