← 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
Ibn al-Haytham5 decades - 2
Guido of Arezzo0 decades - 3
Shen Kuo7 decades - 4
Bi Sheng0 decades - 5
Al-Juwayni0 decades - 6
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālīnot measured- - 7
Eilmer of Malmesbury0 decades - 8Said al-Andalusi0 decades
- 9
Al-Mu'izz ibn Badisnot measured- - 10
Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihinot measured- - 11
Gregory Magistros0 decades - 12Śrīpati0 decades
- 13Ibn Bassal0 decades
- 14
Al-Mazirinot measured- - 15Zhang Sixun0 decades
- 16
Abu al-Hakam al-Kirmaninot measured- - 17Brahmadeva0 decades
- 18Walcher of Malvern0 decades
- 19Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī Tibrīzīnot measured-
- 20Lupitus of Barcelona0 decades
- 21Ouyang Fanot 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.