1000-1099
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800-2019Echoed
- 1
Olof Skötkonung980-1022 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figures0 decades - 2
Sigrid the Haughty968-1014 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figures0 decades - 3
Inge the Elder1060-1105 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Politicians0 decades - 4
Anund Jacob1008-1050 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figures0 decades - 5ETEmund the Old1000-1060 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figures0 decades
- 6HSHalsten Stenkilsson1050-1081 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figuresnot measured-
- 7
Stenkil1030-1066 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Politicians0 decades - 8EOEstrid of the Obotrites979-1035 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figuresnot measured-
- 9GOGyda of Sweden1001-1048 · 🇸🇪 Swedennot measured-
- 10AGAnund Gårdskeborn 1004 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Politiciansnot measured-
- 11GSGunnhildr Sveinsdóttir1015-1060 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figuresnot measured-
- 12
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Saint Eskil1020-1069 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Religious Figures0 decades - 13
Ragnvald Ulfsson1000-1100 · 🇸🇪 Swedennot measured- - 14CICatherine Ingesdotter of Sweden1001-1101 · 🇸🇪 Swedennot measured-
- 15
Ragnhild of Tälje1001-1117 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Historical Figuresnot measured- - 16
David of Munktorp1001-1082 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Religious Figures0 decades - 17
Fotborn 1050 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists21 decades - 18
Öpir1000-1101 · 🇸🇪 Sweden0 decades - 19
Balleborn 1050 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured-
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active - around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.