← 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
Maimonidesnot measured- - 2
Bernard of Clairvaux19 decades - 3
Peter Abelard20 decades - 4
Ismail al-Jazarinot measured- - 5
Bhāskara II0 decades - 6
Basava20 decades - 7
Judah Halevi0 decades - 8
Fakhr al-Din al-Razinot measured- - 9
Héloïse16 decades - 10
Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi0 decades - 11
Peter Waldo12 decades - 12
Joachim of Fiore5 decades - 13
Ibn Tumart2 decades - 14
Gorakhnath6 decades - 15
Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzinot measured- - 16
Hugh of Saint Victor1 decades - 17
Joannes Zonaras0 decades - 18
Avempace3 decades - 19
John of Salisbury22 decades - 20
Al-Zamakhshari0 decades - 21
Adelard of Bath10 decades - 22
Eustathius of Thessalonica0 decades - 23
Ibn Tufail0 decades - 24
Alain of Lille0 decades - 25
Hemachandra11 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.