← Fame through time800-899
The 9th century
Whose working lives fell in the 9th 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 9th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alfred the Great22 decades - 2
Adi Shankara0 decades - 3
Louis the Pious21 decades - 4
Harun al-Rashid9 decades - 5
Charles the Bald22 decades - 6
Muhammad al-Bukharinot measured- - 7
Pope Formosus1 decades - 8
Ahmad ibn Hanbal2 decades - 9
Charles the Fat19 decades - 10
Ruriknot measured- - 11
Al-Kindi7 decades - 12
Pope John VIII9 decades - 13
Pope Stephen VI0 decades - 14
Lothair I0 decades - 15
Ecgberht, King of Wessex13 decades - 16
Basil I10 decades - 17
Pope Leo IV5 decades - 18
Louis the German20 decades - 19
Rollonot measured- - 20
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizminot measured- - 21
Bai Juyi8 decades - 22
Harald Fairhair3 decades - 23
Robert I of France0 decades - 24
Al-Ma'mun0 decades - 25
Pope Nicholas I0 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.