← 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 - 26
Louis the Stammerer6 decades - 27
Arnulf of Carinthia11 decades - 28
Pope Sergius III0 decades - 29
Al-Tabari2 decades - 30
Pope Leo V0 decades - 31
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex1 decades - 32
Louis II of Italy0 decades - 33
Abbas ibn Firnas0 decades - 34
Michael III21 decades - 35
Pope Boniface VI0 decades - 36
Odonot measured- - 37
John Scotus Eriugena0 decades - 38
Kenneth MacAlpin0 decades - 39
Simeon I of Bulgaria0 decades - 40
Han Yu7 decades - 41
Árpádnot measured- - 42
Al-Jahiz0 decades - 43
Pope Theodore II0 decades - 44
Pope Valentine0 decades - 45
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj0 decades - 46
Pope Romanus0 decades - 47
Photios I of Constantinople0 decades - 48
Budainot measured- - 49
Pope Gregory IV1 decades - 50
Kūkai3 decades - 51
Oleg of Novgorod0 decades - 52
Leo V the Armenian0 decades - 53
Louis III of France0 decades - 54
Berengar I of Italy0 decades - 55
Æthelberht, King of Wessexnot measured- - 56
Pope John IX0 decades - 57
Æthelbald, King of Wessexnot measured- - 58
Constantine II of Scotland0 decades - 59
Michael II17 decades - 60
Pope Benedict III0 decades - 61
Pope Paschal I13 decades - 62
Al-Mu'tasim0 decades - 63
Michael I Rangabe0 decades - 64
Pope Stephen V0 decades - 65
Hasan al-Askari0 decades - 66
Al-Mutawakkil0 decades - 67
Pope Sergius II0 decades - 68
Pepin of Italy0 decades - 69
Pope Stephen IV0 decades - 70
Pope Adrian II0 decades - 71
Guy III of Spoletonot measured- - 72
Ingólfr Arnarson0 decades - 73
Al-Amin3 decades - 74
Staurakios0 decades - 75
Boris I of Bulgaria0 decades - 76
Carloman II0 decades - 77
Rudaki5 decades - 78
Ali al-Hadi0 decades - 79
Babak Khorramdin0 decades - 80
Al-Tirmidhi0 decades - 81
Alfonso III of Asturias0 decades - 82
Einhard16 decades - 83
Sugawara no Michizane0 decades - 84
Muhammad al-Jawad0 decades - 85
Causantín mac Cináedanot measured- - 86
Pope John X0 decades - 87
Ansgarnot measured- - 88
Carloman of Bavaria0 decades - 89
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eyenot measured- - 90
Lothair II of Lotharingia0 decades - 91
Rabanus Maurus22 decades - 92
Al-Battani0 decades - 93
Bayazid Bastami0 decades - 94
Pepin the Hunchback0 decades - 95
Bernard of Italy0 decades - 96
Judith of Flanders0 decades - 97
Edmund the Martyr2 decades - 98
Donald II of Scotlandnot measured- - 99
Ziryab0 decades - 100
Ællanot 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.