← Fame through time1160-1169
The 1160s
Whose working lives fell in the 1160s. 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 1160s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry II of England12 decades - 2
Averroes22 decades - 3
Zhu Xi8 decades - 4
Henry the Lion22 decades - 5
William of Tyre22 decades - 6
Baldwin III of Jerusalem0 decades - 7
Basava20 decades - 8
Benjamin of Tudela13 decades - 9
Yesugei2 decades - 10
Valdemar I of Denmark0 decades - 11
Saint Rosalia0 decades - 12
Lu You8 decades - 13
Jayavarman VII7 decades - 14
Malcolm IV of Scotland0 decades - 15
Géza II of Hungary0 decades - 16
Go-Shirakawa1 decades - 17
Toghrulnot measured- - 18Constance of Antioch0 decades
- 19
Sancho VI of Navarre0 decades - 20
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembrokenot measured- - 21
Absalonnot measured- - 22
Rashid ad-Din Sinan0 decades - 23
Nijōnot measured- - 24
Inge I of Norwaynot measured- - 25
Peter I of Courtenaynot measured-
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.