← 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 - 26
Alexander Griboyedov13 decades - 27
Cornelius Vanderbilt18 decades - 28
Jacob Grimm21 decades - 29
Carl Maria von Weber21 decades - 30
John James Audubon19 decades - 31
Nikolai Lobachevsky9 decades - 32
William II of the Netherlands0 decades - 33
John Vianney10 decades - 34
Théodore Géricault7 decades - 35
Georg Ohm12 decades - 36
Juan Manuel de Rosas20 decades - 37
William R. King20 decades - 38
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeldnot measured- - 39
Augustin-Louis Cauchy0 decades - 40
Louis Daguerre1 decades - 41
Ludwig I of Bavaria5 decades - 42
Guadalupe Victoria21 decades - 43
John Herschel0 decades - 44
John Franklin22 decades - 45
John Russell, 1st Earl Russellnot measured- - 46
Chief Seattle5 decades - 47
Joseph von Eichendorff15 decades - 48
Niels Henrik Abel1 decades - 49
George Everest2 decades - 50
François Guizot14 decades - 51
Matthew C. Perry9 decades - 52
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen0 decades - 53
Wilhelm Grimm22 decades - 54
François Arago18 decades - 55
Winfield Scott21 decades - 56
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt0 decades - 57
Christian VIII of Denmark0 decades - 58
Maria Leopoldina of Austria0 decades - 59
Bettina von Arnim18 decades - 60
Francesco Hayez20 decades - 61
George M. Dallas15 decades - 62
Wilhelm Hauff20 decades - 63
Joseph von Fraunhofer4 decades - 64
Thomas De Quincey17 decades - 65
Augustin-Jean Fresnel15 decades - 66
Dost Mohammad Khan0 decades - 67
Giacomo Meyerbeer15 decades - 68
José Antonio Páez21 decades - 69
Ranavalona I0 decades - 70
Carl Czerny15 decades - 71
Franz Grillparzer20 decades - 72
Sergey Aksakov12 decades - 73
Francisco de Paula Santander21 decades - 74
James Barry22 decades - 75
Carlos de Borbón y Borbón-Parma14 decades - 76
Jules Dumont d'Urville1 decades - 77
Friedrich List18 decades - 78
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart2 decades - 79
Karl Drais0 decades - 80
Mikhail Lazarev12 decades - 81
August Ferdinand Möbius3 decades - 82
Francisco Morazán14 decades - 83
Vuk Karadžić0 decades - 84
Friedrich Rückert22 decades - 85
Nangklao0 decades - 86
John William Polidori0 decades - 87
Anne Lister2 decades - 88
Kamehameha II1 decades - 89
Margaret Taylor11 decades - 90
Lin Tse-hsu10 decades - 91
Lucretia Mott18 decades
- 92
Ludwig Uhland21 decades - 93
Lady Caroline Lamb20 decades - 94
Silvio Pellico21 decades - 95
Horace Vernet22 decades - 96
Alexander Ypsilantis0 decades - 97
Pyotr Chaadayev10 decades - 98
Thaddeus Stevens19 decades - 99
John Martin22 decades - 100
Michel Eugène Chevreul1 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.