Who was alive in 1170?

570 well-known people were alive in 1170, including Genghis Khan, Saladin, Averroes. Here are the 80 most notable:

Genghis Khan (1162–1227) — founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)
Saladin (1138–1193) — Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (1137–1193)
Averroes (1126–1198) — Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Zhu Xi (1130–1200) — Chinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty (1130–1200)
Fibonacci (1170–1240) — Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Richard I of England (1157–1199) — King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) — German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Moshe ben Maimon (1138–1204) — Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Innocent III (1160–1216) — Head of the Catholic Church from 1198 to 1216
John, King of England (1166–1216) — King of England from 1199 to 1216
Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1202) — Persian poet
Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) — Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
Alexander III (1100–1181) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
Henry II of England (1133–1189) — King of England from 1154 to 1189
Gregory IX (1170–1241) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241
Gregory VIII (1100–1187) — Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 1187
Philip II of France (1165–1223) — King of France, and the first to be called by that title (1165–1223)
Honorius III (1148–1227) — head of the Catholic Church from 1216 to 1227
Saint Dominic (1170–1221) — founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)
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)
Eugene III (1153–1200) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1145 to 1153
Chrétien de Troyes (1135–1181) — 12th century French poet and trouvère
Lucius III (1110–1185) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1181 to 1185 (1110–1185)
Clement III (1124–1191) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1188 to 1191
Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180) — Byzantine Emperor
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) — Persian Sufi poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)
Afonso I of Portugal (1109–1185) — king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
Thomas Becket (1119–1171) — English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) — Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
Saxo Grammaticus (1150–1206) — Danish historian
Shri Bhaskara II (Bhaskaracharya) (1114–1185) — Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early principles of calculus and solved indeterminate equations.
Tamar of Georgia (1166–1213) — Queen regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) — German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220) — German knight and poet (1170–1220)
Marie de France (1101–) — medieval poet
Henry VI (1165–1197) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185) — Byzantine emperor (1118–1185)
Sancho I of Portugal (1154–1211) — King of Portugal (1185–1211)
al-Jazari (1164–1206) — mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
Ibn Tufayl (1110–1185) — Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161–) — King of Jerusalem (1161-1185) (r. 1174-1185)
Henry the Lion (1129–1195) — Welf dynasty, Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII (1129-1195)
Henry the Young King (1155–1183) — second of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Alexios III Angelos (1153–1211) — Byzantine emperor
William of Tyre (1130–1186) — medieval prelate and chronicler, archbishop of Tyre
Alexios V Doukas (1140–1204) — Byzantine emperor
Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147–1199) — 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)
Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) — Occitan troubadour
William the Lion (1142–1214) — King of Alba from 1165 to 1214
Costanza I of Sicily (1154–1198) — Queen of Sicily
Isaac II Angelos (1155–1204) — Byzantine emperor (1155-1204)
Nur ad-Din (1118–1174) — Emir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus (1154–1174)
Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155–1214) — King of Castile (1155-1214)
Alexios II Komnenos (1169–1183) — Byzantine emperor
Guy of Lusignan (1129–1194) — French Poitevin knight and King of Jerusalem by right of marriage (c.1150–1194) (r. 1186–1192)
Muhammad of Ghor (1144–1206) — ruler of Ghurid Sultanate from 1173 to 1206
Niketas Choniates (1155–1217) — Greek historian (1155-1217)
Börte (1161–1230) — first wife of Genghis Khan
Saint Sava (1169–1235) — first archbishop of Serbs
Enrico Dandolo (1107–1205) — Doge of Venice (1107-1205)
Pérotin (1155–1230) — French composer
Alfonso II of Aragon (1157–1196) — Aragonese monarch (1157-1196)
Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182) — King of Denmark
Béla III of Hungary (1148–1196) — King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) — Islamic historian, theologian and geographer (1160–1232/3)
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) — English bishop and philosopher
Benjamin of Tudela (1130–1174) — Jewish explorer and writer
Stephen III of Hungary (1147–1172) — King of Hungary and Croatia (1147-1172)
Valdemar II of Denmark (1170–1241) — King of Denmark from 1202 to 1241
Albert the Bear (1100–1170) — 1st Margrave of Brandenburg (1157-70)
Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111–1174) — Russian Grand Prince
Qutb-ud-din Aibak (1150–1210) — founded of the Mamluk Dynasty (1150-1210)
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1150–1210) — 12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher
Léonin (1135–1201) — French 12th-century composer associated with polyphony in Notre Dame
Sibylla (1160–1190) — queen of Jerusalem (c.1160-1190) (r.1186-1190)
Jayadeva (1170–1245) — 12th century Sanskrit poet, best known for the "Gita Govinda"
Amalric I of Jerusalem (1136–1174) — King of Jerusalem (1136-1174) (r.1163-1174)
Bernard de Ventadour (1140–1190) — 12th-century troubador

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