← 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
Avicenna22 decades - 2
Constantine the African1 decades - 3
Ibn Butlan0 decades - 4
Ali ibn Ridwan0 decades - 5
Zayn al-Din Gorganinot measured- - 6
Ibn al-Wafid0 decades - 7Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsilinot measured-
- 8Al-Tughrainot measured-
- 9
Ibn Abi Sadiqnot measured-
- 10Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazinot measured-
- 11
Alfanus I0 decades - 12Ibn al-Tayyib0 decades
- 13Al-Hakim al-Munajjimnot measured-
- 14Wang Weiyinot measured-
- 15Tang Shenwei0 decades
- 16Ali ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqinot 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.