← 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
Muhammad al-Idrisi0 decades - 2
Al-Khazini0 decades - 3Fan Chengdanot measured-
- 4Ibn al-'Awwam0 decades
- 5Nur ad-Din al-Bitrujinot measured-
- 6
Bénézet of Avignon0 decades - 7Robert of Ketton0 decades
- 8Fakhr-un-Nisa0 decades
- 9
Muhammad ibn Aslam Al-Ghafiqinot measured- - 10Al-Tighnarinot measured-
- 11
Plato Tiburtinus0 decades - 12Abu al-Salt0 decades
- 13Kamal al-Din bin Younisnot measured-
- 14Zhou Qufeinot measured-
- 15Badi' al-Asturlabinot measured-
- 16Henrik Harpestrængnot measured-
- 17Abū Ja'far Aḥmad ibn al‐Kammādnot measured-
- 18Oddi Helgason0 decades
- 19Ch'oe Yun-ŭinot measured-
- 20Guido of Pisanot measured-
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.