Who was alive in 1120?

495 well-known people were alive in 1120, including Omar Khayyám, Hildegard of Bingen, Peter Abelard. Here are the 80 most notable:

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) — Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) — German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) — French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) — Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti (1110–1165) — andalusian geographer (1100–1165)
Alexander III (1100–1181) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
Henry I of England (1068–1135) — King of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
Gregory VIII (1100–1187) — Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 1187
Callixtus II (1065–1124) — Pope from 1119 to 1124
Celestine III (1106–1198) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198
Louis VII of France (1120–1180) — King of France from 1137 to 1180 (1120–1180)
Lucius III (1110–1185) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1181 to 1185 (1110–1185)
Innocent II (1100–1143) — Pope of the Catholic Church (1130–1143)
Lucius II (1050–1145) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180) — Byzantine Emperor
Honorius II (1100–1130) — Pope from 1124 to 1130
Anna Komnene (1083–1153) — Byzantine princess and historian
Stephen, King of England (1095–1154) — King of England from 1135 to 1154
Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100–1155) — Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)
Afonso I of Portugal (1109–1185) — king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
Thomas Becket (1119–1171) — English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170
Empress Matilda (1102–1167) — Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
Louis VI of France (1081–1137) — king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137
Shri Bhaskara II (Bhaskaracharya) (1114–1185) — Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early principles of calculus and solved indeterminate equations.
Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) — Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist (1078–1166)
Marie de France (1101–) — medieval poet
John II Komnenos (1087–1143) — Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1144
Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185) — Byzantine emperor (1118–1185)
Vladimir II Monomakh (1053–1125) — Grand Prince of Kiev (1053-1125)
Henry V (1086–1125) — King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty
Avempace (1095–1139) — Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
David IV of Georgia (1073–1125) — King of Georgia (1073-1125)
David I of Scotland (1084–1153) — King of Alba from 1124 to 1153
Conrad III of Germany (1093–1152) — Hohenstaufen dynasty king (r. 1138–1152)
Roger II of Sicily (1095–1154) — King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154
Ibn Tufayl (1110–1185) — Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151) — Duke of Normandy
Yuri Dolgorukiy (1090–1157) — Grand Prince of Kyiv (1095-1157)
Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167) — 12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
Robert Curthose (1051–1134) — Duke of Normandy
Hasan-i Sabbah (1037–1124) — The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
Edgar Ætheling (1050–1125) — disputed King of England
John Zonaras (1074–1145) — 12th century Byzantine chronicler and theologian
Judah Halevi (1075–1141) — Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician (c.1075–1141)
Lothair III (1075–1137) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1133 to 1137
Imad ad-Din Zengi (1087–1146) — Zengid ruler
Nur ad-Din (1118–1174) — Emir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus (1154–1174)
Ahmad Sanjar (1084–1157) — Seljuk sultan (1097–1157)
Peter Lombard (1100–1160) — medieval priest and theologian
Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1075–1131) — Count of Edessa (r. 1100-1118) and King of Jerusalem (r. 1118–1131)
Enrico Dandolo (1107–1205) — Doge of Venice (1107-1205)
Milarepa (1040–1123) — Tibetan yogi
Alexander I of Scotland (1078–1124) — King of the Scots (1078-1124)
Suryavarman II (1094–1150) — Cambodian king (1094-1150)
Béla II of Hungary (1108–1141) — Hungarian king (1108-1141)
Cosmas of Prague (1045–1125) — Bohemian priest (c.1045–1125)
Guillaume IX (1071–1126) — Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
Alphonse I of Aragon (1073–1134) — King of Aragon Navarre, Leon, Castile, Toledo
Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086–1138) — duke of Poland between 1107 and 1138
Héloïse d’Argenteuil (1101–1164) — 12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer
Alfonso VII of Castile (1105–1157) — Castilian monarch
Eric IX of Sweden (1120–1160) — 12th-century Swedish King and Saint
Li Qingzhao (1084–1155) — Chinese Song Dynasty poet, known as "the most talented woman in all ages"
Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092–1143) — Count of Anjou (r. 1109-1129) and the King of Jerusalem (r.1131-1143)
Albert the Bear (1100–1170) — 1st Margrave of Brandenburg (1157-70)
Stephen II of Hungary (1101–1131) — King of Hungary from 1116 to 1131
Matilda of Boulogne (1105–1152) — Countess of Boulogne and Queen Consort of England (1105-1152)
Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111–1174) — Russian Grand Prince
Abbot Suger (1080–1151) — French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
Sigurd the Crusader (1089–1130) — King of Norway from 1103 to 1130
Urraca of León (1081–1126) — Spanish queen
Khoja Akhmet Yassawi (1100–1166) — Sufi Poet
Melisende (1105–1161) — Queen of Jerusalem (1105-1161)
Emperor Huizong of Song (1082–1135) — emperor of the Song Dynasty (1082-1135)
William of Malmesbury (1095–1143) — English monk and chronicler (c.1095 – c.1143)
Stefan Nemanja (1114–1199) — Grand Prince of Serbia, founder of the Nemanjić dynasty
Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132) — grand prince of Kiev (1076–1132)
Ramiro II of Aragon (1080–1157) — King of Aragon and monk
Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) — German-French canon regular and theologian
Otto of Freising (1111–1158) — Austrian medieval chronicler

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