← 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
Louis the Pious21 decades - 3
Charles the Bald22 decades - 4
Charles the Fat19 decades - 5
Ruriknot measured- - 6
Lothair I0 decades - 7
Ecgberht, King of Wessex13 decades - 8
Basil I10 decades - 9
Louis the German20 decades - 10
Louis the Stammerer6 decades - 11
Arnulf of Carinthia11 decades - 12
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex1 decades - 13
Louis II of Italy0 decades - 14
Michael III21 decades - 15
Odonot measured- - 16
Kenneth MacAlpin0 decades - 17
Simeon I of Bulgaria0 decades - 18
Oleg of Novgorod0 decades - 19
Leo V the Armenian0 decades - 20
Louis III of France0 decades - 21
Æthelbald, King of Wessexnot measured- - 22
Constantine II of Scotland0 decades - 23
Pepin of Italy0 decades - 24
Ingólfr Arnarson0 decades - 25
Boris I of Bulgaria0 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.