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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. 1Al-Farabi870-951 · Academics7 decades
  2. 2Saadia Gaon882-942 · Academics22 decades
  3. 3Abhinavagupta950-1020 · Academics10 decades
  4. 4Symeon the New Theologian949-1022 · Academics3 decades
  5. 5Al-Karaji953-1029 · Academics0 decades
  6. 6Ibn Sahl940-1000 · Academics1 decades
  7. 7Ibn Miskawayh932-1030 · Academics0 decades
  8. 8Seongjong960-997 · Academicsnot measured-
  9. 9Ibn Yunus950-958 · Academics0 decades
  10. 10Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid948-1022 · Academicsnot measured-
  11. 11Gershom ben Judah961-1040 · Germany · Academics0 decades
  12. 12Abbo of Fleury945-1004 · Academics0 decades
  13. 13Fulbert of Chartres960-1028 · Academics0 decades
  14. 14Al-Ash'ari873-935 · Academics0 decades
  15. 15Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi961-1037 · Academics0 decades
  16. 16Sridhara870-930 · Academics13 decades
  17. 17Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad935-1025 · Academicsnot measured-
  18. 18Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī923-1023 · Academicsnot measured-
  19. 19Yamunacharya950-1038 · Academics0 decades
  20. 20Abu Nasr Mansur960-1036 · Academics0 decades
  21. 21Al-Jaṣṣās918-981 · Academicsnot measured-
  22. 22Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi920-980 · Academicsnot measured-
  23. 23Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani940-998 · Academicsnot measured-
  24. 24Ibn Furak941-1015 · Academics0 decades
  25. 25Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri913-992 · Academicsnot measured-
  26. 26Abu Bakr al-Ajurri877-970 · Academicsnot measured-
  27. 27Aryabhata II920-1000 · India · Academics0 decades
  28. 28Ibn Masarra883-931 · Academics1 decades
  29. 29Abu Sulayman Sijistani912-987 · Academicsnot measured-
  30. 30Abu Sahl al-Quhi940-1000 · Academics0 decades
  31. 31Abu-Mahmud Khujandi940-1000 · Academicsnot measured-
  32. 32Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi950-990 · Academics0 decades
  33. 33Al-Nayrizi865-922 · Academics0 decades
  34. 34Chen Tuan871-989 · Academics0 decades
  35. 35Ibn Jinni941-1002 · Academics0 decades
  36. 36Yahya ibn Adi893-974 · Academics0 decades
  37. 37Alchabitius901-990 · Academics0 decades
  38. 38Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus870-940 · Academics0 decades
  39. 39Utpaladeva900-950 · India · Academics1 decades
  40. 40Ibrahim ibn Sinan908-946 · Academics0 decades
  41. 41Euthymius of Athos955-1028 · Georgia · Academics0 decades
  42. 42Ahmad ibn Muhammad906-963 · Academics0 decades
  43. 43Sinan ibn Thabit880-943 · Academics0 decades
  44. 44Somananda875-925 · Academics0 decades
  45. 45Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Naubakhti900-922 · Academicsnot measured-
  46. 46Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī901-987 · Academicsnot measured-
  47. 47Iranshahriborn 900 · Iran · Academics0 decades
  48. 48Ibn al-Khammarborn 942 · Academics0 decades
  49. 49Abu Hashim al-Jubba'i888-933 · Academicsnot measured-
  50. 50Ibn-al-Anbārī885-940 · Academicsnot measured-
  51. 51Ibn Hindu942-1019 · Academics0 decades
  52. 52Carpus of Antiochdied 1000 · Academics0 decades
  53. 53Muhammad al-Nasafidied 943 · Academics0 decades
  54. 54Jacob ben Nissim950-1006 · Academics0 decades
  55. 55Vaṭeśvaraborn 880 · Academicsnot measured-
  56. 56Vijayanandi940-1010 · Academics0 decades
  57. 57Haseb Tabaridied 990 · Academicsnot 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.