← 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.
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William the Conqueror22 decades - 2
Avicenna22 decades - 3
Leif Erikson11 decades - 4
Harold Godwinson1 decades - 5
El Cid20 decades - 6
Al-Ghazali6 decades - 7
Cnut the Great0 decades - 8
Omar Khayyam15 decades - 9
Pope Benedict IX0 decades - 10
William II of England0 decades - 11
Ibn al-Haytham5 decades - 12
Edward the Confessor22 decades - 13
Al-Biruni8 decades - 14
Godfrey of Bouillon22 decades - 15
Pope Urban II22 decades - 16
Anselm of Canterbury17 decades - 17
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 18
Pope Gregory VII22 decades - 19
Harald Hardrada5 decades - 20
Æthelred the Unready0 decades - 21
Mahmud of Ghazni15 decades - 22
Murasaki Shikibu6 decades - 23
Lady Godiva22 decades - 24
Alexios I Komnenos0 decades - 25
Stephen I of Hungary0 decades - 26
Harthacnutnot measured- - 27
Edmund Ironside22 decades - 28
Pope Leo IX13 decades - 29
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 30
Ramanuja16 decades - 31
Henry I of France0 decades - 32
Yaroslav the Wise0 decades - 33
Alp Arslan21 decades - 34
Harold Harefoot10 decades - 35
Su Shi7 decades - 36
Macbeth, King of Scotlandnot measured- - 37
Philip I of France0 decades - 38
Matilda of Flanders6 decades - 39
Emma of Normandy0 decades - 40
Robert Curthose0 decades - 41
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 42
Robert II of France0 decades - 43
Bolesław I the Brave0 decades - 44
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 45
Pope Alexander II7 decades - 46
Baldwin I of Jerusalem0 decades - 47
Rashi13 decades - 48
al-Ma'arri0 decades - 49
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 50
Robert Guiscard22 decades - 51
Anne of Kiev0 decades - 52
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Pope Stephen IX0 decades - 53
Pope Victor II18 decades - 54
Bohemond I of Antioch7 decades - 55
Pope Nicholas II2 decades - 56
Guido of Arezzo0 decades - 57
Romanos IV Diogenes0 decades - 58
Magnus the Good3 decades - 59
Malcolm III of Scotland0 decades - 60
Baldwin II of Jerusalem0 decades - 61
Ibn Hazm10 decades - 62
Vladimir II Monomakh0 decades - 63
Constantine IX Monomachos0 decades - 64
Shen Kuo7 decades - 65
Robert I, Duke of Normandy0 decades - 66
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allahnot measured- - 67
Saint Margaret of Scotland0 decades - 68
Matilda of Tuscany0 decades - 69
Malik-Shah I0 decades - 70
Olaf II of Norway0 decades - 71
Theodora Porphyrogenitanot measured- - 72
Milarepa7 decades - 73
Pope Paschal II7 decades - 74
Roger I of Sicily0 decades - 75
Alfonso VI of León and Castilenot measured- - 76
Sei Shōnagon0 decades - 77
Ferdinand I of León and Castile1 decades - 78
Duncan I of Scotland0 decades - 79
Pope Victor III0 decades - 80
Pope Clement II0 decades - 81
Hassan-i Sabbah0 decades - 82
Pope Benedict VIII0 decades - 83
Nizam al-Mulk8 decades - 84
Ladislaus I of Hungary0 decades - 85
Harald II of Denmarknot measured- - 86
Romanos III Argyros0 decades - 87
Pope Damasus II10 decades - 88
Isaac I Komnenos0 decades - 89
Peter the Hermit22 decades - 90
Thorfinn Karlsefni0 decades - 91Godwin, Earl of Wessexnot measured-
- 92
Solomon ibn Gabirol8 decades - 93
Constantine X Doukas0 decades - 94
Michael VII Doukas0 decades - 95
Michael IV the Paphlagonian0 decades - 96
Canute IV of Denmark0 decades - 97
Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse0 decades - 98
Tughril13 decades - 99
Pope Gregory VI0 decades - 100
Peter Damian22 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.