← 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 Hebrew books during the 1810s, whenever they lived.
- 1Simeon ben Gamliel II26
- 2
Rav Ashi14 - 3Nathan the Babylonian14
- 4
Haggai8.7 - 5
Johanan ben Zakai5.9 - 6
Habakkuk3.4 - 7Simeon ben Zoma2.9
- 8
Menasseh Ben Israel2.8 - 9
Sabbatai Zevi2.4 - 10
Isaac Abrabanel2.2 - 11Yanai2.1
- 12Hanina ben Dosa2.0
- 13
Hillel the Elder1.9 - 14
Hai Gaon1.4 - 15Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg1.2
- 16Eleazar ben Arach1.2
- 17Saadia Gaon1.0
- 18Eliezer ben Hurcanus0.96
- 19Zerachiah haLevi of Girona0.57
- 20
Amram Gaon0.53 - 21Joseph Albo0.25
- 22
Eleazar ben Killir0.22 - 23
Moses Sofer0.20 - 24
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital0.19 - 25Samuel ibn Naghrillah0.17
- 26
Shimon bar Yochai0.15 - 27
Moshe Alshich0.13 - 28
Rabbeinu Tam0.13 - 29Mordecai Yoffe0.13
- 30Tobiah ben Eliezer0.13
- 31
Chaim ibn Attar0.13 - 32
Solomon Molcho0.12 - 33
Nathan of Gaza0.12 - 34
Chaim Joseph David Azulai0.09 - 35
Azariah dei Rossi0.09 - 36Joseph Kimhi0.08
- 37
Menaḥem ben Shelomoh Meʾiri0.08 - 38Bahya ben Asher0.06
- 39
Josephus0.05 - 40
Shalom Shabazi0.05 - 41
Abraham bar Hiyya0.04 - 42Isaac ben Moses Arama0.03
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
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.