← 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 - 26
Évariste Galois6 decades - 27
Brigham Young19 decades - 28
John Henry Newman19 decades - 29
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder13 decades - 30
Antonio José de Sucre21 decades - 31
Fyodor Tyutchev11 decades - 32
Mikhail Glinka12 decades - 33
Frederick William IV of Prussia21 decades - 34
William H. Seward19 decades - 35
Mary Anning5 decades - 36
Ludwig Feuerbach19 decades - 37
Ghalib21 decades - 38
Oscar I of Sweden0 decades - 39
Prosper Mérimée19 decades - 40
Adam Mickiewicz12 decades - 41
Georg Büchner17 decades - 42
Vincenzo Bellini22 decades - 43
Mongkut12 decades - 44
Gaetano Donizetti19 decades - 45
Justus von Liebig17 decades - 46
Karl Bryullov11 decades - 47
Vladimir Dal10 decades - 48
Thomas Babington Macaulaynot measured- - 49
Kaspar Hauser19 decades - 50
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnotnot measured- - 51
Charles Albert of Sardinia18 decades - 52
Hiroshigenot measured- - 53
Johann Strauss Inot measured- - 54
Edward Bulwer-Lytton5 decades - 55
Jules Michelet15 decades - 56
Lajos Kossuth7 decades - 57
Frédéric Bastiat18 decades - 58
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot7 decades - 59
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria0 decades - 60
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi1 decades - 61
Pavel Nakhimov11 decades - 62
Allan Kardec16 decades - 63
Leopold von Ranke16 decades - 64
Richard Owennot measured- - 65
Charles Goodyear19 decades - 66
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff14 decades - 67
David Farragut4 decades - 68
Horace Mann22 decades - 69
James Clark Ross18 decades - 70
Thomas Colenot measured- - 71
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben6 decades - 72
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derbynot measured- - 73
Nat Turner17 decades - 74
Emperor Ninkōnot measured- - 75
Anna Pavlovna of Russia0 decades - 76
Alfred de Vigny20 decades - 77
Christian Doppler8 decades - 78
Harriet Martineau19 decades - 79
Miguel I of Portugal0 decades - 80
James Bowie18 decades - 81
Charles Lyell21 decades - 82
Eduard Mörike18 decades - 83
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuvenot measured- - 84
Charles Lucien Bonaparte0 decades - 85
Friedrich Wöhler17 decades - 86
Napoléon Louis Bonaparte0 decades - 87
Eugène Sue20 decades - 88
Manuela Sáenz15 decades - 89
Alexander Gorchakov11 decades - 90
Justo José de Urquiza20 decades - 91
Yevgeny Baratynsky6 decades - 92
Robert Stephenson22 decades - 93
Adolphe Adam19 decades - 94
Juan José Flores21 decades - 95
William Henry Fox Talbot6 decades - 96
Flora Tristan13 decades - 97
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany18 decades - 98
Joseph Henry22 decades - 99
Mariano José de Larra19 decades - 100
James Brooke22 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.