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.

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FieldAllHistorical FiguresWritersPoliticiansReligious FiguresModelsAcademicsActorsScientistsDoctorsArtists
  1. 1Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-RaziMuhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi866–925 · Doctorsnot measured—
  2. 2Al-ZahrawiAl-Zahrawi936–1010 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Doctors0 decades
  3. 3Hasdai ibn ShaprutHasdai ibn Shaprut915–975 · Doctors0 decades
  4. 4Ibn al-JazzarIbn al-Jazzar878–1005 · Doctors0 decades
  5. 5Ibn HibbanIbn Hibban883–965 · Doctors0 decades
  6. 6IJIbn Juljul943–994 · Doctors0 decades
  7. 7MasawaihMasawaih925–1015 · Doctors0 decades
  8. 8Ibn al-KattaniIbn al-Kattani951–1029 · Doctors0 decades
  9. 9'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu940–1058 · Doctorsnot measured—
  10. 10AAAbu al-Hasan al-Tabari950–985 · Doctorsnot measured—
  11. 11IAIbn Al-Thahabi901–1033 · Doctorsnot measured—
  12. 12AAl-Ruhawidied 913 · Doctors0 decades
  13. 13IZIbn Zura943–1008 · Doctors0 decades
  14. 14IBIbn Baksdied 1003 · Doctorsnot measured—
  15. 15IAIbn Abi al-Ashʿathdied 975 · Doctorsnot measured—
  16. 16AUAbu ul-Ala Shirazidied 1001 · Doctorsnot measured—

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.