← Fame through time1830-1839
The 1830s
Whose names filled the books of the 1830s - 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 1830s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Jesus120 - 2
Homer14 - 3
Augustus13 - 4
Cicero12 - 5
Aristotle8.8 - 6
Plato8.7 - 7
Lord Byron8.5 - 8
Virgil7.7 - 9
Herodotus7.4 - 10
Walter Scott5.8 - 11
Socrates5.8 - 12
Plutarch5.7 - 13
Strabo5.1 - 14
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford4.8 - 15
Charlemagne4.7 - 16
Robert Peel4.4 - 17
Ovid4.0 - 18
Origen3.7 - 19
Demosthenes3.7 - 20
Livy3.4 - 21
Xenophon3.3 - 22
Tertullian3.2 - 23
Cleopatra2.8 - 24
John the Baptist2.8 - 25
Otho2.8
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1830s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alexander Pushkin21 decades - 2
Victor Hugo22 decades - 3
Alexandre Dumasnot measured- - 4
Mary Shelley16 decades - 5
James K. Polk20 decades - 6
George Sand20 decades - 7
Honoré de Balzac17 decades - 8
Millard Fillmore19 decades - 9
Franklin Pierce20 decades - 10
Ralph Waldo Emerson19 decades - 11
Nicholas I of Russia19 decades - 12
Benjamin Disraeli18 decades - 13
Giacomo Leopardi22 decades - 14
Heinrich Heine21 decades - 15
Nathaniel Hawthorne19 decades - 16
William I, German Emperornot measured- - 17
Eugène Delacroix20 decades - 18
Napoleon IInot measured- - 19
Hector Berlioz19 decades - 20
Thomas Carlyle20 decades - 21
Auguste Comte22 decades - 22
John Brownnot measured- - 23
Sojourner Truth13 decades - 24
Adolphe Thiers15 decades - 25
Pedro I of Brazil0 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.