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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 Italian books during the 1830s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Antonio da Correggio1489-1534 · 16th century · Italy · Artists5.8
  2. 2Giotto1267-1337 · 14th century · Italy · Artists4.0
  3. 3Pietro Perugino1448-1523 · 15th century · Italy · Artists2.9
  4. 4Caravaggio1571-1610 · 17th century · Italy · Artists2.6
  5. 5Andrea Doria1466-1560 · 16th century · Italy · Politicians2.6
  6. 6Lorenzo de' Medici1449-1492 · 15th century · Politicians2.5
  7. 7Donato Bramante1444-1514 · 15th century · Italy · Architects2.4
  8. 8Tintoretto1519-1594 · 16th century · Italy · Artists2.3
  9. 9Paul the Deacon720-799 · 8th century · Writers2.2
  10. 10Apostolo Zeno1668-1750 · 18th century · Writers2.2
  11. 11Torquato Tasso1544-1595 · 16th century · Italy · Writers2.2
  12. 12Domenichino1581-1641 · 17th century · Artists2.1
  13. 13Charles Borromeo1538-1584 · 16th century · Italy · Religious Figures1.9
  14. 14Guercino1591-1666 · 17th century · Italy · Artists1.9
  15. 15Philip Neri1515-1595 · 16th century · Religious Figures1.8
  16. 16Dante Alighieri1265-1321 · 14th century · Writers1.8
  17. 17Cimabue1240-1302 · 13th century · Artists1.7
  18. 18Giulio Romano1499-1546 · 16th century · Italy · Artists1.7
  19. 19Prospero Colonna1452-1523 · 15th century1.5
  20. 20Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519 · 15th century · Italy · Artists1.5
  21. 21Cosimo de' Medici1389-1464 · 15th century · Politicians1.4
  22. 22Pinturicchio1454-1513 · 15th century · Italy · Artists1.4
  23. 23Marco Polo1254-1324 · 13th century · Italy · Historical Figures1.2
  24. 24Petrarch1304-1374 · 14th century · Italy · Academics1.2
  25. 25Donatello1386-1466 · 15th century · Artists1.2
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1830s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Alexander Pushkin1799-1837 · Russia · Writers21 decades
  2. 2Victor Hugo1802-1885 · France · Writers22 decades
  3. 3Alexandre Dumas1802-1870 · France · Writersnot measured-
  4. 4Mary Shelley1797-1851 · United Kingdom · Writers16 decades
  5. 5James K. Polk1795-1849 · United States · Politicians20 decades
  6. 6George Sand1804-1876 · France · Writers20 decades
  7. 7Honoré de Balzac1799-1850 · France · Writers17 decades
  8. 8Millard Fillmore1800-1874 · United States · Politicians19 decades
  9. 9Franklin Pierce1804-1869 · United States · Politicians20 decades
  10. 10Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882 · United States · Academics19 decades
  11. 11Nicholas I of Russia1796-1855 · Russia · Models19 decades
  12. 12Benjamin Disraeli1804-1881 · Politicians18 decades
  13. 13Giacomo Leopardi1798-1837 · Italy · Writers22 decades
  14. 14Heinrich Heine1797-1856 · France · Writers21 decades
  15. 15Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864 · United States · Writers19 decades
  16. 16William I, German Emperor1797-1888 · Germany · Historical Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Eugène Delacroix1798-1863 · France · Artists20 decades
  18. 18Napoleon II1811-1832 · France · Designersnot measured-
  19. 19Hector Berlioz1803-1869 · France · Musicians19 decades
  20. 20Thomas Carlyle1795-1881 · United Kingdom · Writers20 decades
  21. 21Auguste Comte1798-1857 · France · Academics22 decades
  22. 22John Brown1800-1859 · United States · Foundersnot measured-
  23. 23Sojourner Truth1797-1883 · United States · Writers13 decades
  24. 24Adolphe Thiers1797-1877 · France · Politicians15 decades
  25. 25Pedro I of Brazil1798-1834 · Portugal · Historical Figures0 decades
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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.