← 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
Minamoto no Yoritomo0 decades - 2
Minamoto no Yoshitsune0 decades - 3
Tomoe Gozen0 decades - 4
Emperor Sutoku0 decades - 5
Musashibō Benkeinot measured- - 6
Antoku0 decades - 7
Taira no Kiyomori0 decades - 8
Go-Shirakawa1 decades - 9
Takakuranot measured- - 10
Tobanot measured- - 11
Minamoto no Yoshinaka0 decades - 12
Emperor Konoe0 decades - 13
Emperor Horikawa0 decades - 14
Nijōnot measured- - 15
Rokujō0 decades - 16
Hōjō Masako0 decades - 17
Fujiwara no Teika0 decades - 18
Eisai6 decades - 19
Hōnen1 decades - 20
Minamoto no Yoshitomo0 decades - 21
Saigyō0 decades - 22
Hōjō Tokimasa0 decades - 23
Kamo no Chōmei0 decades - 24
Minamoto no Yorimasa0 decades - 25
Taira no Munemori0 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.