← 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 - 26Bogomilnot measured-
- 27
Qian Chu0 decades - 28
Abu Nu`aymnot measured- - 29Leo the Deacon0 decades
- 30Rajasekharanot measured-
- 31
Symeon the Metaphrast0 decades - 32Vācaspati Miśra0 decades
- 33Æthelweard1 decades
- 34Eutychius of Alexandria0 decades
- 35Yelü Beinot measured-
- 36
Chernorizets Hrabar0 decades - 37
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusinot measured- - 38Flodoard11 decades
- 39Ibn al-Faqih0 decades
- 40
Akazome Emon0 decades - 41
Huaruinot measured- - 42
Notker Labeo8 decades - 43Heonaenot measured-
- 44
Isenot measured- - 45
Saint Gorazdnot measured- - 46
Adso of Montier-en-Dernot measured- - 47Tha'ālibī0 decades
- 48
Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tangnot measured- - 49Agapius of Hierapolis0 decades
- 50Adalberon of Laon0 decades
- 51
Fujiwara no Tadahira0 decades - 52Muḥammad Ibn-al-Ḥusain as-Sulamīnot measured-
- 53
Chavundaraya0 decades - 54Þjóðólfr of Hvinirnot measured-
- 55Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawharinot measured-
- 56
Rinchen Zangpo0 decades - 57Meng Chang0 decades
- 58
Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Hahanot measured- - 59Ibn al-Qūṭiyyanot measured-
- 60Eyvindr skáldaspillir0 decades
- 61
Cosmas the Priest0 decades - 62
John the Iberian0 decades - 63Qian Hongzuonot measured-
- 64Al-Qaffāl al-Shāshīnot measured-
- 65
Sahib ibn Abbad0 decades - 66
Judah ben David Hayyuj12 decades - 67Constantine of Preslav0 decades
- 68
Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamiminot measured- - 69
Hai Gaon22 decades - 70Ahmad ibn A'thamnot measured-
- 71
Notker of Liège0 decades - 72John the Deacon4 decades
- 73Richerus0 decades
- 74
Ranna14 decades - 75Cynewulfnot measured-
- 76Hamza al-Isbahaninot measured-
- 77Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahirinot measured-
- 78
Ratherius9 decades - 79
Ekkehard I0 decades - 80John Kaminiates0 decades
- 81Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizminot measured-
- 82
Xue Juzhengnot measured- - 83
Kiyohara no Motosuke0 decades - 84Oecumeniusnot measured-
- 85
Narshakhi0 decades - 86Muhammad ibn Hani0 decades
- 87John Geometres0 decades
- 88
Minamoto no Shitagōnot measured- - 89Wang Yan1 decades
- 90Liu Xu0 decades
- 91Menahem ben Saruq0 decades
- 92
Abu Ishaq Kazeruninot measured- - 93Abu Al-Fath Al-Bustinot measured-
- 94
Fujiwara no Koretada0 decades - 95Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Razinot measured-
- 96Aimoin of Fleury3 decades
- 97
Baba Kuhi of Shiraz0 decades - 98Abu-Shakur Balkhinot measured-
- 99Þorbjörn Hornklofinot measured-
- 100John of Gorze0 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.