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1825
Whose working lives fell in 1825. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1825, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John Tyler22 decades - 2
Leopold I of Belgiumnot measured- - 3
Alphonse de Lamartine20 decades - 4
Jean-François Champollion6 decades - 5
George Everest2 decades - 6
José Antonio Páez21 decades - 7
Jules Dumont d'Urville1 decades - 8
August Ferdinand Möbius3 decades - 9
Letitia Christian Tyler0 decades - 10
Sunjo of Joseonnot measured- - 11
Manuel Blanco Encalada21 decades - 12
John Austin22 decades - 13
Leopold, Grand Duke of Badennot measured- - 14
Adolph Diesterweg8 decades - 15
Astolphe-Louis-Léonor de Custine, Marquis de Custine10 decades - 16
Juan Álvarez Hurtadonot measured- - 17
Gideon Mantell2 decades - 18
Ferdinand Raimund19 decades - 19
Robert Stirling8 decades - 20
William Edward Parry4 decades - 21
Gezonot measured- - 22
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshirenot measured- - 23
Melchor Múzquiz16 decades - 24
Juan Álvarez Mendizábalnot measured- - 25
Keisai Eisennot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.