← 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
Murasaki Shikibu6 decades - 2
Su Shi7 decades - 3
al-Ma'arri0 decades - 4
Ibn Hazm10 decades - 5
Vladimir II Monomakh0 decades - 6
Milarepa7 decades - 7
Sei Shōnagon0 decades - 8
Solomon ibn Gabirol8 decades - 9
Atiśa1 decades - 10
Michael Psellos1 decades - 11
Nasir Khusraw0 decades - 12
Thietmar of Merseburg0 decades - 13
Nestor the Chronicler0 decades - 14
Al-Qa'im0 decades - 15
Fulk le Réchin0 decades - 16
John Skylitzes0 decades - 17Samuel ibn Naghrillah21 decades
- 18
Bhojanot measured- - 19
Sanjōnot measured- - 20Al-Bakri0 decades
- 21
Ouyang Xiu8 decades - 22
Otto of Bamberg0 decades - 23
Isaac Alfasinot measured- - 24Wallada bint al-Mustakfi0 decades
- 25
Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbadnot 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.