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1830
Whose working lives fell in 1830. 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 1830, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
James K. Polk20 decades - 2
Thomas Carlyle20 decades - 3
Antonio José de Sucre21 decades - 4
Frederick William IV of Prussia21 decades - 5
Leopold von Ranke16 decades - 6
Anna Pavlovna of Russia0 decades - 7
Johns Hopkins21 decades - 8
Thomas Arnold22 decades - 9
Ernst Heinrich Weber15 decades - 10
Ary Scheffer19 decades - 11
Dingane kaSenzangakhona0 decades - 12
Gabriel Lamé0 decades - 13
George Peabody19 decades - 14
Saverio Mercadante20 decades - 15
Charles Barry19 decades - 16
Antoine-Louis Barye2 decades - 17
Hadji Murad5 decades - 18
James Braid7 decades - 19
Rowland Hill22 decades - 20
Charles Sturt11 decades - 21
Yagannot measured- - 22Maria Schicklgrubernot measured-
- 23
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavarianot measured- - 24Ghazi Muhammadnot measured-
- 25
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg7 decades
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.