← 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
Bai Juyi8 decades - 2
Al-Ma'mun0 decades - 3
Han Yu7 decades - 4
Al-Jahiz0 decades - 5
Photios I of Constantinople0 decades - 6
Rudaki5 decades - 7
Einhard16 decades - 8
Sugawara no Michizane0 decades - 9
Ziryab0 decades - 10
Kassia4 decades - 11
Emperor Saga0 decades - 12
Ono no Komachi0 decades - 13
Clement of Ohrid0 decades - 14
Huang Chao6 decades - 15
Andal8 decades - 16
Yuan Zhennot measured- - 17
Li He6 decades - 18
Liu Yuxi7 decades - 19
Saint Cyril the Philosophernot measured- - 20Nennius22 decades
- 21
Lü Dongbin1 decades - 22Al-Baladhuri0 decades
- 23
Mansur Al-Hallaj0 decades - 24
Ibn Khordadbeh0 decades - 25
Anastasius Bibliothecarius2 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.