← 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 Hebrew books during the 1820s, whenever they lived.
- 1Nathan the Babylonian14
- 2Simeon ben Gamliel II11
- 3
Haggai11 - 4
Johanan ben Zakai3.9 - 5Simeon ben Zoma2.9
- 6
Chaim Joseph David Azulai2.8 - 7
Habakkuk2.6 - 8
Rav Ashi1.6 - 9Eliezer ben Hurcanus1.0
- 10Eleazar ben Arach0.93
- 11Hanina ben Dosa0.87
- 12Yanai0.86
- 13Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg0.84
- 14
Hai Gaon0.78 - 15
Menasseh Ben Israel0.76 - 16
Isaac Abrabanel0.73 - 17Saadia Gaon0.61
- 18
Hillel the Elder0.53 - 19
Azariah dei Rossi0.53 - 20
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital0.50 - 21
Paul the Apostle0.45 - 22Mordecai Yoffe0.41
- 23Isaac ben Moses Arama0.36
- 24Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi0.33
- 25Joseph Kimhi0.33
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1820s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Lord 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.