← 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 French books during the 1830s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Voltaire36 - 2
Louis XIV of France32 - 3
Louis XVI of France16 - 4
Louis XV of France9.2 - 5
Molière9.1 - 6
Louis XVIII of France8.4 - 7
Charles X of France7.4 - 8
Montesquieu7.3 - 9
Louis XII of France6.7 - 10
François Fénelon3.0 - 11
Philip V of Spain2.6 - 12
Francis II of France2.1 - 13
Francis de Sales2.1 - 14
Marie Antoinette2.0 - 15
Victor Hugo1.9 - 16
Pope Julius II1.9 - 17
Benjamin Constant1.8 - 18
Marie de' Medici1.8 - 19
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme1.7 - 20
Joan of Arc1.6 - 21
Vincent de Paul1.2 - 22
Camille Desmoulins1.0 - 23
Anne of Brittany0.82 - 24
Pope John XXII0.81 - 25
Firmin Didot0.80
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1830s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alexander Pushkin21 decades - 2Victor 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.