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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.

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  1. 1GOGuibert of Nogent1055–1124 · Actors4 decades
  2. 2Stephen HardingStephen Harding1059–1134 · Actors13 decades
  3. 3Al-MawardiAl-Mawardi974–1058 · Actors0 decades
  4. 4Adalbert of HamburgAdalbert of Hamburg1000–1072 · Actors21 decades
  5. 5Sigebert of GemblouxSigebert of Gembloux1030–1112 · Actors0 decades
  6. 6Robert of ArbrisselRobert of Arbrissel1047–1117 · 🇫🇷 France · Actors22 decades
  7. 7HIHamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad985–1041 · Actorsnot measured—
  8. 8Bahya ibn PaqudaBahya ibn Paquda1050–1120 · Actors0 decades
  9. 9Al-BaghawiAl-Baghawi1041–1122 · Actors0 decades
  10. 10AOAnselm of Laon1050–1117 · Actors1 decades
  11. 11SarakhsiSarakhsi1009–1090 · Actorsnot measured—
  12. 12AIAbu Ishaq al-Tha'labidied 1035 · Actorsnot measured—
  13. 13George the HagioriteGeorge the Hagiorite1009–1065 · Actors0 decades
  14. 14CBChananel ben Chushiel990–1053 · Actors15 decades
  15. 15Ibn AqilIbn Aqil1040–1119 · Actors0 decades
  16. 16al-Shīrāzīal-Shīrāzī1003–1083 · Actors0 decades
  17. 17WNWāḥidī Nīsābūrī1010–1076 · Actorsnot measured—
  18. 18AMAbu-'l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Rušd1058–1126 · Actorsnot measured—
  19. 19AʿAbū ʿAmr al-Dānī981–1053 · Actorsnot measured—
  20. 20Abu Zayd al-DabusiAbu Zayd al-Dabusi978–1039 · Actorsnot measured—
  21. 21MIManṣūr ibn Muḥammad Samʻānī1035–1096 · Actorsnot measured—
  22. 22AAAbu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi1030–1100 · Actorsnot measured—
  23. 23HMHafliði Másson1035–1130 · Actorsnot 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.