← Fame through time1140-1149
The 1140s
Whose working lives fell in the 1140s. 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 1140s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Adrian IV22 decades - 2
Muhammad al-Idrisi0 decades - 3
Afonso I of Portugal0 decades - 4
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou13 decades - 5
Bhāskara II0 decades - 6
Enrico Dandolo1 decades - 7
Melisende3 decades - 8
Alfonso VII of Castile0 decades - 9
Stefan Nemanja0 decades - 10
Pope Celestine III2 decades - 11
Béla II of Hungarynot measured- - 12
Matilda of Boulogne1 decades - 13
Pope Lucius III3 decades - 14
Gerard of Cremona10 decades - 15
Andrey Bogolyubsky0 decades - 16
Emperor Gaozong of Song3 decades - 17
Otto of Freising22 decades - 18
Raymond of Poitiers17 decades - 19
John Tzetzes3 decades - 20
Pope Anastasius IV0 decades - 21
Shirkuh7 decades - 22
John of Salisbury22 decades - 23
Władysław II the Exilenot measured- - 24
Ramon Berenguer IVnot measured- - 25
Innocent III22 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.