← Fame through time1000-1099
The 11th century
Whose working lives fell in the 11th 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 11th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William the Conqueror22 decades - 2
Avicenna22 decades - 3
Leif Erikson11 decades - 4
Harold Godwinson1 decades - 5
El Cid20 decades - 6
Al-Ghazali6 decades - 7
Cnut the Great0 decades - 8
Omar Khayyam15 decades - 9
Pope Benedict IX0 decades - 10
William II of England0 decades - 11
Ibn al-Haytham5 decades - 12
Edward the Confessor22 decades - 13
Al-Biruni8 decades - 14
Godfrey of Bouillon22 decades - 15
Pope Urban II22 decades - 16
Anselm of Canterbury17 decades - 17
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 18
Pope Gregory VII22 decades - 19
Harald Hardrada5 decades - 20
Æthelred the Unready0 decades - 21
Mahmud of Ghazni15 decades - 22
Murasaki Shikibu6 decades - 23
Lady Godiva22 decades - 24
Alexios I Komnenos0 decades - 25
Stephen I of Hungary0 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.