← 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
Ferdowsi7 decades - 2
Pope Leo VIII0 decades - 3
Constantine VII14 decades - 4
Al-Masudi0 decades - 5
Al-Mutanabbi0 decades - 6
Gregory of Narek0 decades - 7
Hrotsvitha4 decades - 8
Li Yunot measured- - 9
Widukind of Corvey0 decades - 10
Yōzeinot measured- - 11
Liutprand of Cremona0 decades - 12
Ælfric of Eynsham0 decades - 13
Ar-Radi0 decades - 14
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahaninot measured- - 15
Ibn Hawqal2 decades - 16
Odo of Cluny0 decades - 17
Ibn Wahshiyya0 decades - 18Adikavi Pampa0 decades
- 19
Ki no Tsurayuki0 decades - 20
Genshinnot measured- - 21
Hakim al-Nishaburinot measured- - 22
Baba Tahir0 decades - 23
Adalbertnot measured- - 24Dudo of Saint-Quentin0 decades
- 25
Dunash ben Labrat21 decades
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.