← 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.
- 1
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 - 26
Isaac Newton3.0 - 27
Pericles3.0 - 28
Lord Byron2.9 - 29
Trajan2.8 - 30
Julius Caesar2.7 - 31
William Jones2.6 - 32
John the Baptist2.6 - 33
Tertullian2.6 - 34
Vespasian2.5 - 35
Aristophanes2.5 - 36
Solon2.5 - 37
Otho2.5 - 38
Lucan2.5 - 39
Sophocles2.5 - 40
Hippocrates2.4 - 41
Ben Jonson2.3 - 42
Joseph Banks2.3 - 43
Richard II2.3 - 44
Alcibiades2.3 - 45
Hesiod2.2 - 46
Bede2.2 - 47
Alexander the Great2.2 - 48
Thucydides2.2 - 49
Lucretius2.0 - 50
Ahab2.0 - 51
William the Conqueror2.0 - 52
Oliver Cromwell2.0 - 53
Galen2.0 - 54
Domitian1.9 - 55
John Smith1.8 - 56
Themistocles1.8 - 57
Polybius1.8 - 58
Suetonius1.8 - 59
Warren Hastings1.7 - 60
Epicurus1.7 - 61
Archimedes1.6 - 62
Quintilian1.6 - 63
Theocritus1.6 - 64
Joshua Reynolds1.5 - 65
William Penn1.5 - 66
Walter Scott1.5 - 67
Arrian1.5 - 68
John Bull1.5 - 69
Catiline1.5 - 70
Anacreon1.5 - 71
Adam Smith1.4 - 72
Sallust1.4 - 73
Edward the Confessor1.4 - 74
Plautus1.4 - 75
Caligula1.3 - 76
Persius1.3 - 77
Thomas More1.3 - 78
Walter Raleigh1.3 - 79Suidas1.3
- 80
Germanicus1.3 - 81
Vitruvius1.3 - 82
Sidney Smith1.2 - 83
Hadrian1.2 - 84
Richard III1.2 - 85
William Henry1.2 - 86
Sappho1.2 - 87
Diodorus Siculus1.2 - 88
Vitellius1.2 - 89
Theophrastus1.2 - 90
Phidias1.2 - 91
Hosea1.2 - 92
Galba1.2 - 93
Tibullus1.2 - 94
Catullus1.1 - 95
Nicias1.1 - 96
Thomas Smith1.1 - 97
Rowland Hill1.1 - 98
Edward Coke1.1 - 99
Irenaeus1.1 - 100
Sejanus1.0
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1810s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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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
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.