← 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
Harold Godwinson1 decades - 2
Edward the Confessor22 decades - 3
Harold Harefoot10 decades - 4
Sweyn II of Denmark0 decades - 5
Duncan II of Scotland0 decades - 6
Gruffudd ap Llywelynnot measured- - 7Rhys ap Tewdwr5 decades
- 8Cynan ab Iago0 decades
- 9
Cadwgan ap Bleddyn0 decades - 10Hywel ab Edwin0 decades
- 11Caradog ap Gruffudd0 decades
- 12Gruffudd ap Rhydderch0 decades
- 13
Elystan Glodryddnot 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.