Claim profile
900–999

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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.

CountryAll🇯🇵 Japan🇩🇪 Germany🇫🇷 France🇳🇴 Norway🇮🇹 Italy🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇸🇪 Sweden🇪🇬 Egypt🇪🇸 Spain🇦🇹 Austria
FieldAllHistorical FiguresWritersPoliticiansReligious FiguresModelsAcademicsActorsScientistsDoctorsArtists
  1. 1Al-FarabiAl-Farabi870–951 · Academics7 decades
  2. 2Saadia GaonSaadia Gaon882–942 · Academics22 decades
  3. 3Al-Ash'ariAl-Ash'ari873–935 · Academics0 decades
  4. 4AbhinavaguptaAbhinavagupta950–1020 · Academics10 decades
  5. 5Fulbert of ChartresFulbert of Chartres960–1028 · Academics0 decades
  6. 6Abu al-Wafa' BuzjaniAbu al-Wafa' Buzjani940–998 · Academicsnot measured—
  7. 7Symeon the New TheologianSymeon the New Theologian949–1022 · Academics3 decades
  8. 8Ibn MiskawayhIbn Miskawayh932–1030 · Academics0 decades
  9. 9Abbo of FleuryAbbo of Fleury945–1004 · Academics0 decades
  10. 10Al-KarajiAl-Karaji953–1029 · Academics0 decades
  11. 11Ibn SahlIbn Sahl940–1000 · Academics1 decades
  12. 12Ibn YunusIbn Yunus950–958 · Academics0 decades
  13. 13GBGershom ben Judah961–1040 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Academics0 decades
  14. 14AAAl-Shaykh Al-Mufid948–1022 · Academicsnot measured—
  15. 15Abd al-Jabbar ibn AhmadAbd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad935–1025 · Academicsnot measured—
  16. 16AMAbu Mansur al-Baghdadi961–1037 · Academics0 decades
  17. 17AHAbū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī923–1023 · Academicsnot measured—
  18. 18ANAbu Nasr Mansur960–1036 · Academics0 decades
  19. 19Abu Sahl al-QuhiAbu Sahl al-Quhi940–1000 · Academics0 decades
  20. 20SSeongjong960–997 · Academicsnot measured—
  21. 21AKAbu-Mahmud Khujandi940–1000 · Academicsnot measured—
  22. 22AAAbu al-Hassan al-Amiri913–992 · Academicsnot measured—
  23. 23IIIbrahim ibn Sinan908–946 · Academics0 decades
  24. 24ABAbu Bakr al-Ajurri877–970 · Academicsnot measured—
  25. 25IMIbn Masarra883–931 · Academics1 decades
  26. 26ASAbu Sulayman Sijistani912–987 · Academicsnot measured—
  27. 27Abu'l-Hasan al-UqlidisiAbu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi920–980 · Academicsnot measured—
  28. 28ABAbu Bakr al-Kalabadhi950–990 · Academics0 decades
  29. 29AAl-Nayrizi865–922 · Academics0 decades
  30. 30AlchabitiusAlchabitius901–990 · Academics0 decades
  31. 31Ibn FurakIbn Furak941–1015 · Academics0 decades
  32. 32AAl-Jaṣṣās918–981 · Academicsnot measured—
  33. 33YIYahya ibn Adi893–974 · Academics0 decades
  34. 34Euthymius of AthosEuthymius of Athos955–1028 · Academics0 decades
  35. 35YamunacharyaYamunacharya950–1038 · Academics0 decades
  36. 36AIAryabhata II920–1000 · 🇮🇳 India · Academics0 decades
  37. 37ABAbu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus870–940 · Academics0 decades
  38. 38SISinan ibn Thabit880–943 · Academics0 decades
  39. 39SSridhara870–930 · Academics13 decades
  40. 40Ibn JinniIbn Jinni941–1002 · Academics0 decades
  41. 41Ahmad ibn MuhammadAhmad ibn Muhammad906–963 · Academics0 decades
  42. 42Chen TuanChen Tuan871–989 · Academics0 decades
  43. 43AʿAbū ʿAlī al-Fārisī901–987 · Academicsnot measured—
  44. 44UUtpaladeva900–950 · 🇮🇳 India · Academics1 decades
  45. 45AMAbu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Naubakhti900–922 · Academicsnot measured—
  46. 46AHAbu Hashim al-Jubba'i888–933 · Academicsnot measured—
  47. 47IHIbn Hindu942–1019 · Academics0 decades
  48. 48SSomananda875–925 · Academics0 decades
  49. 49IIbn-al-Anbārī885–940 · Academicsnot measured—
  50. 50IIranshahriborn 900 · Academics0 decades
  51. 51IAIbn al-Khammarborn 942 · Academics0 decades
  52. 52COCarpus of Antiochdied 1000 · Academics0 decades
  53. 53JBJacob ben Nissim950–1006 · Academics0 decades
  54. 54MAMuhammad al-Nasafidied 943 · Academics0 decades
  55. 55VVaṭeśvaraborn 880 · Academicsnot measured—
  56. 56VVijayanandi940–1010 · Academics0 decades

How this is measured

  • Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
  • Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
  • Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
  • What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.