← 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
Harald Bluetooth1 decades - 2
Sweyn Forkbeard0 decades - 3
Gorm the Old1 decades - 4
Thorkell the Tall0 decades - 5
Thyranot measured- - 6
Ulf the Earlnot measured- - 7
Sigvaldi Strut-Haraldssonnot measured- - 8
Tróndur í Gøtunot measured- - 9Gunhilde0 decades
- 10Gyrid of Swedennot measured-
- 11Helgenot measured-
- 12Pallig0 decades
- 13
Strut-Haraldnot measured- - 14Gnupanot measured-
- 15Toke Gormssonnot measured-
- 16
Canute Danaástnot measured- - 17Bue Digre0 decades
- 18Asfrid Odinkarsdatternot 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.