← 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
Adi Shankara0 decades - 2
Muhammad al-Bukharinot measured- - 3
Ahmad ibn Hanbal2 decades - 4
Al-Kindi7 decades - 5
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizminot measured- - 6
Al-Tabari2 decades - 7
John Scotus Eriugena0 decades - 8
Budainot measured- - 9
Kūkai3 decades - 10
Hasan al-Askari0 decades - 11
Ali al-Hadi0 decades - 12
Muhammad al-Jawad0 decades - 13
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi0 decades - 14
Junayd of Baghdad0 decades - 15
Linji Yixuannot measured- - 16Ibn al-Rawandi0 decades
- 17
Al-Shafi‘inot measured- - 18
Ibn Qutaybah0 decades - 19
Saichō0 decades - 20Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslamnot measured-
- 21al-Yaʿqubinot measured-
- 22
Abu Dawood1 decades - 23Ibn Nusayr0 decades
- 24
Mahāvīra9 decades - 25Ratramnus11 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.