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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 Russian books during the 1840s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures6.8
  2. 2Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers3.0
  3. 3Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians1.6
  4. 4Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century1.0
  5. 5Pyotr Panin1721-1789 · 18th century · Russia0.98
  6. 6Vissarion Belinsky1811-1848 · 19th century · Russia · Academics0.92
  7. 7Stefan Yavorsky1658-1722 · 17th century · Russia · Academics0.71
  8. 8Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.67
  9. 9Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.65
  10. 10Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.60
  11. 11Avraamy Palitsyn1550-1626 · 16th century · Writers0.54
  12. 12Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.51
  13. 13Konstantin Aksakov1817-1860 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.48
  14. 14Dimitry of Rostov1651-1709 · 17th century · Writers0.46
  15. 15Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.45
  16. 16Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.43
  17. 17Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn1643-1714 · 17th century · Politicians0.40
  18. 18Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.38
  19. 19Symeon of Polotsk1629-1680 · 17th century · Writers0.37
  20. 20Grigory Orlov1734-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.35
  21. 21Paul I of Russia1754-1801 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.35
  22. 22Nikita Panin1718-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.35
  23. 23Ivan Mazepa1639-1709 · 17th century · Politicians0.35
  24. 24Boris of Tver1400-1461 · 15th century0.33
  25. 25Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov1733-1811 · 18th century · Russia · Writers0.33
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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.