← 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
Harald Hardrada5 decades - 2
Magnus the Good3 decades - 3
Olaf II of Norway0 decades - 4
Elisiv of Kievnot measured- - 5Bjarni Herjólfsson0 decades
- 6Tora Torbergsdatternot measured-
- 7
Thorir Hund0 decades - 8Wulfhild of Norwaynot measured-
- 9Ingibiorg Finnsdottirnot measured-
- 10
Einar Thambarskelfir0 decades - 11Maria Haraldsdotternot measured-
- 12Ingerid of Denmarknot measured-
- 13Torstein Knarresmednot measured-
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.