215,950 profiles ranked

← Fame through time1100-1199

The 12th century

Whose working lives fell in the 12th 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 12th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Pope Innocent III1160-1216 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  2. 2Pope Alexander III1100-1181 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Pope Honorius III1148-1227 · Italy · Religious Figures19 decades
  4. 4Pope Innocent II1100-1143 · Italy · Religious Figures13 decades
  5. 5Hugues de Payens1074-1136 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  6. 6Saint Rosalia1130-1170 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  7. 7Peter Lombard1100-1160 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  8. 8Pope Celestine III1106-1198 · Italy · Religious Figures2 decades
  9. 9Pope Gregory VIII1100-1187 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Pope Honorius II1100-1130 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Lucius III1110-1185 · Italy · Religious Figures3 decades
  12. 12Pope Celestine IIdied 1144 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Pope Anastasius IVdied 1154 · Italy · Religious Figures0 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.