← 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 - 26
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor2.6 - 27
James II, Count of Urgell2.6 - 28
Pericles2.5 - 29
Trajan2.5 - 30
Euclid2.4 - 31
Thucydides2.3 - 32
Pythagoras2.1 - 33
Solon2.1 - 34
Ahab2.1 - 35
Euripides2.0 - 36
Pindar2.0 - 37
Richard II2.0 - 38
Vespasian2.0 - 39
Julius Caesar1.9 - 40
Alcibiades1.9 - 41
Isaac Newton1.9 - 42
Hippocrates1.8 - 43
Alexander the Great1.8 - 44
John Bull1.8 - 45
Bede1.8 - 46
Aristophanes1.7 - 47
Sophocles1.7 - 48
Polybius1.7 - 49
Galen1.7 - 50
William Penn1.6 - 51
John Smith1.6 - 52
Themistocles1.5 - 53
William Jones1.5 - 54
Hesiod1.5 - 55
John Adams1.5 - 56
William the Conqueror1.4 - 57
Arrian1.4 - 58
Irenaeus1.4 - 59
Joshua Reynolds1.4 - 60
Ben Jonson1.4 - 61
Sallust1.4 - 62
Hosea1.4 - 63
William Henry1.4 - 64
Domitian1.3 - 65
Caligula1.3 - 66
Saladin1.3 - 67
Suetonius1.3 - 68
Archimedes1.3 - 69
Adam Smith1.2 - 70
Lucan1.2 - 71
Hadrian1.2 - 72
Epicurus1.2 - 73
Aurelian1.2 - 74
Oliver Cromwell1.2 - 75
Catiline1.1 - 76
Thomas More1.1 - 77
Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox1.1 - 78
Rembrandt1.1 - 79
Croesus1.1 - 80
Walter Raleigh1.1 - 81
Lucretius1.1 - 82
Rowland Hill1.1 - 83
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland1.0 - 84
Phidias1.0 - 85
Thomas Lawrence1.0 - 86
Edward the Confessor1.0 - 87
Horace Walpole1.00 - 88
Anacreon0.98 - 89
Theodoret0.98 - 90
Justin Martyr0.98 - 91
Apollos0.96 - 92
Hannah More0.95 - 93
Jehu0.94 - 94
Vitruvius0.93 - 95
Robert Walpole0.92 - 96
Appian0.92 - 97
George Washington0.92 - 98
Joseph Banks0.90 - 99
Diocletian0.90 - 100
Theophrastus0.90
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1830s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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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.