← Fame through time1790-1799
The 1790s
Whose working lives fell in the 1790s. 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 1790s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart21 decades - 2
Marie Antoinette22 decades - 3
Maximilien Robespierre14 decades - 4
Alexander Hamilton22 decades - 5
William Blake22 decades - 6
James Monroe22 decades - 7
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson22 decades - 8
Friedrich Schiller22 decades - 9
Mary Wollstonecraft21 decades - 10
Robert Burns22 decades - 11
Hokusai14 decades - 12
Charles X of France22 decades - 13
Aaron Burr22 decades - 14
Joséphine de Beauharnais17 decades - 15
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayettenot measured- - 16
Louis XVIII of France22 decades - 17
William Pitt the Younger3 decades - 18
Georges Danton0 decades - 19
Pope Leo XII20 decades - 20
George IV of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 21
William Wilberforce22 decades - 22
Jean-Jacques Dessalines8 decades - 23
Charlotte Corday22 decades - 24
Johann Gottlieb Fichte22 decades - 25
Charles XIV John of Swedennot 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.