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1100–1199

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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.

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  1. 1Minamoto no YoritomoMinamoto no Yoritomo1147–1199 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  2. 2Taira no KiyomoriTaira no Kiyomori1118–1181 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  3. 3Hōjō MasakoHōjō Masako1157–1225 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  4. 4Emperor KonoeEmperor Konoe1139–1155 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  5. 5Hōjō TokimasaHōjō Tokimasa1138–1215 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  6. 6Taira no TokikoTaira no Tokiko1126–1185 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politiciansnot measured—
  7. 7Hōjō YoshitokiHōjō Yoshitoki1163–1224 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politicians0 decades
  8. 8ITIchijō Takayoshi1176–1198 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politiciansnot measured—
  9. 9FNFujiwara no Arisukedied 1110 · 🇯🇵 Japan · Politiciansnot measured—

How this is measured

  • Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
  • Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
  • Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
  • What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.