← Fame through time1820-1829
The 1820s
Whose names filled the books of the 1820s - 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 1820s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Jesus121 - 2
Homer19 - 3
Cicero16 - 4
Virgil14 - 5
Augustus13 - 6
Lord Byron12 - 7
Plato10 - 8
Aristotle9.9 - 9
Plutarch8.2 - 10
Herodotus7.7 - 11
Socrates7.0 - 12
Ovid6.3 - 13
Strabo6.0 - 14
Demosthenes5.7 - 15
Livy4.6 - 16
Cleopatra4.4 - 17
Xenophon4.2 - 18
Tertullian4.1 - 19
Origen4.0 - 20
Charlemagne4.0 - 21
Pericles3.4 - 22
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor3.3 - 23
Walter Scott3.1 - 24
James II, Count of Urgell3.0 - 25
Trajan2.9
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1820s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1Lord Byron22 decades
- 2
Arthur Schopenhauer20 decades - 3
James Buchanan22 decades - 4
John Tyler22 decades - 5
Percy Bysshe Shelley21 decades - 6
Franz Schubert22 decades - 7
Michael Faraday20 decades - 8
John Keats21 decades - 9
Pope Pius IX18 decades - 10
Charles Babbage20 decades - 11
Shaka22 decades - 12
Gioachino Rossini20 decades - 13
Leopold I of Belgiumnot measured- - 14
Alessandro Manzoni22 decades - 15
Antonio López de Santa Anna18 decades - 16
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma18 decades - 17
Ferdinand I of Austrianot measured- - 18
Robert Peel22 decades - 19
Samuel Morse0 decades - 20
Mahmud II14 decades - 21
James Fenimore Cooper18 decades - 22
Alphonse de Lamartine20 decades - 23
Sam Houston20 decades - 24
Jean-François Champollion6 decades - 25
Davy Crockett19 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.