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1849
Whose working lives fell in 1849. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1849, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Taras Shevchenko13 decades - 2
Anne Brontë1 decades - 3
Mikhail Bakunin16 decades - 4
Samuel Colt18 decades - 5
Adolphe Sax13 decades - 6
Eugène Viollet-le-Ducnot measured- - 7
Jean-François Millet13 decades - 8
Hong Xiuquan10 decades - 9
Sándor Petőfi0 decades - 10
Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos18 decades - 11
Sheridan Le Fanu8 decades - 12
Jenny von Westphalen9 decades - 13
Henri Nestlé0 decades - 14
Edwin Stanton16 decades - 15
Kamehameha III18 decades - 16
Alexander Cunninghamnot measured- - 17
Joseph Hooker18 decades - 18
Anita Garibaldi15 decades - 19
Samuel J. Tilden16 decades - 20
Heonjong of Joseonnot measured- - 21
Tatya Tope1 decades - 22
Anders Jonas Ångström0 decades - 23
James Joseph Sylvester0 decades - 24
Julius von Mayer15 decades - 25
Goffredo Mameli18 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.