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The 1840s

Whose names filled the books of the 1840s - 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 Spanish books during the 1840s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1John of Austria1547-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians6.5
  2. 2Francis Xavier1506-1552 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures5.2
  3. 3Lope de Vega1562-1635 · 16th century · Spain · Writers5.0
  4. 4John of God1495-1550 · 16th century · Portugal4.4
  5. 5Nicolás Antonio1617-1684 · 17th century · Spain · Politicians2.5
  6. 6John I of France1316-1316 · 14th century · France · Historical Figures2.5
  7. 7Juan López de Padilla1490-1521 · 16th century · Activists2.1
  8. 8Francisco Pizarro1478-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.8
  9. 9Wittiza686-710 · 8th century · Historical Figures1.5
  10. 10Hernando Pizarro1502-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.4
  11. 11Pope Alexander VI1431-1503 · 15th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.4
  12. 12Manuel Godoy1767-1851 · 19th century · Spain · Politicians1.4
  13. 13Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain1549-1580 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians1.4
  14. 14Gonzalo Pizarro1502-1548 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.4
  15. 15Vincent Ferrer1350-1419 · 14th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.2
  16. 16Pedro de Alvarado1486-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.2
  17. 17Ambrosio de Morales1513-1591 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.1
  18. 18Ignatius of Loyola1491-1556 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures0.99
  19. 19Garcilaso de la Vega1503-1536 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.99
  20. 20Tirso de Molina1583-1648 · 17th century · Spain · Writers0.96
  21. 21Juan Bravo1483-1521 · 16th century · Politicians0.93
  22. 22Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.90
  23. 23Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara1793-1879 · 19th century · Spain · Historical Figures0.89
  24. 24Diego de Almagro1475-1538 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures0.88
  25. 25Lope de Rueda1505-1566 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.75
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1840s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Abraham Lincoln1809-1865 · United States · Politicians22 decades
  2. 2Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849 · United States · Writers17 decades
  3. 3Charles Dickens1812-1870 · United Kingdom · Writers20 decades
  4. 4Charles Darwin1809-1882 · United Kingdom · Scientists21 decades
  5. 5Frédéric Chopin1810-1849 · France · Musicians16 decades
  6. 6Richard Wagner1813-1883 · Germany · Musicians19 decades
  7. 7Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875 · Denmark · Writers18 decades
  8. 8Andrew Johnson1808-1875 · United States · Politicians22 decades
  9. 9Nikolai Gogol1809-1852 · Russia · Writers19 decades
  10. 10Napoleon III1808-1873 · France · Politicians21 decades
  11. 11Pope Leo XIII1810-1903 · Italy · Religious Figures15 decades
  12. 12Søren Kierkegaard1813-1855 · Denmark · Academics3 decades
  13. 13Emily Brontë1818-1848 · United Kingdom · Writers14 decades
  14. 14Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882 · France11 decades
  15. 15Joseph Smith1805-1844 · United States · Politicians22 decades
  16. 16Mikhail Lermontov1814-1841 · Russia · Writers15 decades
  17. 17Robert E. Lee1807-1870 · United States16 decades
  18. 18Giuseppe Verdi1813-1901 · Italy · Musicians18 decades
  19. 19Franz Liszt1811-1886 · Austria · Musicians19 decades
  20. 20John Stuart Mill1806-1873 · United Kingdom · Academics18 decades
  21. 21Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847 · Musicians18 decades
  22. 22P. T. Barnum1810-1891 · United States · Politicians17 decades
  23. 23Robert Schumann1810-1856 · Germany · Musicians19 decades
  24. 24Jefferson Davis1808-1889 · United States · Politicians20 decades
  25. 25Taras Shevchenko1814-1861 · Russia · Writers13 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.