← Fame through time1840-1849
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 Hebrew books during the 1840s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Habakkuk15 - 2
Haggai13 - 3Simeon ben Gamliel II12
- 4Nathan the Babylonian11
- 5
Rav Ashi8.3 - 6
Johanan ben Zakai5.0 - 7Joseph Caspi3.2
- 8
Hillel the Elder3.0 - 9Saadia Gaon2.8
- 10Simeon ben Zoma2.5
- 11
Hai Gaon2.0 - 12Hanina ben Dosa1.6
- 13
Abraham bar Hiyya1.4 - 14Samuel ibn Naghrillah1.3
- 15
Menasseh Ben Israel1.1 - 16Eliezer ben Hurcanus0.94
- 17
Isaac Abrabanel0.87 - 18Joseph Kimhi0.85
- 19Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg0.66
- 20Eleazar ben Arach0.63
- 21
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital0.57 - 22
Moshe Alshich0.53 - 23Isaac ben Moses Arama0.48
- 24Joseph Albo0.46
- 25
Chaim Joseph David Azulai0.46
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1840s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Abraham Lincoln22 decades - 2
Edgar Allan Poe17 decades - 3
Charles Dickens20 decades - 4
Charles Darwin21 decades - 5
Frédéric Chopin16 decades - 6
Richard Wagner19 decades - 7
Hans Christian Andersen18 decades - 8
Andrew Johnson22 decades - 9
Nikolai Gogol19 decades - 10
Napoleon III21 decades - 11
Pope Leo XIII15 decades - 12
Søren Kierkegaard3 decades - 13
Emily Brontë14 decades - 14
Giuseppe Garibaldi11 decades - 15
Joseph Smith22 decades - 16
Mikhail Lermontov15 decades - 17
Robert E. Lee16 decades - 18
Giuseppe Verdi18 decades - 19
Franz Liszt19 decades - 20
John Stuart Mill18 decades - 21
Felix Mendelssohn18 decades - 22
P. T. Barnum17 decades - 23
Robert Schumann19 decades - 24
Jefferson Davis20 decades - 25
Taras Shevchenko13 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.