← Fame through time1800-1809
The 1800s
Whose names filled the books of the 1800s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in Hebrew books during the 1800s, whenever they lived.
- 1Nathan the Babylonian14
- 2Simeon ben Gamliel II11
- 3
Haggai11 - 4
Habakkuk4.7 - 5
Johanan ben Zakai4.6 - 6
Rav Ashi4.5 - 7Simeon ben Zoma3.9
- 8Hanina ben Dosa2.2
- 9
Hillel the Elder2.1 - 10Yanai2.0
- 11Eliezer ben Hurcanus1.5
- 12Eleazar ben Arach1.2
- 13Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg1.1
- 14
Isaac Abrabanel0.49 - 15Joseph Albo0.45
- 16Saadia Gaon0.44
- 17Joseph Kimhi0.27
- 18
Hai Gaon0.27 - 19Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi0.27
- 20
Dunash ben Labrat0.26 - 21
Moshe Alshich0.26 - 22
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital0.20 - 23
Shimon bar Yochai0.17 - 24Isaac ben Moses Arama0.15
- 25Profiat Duran0.14
- 26Samuel ibn Naghrillah0.12
- 27Moses Kimhi0.12
- 28Isaac ibn Ezra0.09
- 29
Chaim Joseph David Azulai0.09 - 30
Amram Gaon0.08 - 31Zerachiah haLevi of Girona0.08
- 32
Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol0.08 - 33
Baal Shem Tov0.07 - 34
Shneur Zalman of Liadi0.05 - 35Bahya ben Asher0.05
- 36Mordecai Yoffe0.05
- 37
Menasseh Ben Israel0.05 - 38
Jacob ben Asher0.05 - 39Joseph Nasi0.05
- 40Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno0.05
- 41
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz0.05
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1800s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Napoleon22 decades - 2
Ludwig van Beethoven21 decades - 3
Andrew Jackson22 decades - 4
John Quincy Adams22 decades - 5
William Henry Harrison22 decades - 6
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel21 decades - 7
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellingtonnot measured- - 8
William Wordsworth22 decades - 9
Walter Scott22 decades - 10
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 11
Louis Philippe I19 decades - 12
Alexander von Humboldt8 decades - 13
Samuel Taylor Coleridge19 decades - 14
Caspar David Friedrich11 decades - 15
Klemens von Metternich0 decades - 16
Muhammad Ali of Egypt0 decades - 17
Joachim Murat21 decades - 18
François-René de Chateaubriand11 decades - 19
John Dalton22 decades - 20
Joseph Bonaparte22 decades - 21
Pope Gregory XVI19 decades - 22
Germaine de Staël10 decades - 23
Thomas Robert Malthus8 decades - 24
Frederick William III of Prussianot measured- - 25
Joseph Fourier11 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.