← 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
Al-Ghazali6 decades - 2
Omar Khayyam15 decades - 3
Al-Biruni8 decades - 4
Ramanuja16 decades - 5
Rashi13 decades - 6
Mahmud al-Kashgari0 decades - 7
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari0 decades - 8
Zhou Dunyi5 decades - 9
Zhang Zai7 decades - 10
Ali Hujwiri0 decades - 11
Marpa Chokyi Lodro0 decades - 12
Al-Bayhaqi0 decades - 13
Berengar of Tours0 decades - 14Roscellinus12 decades
- 15Ibn 'Abd al-Barrnot measured-
- 16
Cheng Haonot measured- - 17Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hudnot measured-
- 18
Zhang Boduannot measured- - 19
Su Zhe0 decades - 20
Abu Al - Moin Al - Nasafinot measured- - 21
Bahmanyārnot measured- - 22
Udayananot measured- - 23John Italus0 decades
- 24Hamid al-Din al-Kirmaninot measured-
- 25Gaunilo of Marmoutiers0 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.