← Fame through time900-999
The 10th century
Whose working lives fell in the 10th 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 10th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 2
Æthelstan11 decades - 3
Vladimir the Great4 decades - 4
Pope John XII7 decades - 5
Hugh Capet22 decades - 6
Ferdowsi7 decades - 7
Al-Farabi7 decades - 8
Basil II20 decades - 9
Olga of Kiev0 decades - 10
Erik the Red11 decades - 11
Edward the Elder22 decades - 12
Edmund I1 decades - 13
Pope Leo VIII0 decades - 14
Harald Bluetooth1 decades - 15
Henry the Fowlernot measured- - 16
Sweyn Forkbeard0 decades - 17
Charles the Simple19 decades - 18
Pope Sylvester II16 decades - 19
Edred of Englandnot measured- - 20
Edward the Martyr13 decades - 21
Eadwig14 decades - 22
Pope Gregory V0 decades - 23
Constantine VII14 decades - 24
Pope Lando0 decades - 25
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured-
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.