← Fame through time1810-1819
The 1810s
Whose names filled the books of the 1810s - 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 English books during the 1810s, whenever they lived.
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Jesus123 - 2
Homer20 - 3
Cicero17 - 4
Virgil16 - 5
Augustus14 - 6
Aristotle12 - 7
Plato11 - 8
Plutarch8.0 - 9
Socrates7.2 - 10
Ovid7.2 - 11
Strabo6.4 - 12
Herodotus6.2 - 13
Demosthenes4.4 - 14
Livy4.1 - 15
Origen3.9 - 16
Charlemagne3.9 - 17
Xenophon3.8 - 18
Cleopatra3.3 - 19
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor3.3 - 20
Pindar3.3 - 21
Euripides3.2 - 22
Pythagoras3.2 - 23
James II, Count of Urgell3.2 - 24
Euclid3.2 - 25
Robert Walpole3.1
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1810s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jane Austen19 decades - 2
Simón Bolívar21 decades - 3
Martin Van Buren21 decades - 4
Zachary Taylor18 decades - 5
Carl Friedrich Gauss11 decades - 6
Alexander I of Russia21 decades - 7
José de San Martín21 decades - 8
Stendhal22 decades - 9
Carl von Clausewitz12 decades - 10
J. M. W. Turner22 decades - 11
Niccolò Paganini18 decades - 12
Washington Irving22 decades - 13
Ferdinand VII of Spain19 decades - 14
John C. Calhoun22 decades - 15
E. T. A. Hoffmann21 decades - 16
Heinrich von Kleist22 decades - 17
Bahadur Shah Zafar6 decades - 18
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerstonnot measured- - 19
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresnot measured- - 20
Louis Bonaparte22 decades - 21
Bernardo O'Higgins21 decades - 22
Agustín I of Mexico0 decades - 23
Sacagawea9 decades - 24
Ugo Foscolo22 decades - 25
Ranjit Singh18 decades - 26
Kamehameha I13 decades - 27
André-Marie Ampère15 decades - 28
Vasily Zhukovsky16 decades - 29
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbournenot measured- - 30
Humphry Davy22 decades - 31
Marie Thérèse of Francenot measured- - 32
John Constable22 decades - 33
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling9 decades - 34
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême2 decades - 35
George Stephenson22 decades - 36
Amedeo Avogadro19 decades - 37
Sophie Germain18 decades - 38
Vicente Guerrero21 decades - 39
Louisa Adams0 decades - 40
Henry Clay22 decades - 41
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia20 decades - 42
Thomas Stamford Raffles6 decades - 43
Daoguang Emperor4 decades - 44
Jérôme Bonaparte22 decades - 45
Hans Christian Ørsted0 decades - 46
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz0 decades - 47
Eugène de Beauharnais21 decades - 48
Marie-Antoine Carême0 decades - 49
Friedrich Fröbel18 decades - 50
Karl Friedrich Schinkel16 decades - 51
Hortense de Beauharnais20 decades - 52
Désirée Clary14 decades - 53
Ioannis Kapodistriasnot measured- - 54
Thomas Moore22 decades - 55
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen2 decades - 56
Daniel O'Connell22 decades - 57
Charles Lamb22 decades - 58
Lucien Bonaparte22 decades - 59
Caroline Bonaparte18 decades - 60
Francis Scott Key14 decades - 61
Pauline Bonaparte20 decades - 62
Eugène François Vidocq0 decades - 63
Richard Mentor Johnson0 decades - 64
Sarah Baartman0 decades - 65
René Laennec0 decades - 66
Andrés Bello22 decades - 67
Mary Somerville11 decades - 68
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicilynot measured- - 69
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothanot measured- - 70
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussacnot measured- - 71
Jöns Jacob Berzelius0 decades - 72
William Hazlitt21 decades - 73
Clemens Brentano22 decades - 74
Swaminarayan6 decades - 75
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeennot measured- - 76
Bernardino Rivadavia21 decades - 77
Johann Nepomuk Hummel8 decades - 78
Carlota Joaquina of Spain14 decades - 79
Francis I of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 80
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn22 decades - 81
Rafael del Riego21 decades - 82
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt0 decades - 83
Adelbert von Chamisso19 decades - 84
William Buckland14 decades - 85
Elizabeth Alexeievna0 decades - 86
Elisa Bonaparte4 decades - 87
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden8 decades
- 88
Ching Shihnot measured- - 89
Friedrich Carl von Savigny15 decades - 90
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry1 decades - 91
Wilhelm I of Württembergnot measured- - 92
Ludwig Achim von Arnim22 decades - 93
Hugh Glass5 decades - 94
Bernard Bolzano14 decades - 95
Catherine Pavlovna of Russia21 decades - 96
Roger B. Taney19 decades - 97
Princess Charlotte of Wales1 decades - 98
Juliette Récamier12 decades - 99
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov12 decades - 100
Friedrich Bessel8 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.