← 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
Abbas ibn Firnas0 decades - 2
Al-Battani0 decades - 3Thābit ibn Qurra0 decades
- 4
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhinot measured- - 5
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānīnot measured- - 6Abu Zayd al-Balkhi0 decades
- 7
Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarīnot measured- - 8
Istakhri8 decades - 9
Al-Fadl ibn Sahlnot measured- - 10Sind ibn Alinot measured-
- 11
Ibn al-Mundhir0 decades - 12Sahl ibn Bishr0 decades
- 13Ahmad Nahavandinot measured-
- 14Ibrāhīm al-khawāṣṣnot measured-
- 15Dungal of Bobbionot measured-
- 16Abu 'Ali al-Khaiyatnot measured-
- 17Govindasvāminot measured-
- 18Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūrnot measured-
- 19Hamdun al-Qassar0 decades
- 20Liang Lingzan0 decades
- 21
Albubather0 decades - 22Śaṅkaranārāyaṇanot 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.