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The 1850s

Whose names filled the books of the 1850s - 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 1850s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1John of Austria1547-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians9.6
  2. 2Francis Xavier1506-1552 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures6.2
  3. 3Lope de Vega1562-1635 · 16th century · Spain · Writers6.0
  4. 4John of God1495-1550 · 16th century · Portugal5.0
  5. 5Nicolás Antonio1617-1684 · 17th century · Spain · Politicians4.5
  6. 6Gonzalo Pizarro1502-1548 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures3.8
  7. 7John I of France1316-1316 · 14th century · France · Historical Figures3.2
  8. 8Francisco Quevedo1584-1645 · 17th century · Spain · Writers3.0
  9. 9Diego de Almagro1475-1538 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures2.3
  10. 10Francisco Pizarro1478-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures2.3
  11. 11Vincent Ferrer1350-1419 · 14th century · Spain · Religious Figures2.0
  12. 12Pope Alexander VI1431-1503 · 15th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.9
  13. 13Garcilaso de la Vega1503-1536 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.8
  14. 14Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain1549-1580 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians1.8
  15. 15Ignatius of Loyola1491-1556 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.7
  16. 16Wittiza686-710 · 8th century · Historical Figures1.7
  17. 17Gonzalo de Sandoval1497-1528 · 16th century · Historical Figures1.6
  18. 18Juan Bravo1483-1521 · 16th century · Politicians1.5
  19. 19Ambrosio de Morales1513-1591 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.5
  20. 20Juan López de Padilla1490-1521 · 16th century · Activists1.4
  21. 21Hernando Pizarro1502-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.3
  22. 22Pedro de Alvarado1486-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.1
  23. 23Hugo of Moncada1466-1528 · 16th century · Politicians0.97
  24. 24Hernán Cortés1485-1547 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures0.90
  25. 25Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.89
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1850s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Karl Marx1818-1883 · Germany · Academics17 decades
  2. 2Fyodor Dostoevsky1821-1881 · Russia · Writers17 decades
  3. 3Queen Victoria1819-1901 · United Kingdom · Historical Figuresnot measured-
  4. 4Otto von Bismarck1815-1898 · Germany · Politicians16 decades
  5. 5Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885 · United States · Politicians16 decades
  6. 6Florence Nightingale1820-1910 · Writers17 decades
  7. 7Louis Pasteur1822-1895 · France · Scientists14 decades
  8. 8Ada Lovelace1815-1852 · Academics3 decades
  9. 9Rutherford B. Hayes1822-1893 · United States · Politicians16 decades
  10. 10Charlotte Brontë1816-1855 · United Kingdom · Writers17 decades
  11. 11Friedrich Engels1820-1895 · United Kingdom · Academics17 decades
  12. 12Henry David Thoreau1817-1862 · United States · Writers13 decades
  13. 13Walt Whitman1819-1892 · United States · Writers17 decades
  14. 14Alexander II of Russia1818-1881 · Russia · Historical Figures17 decades
  15. 15Harriet Tubman1821-1913 · United States · Writers9 decades
  16. 16Charles Baudelaire1821-1867 · France · Writers17 decades
  17. 17George Eliot1819-1880 · United Kingdom · Writers19 decades
  18. 18Herman Melville1819-1891 · United States · Writers18 decades
  19. 19Frederick Douglass1818-1895 · United States · Writers18 decades
  20. 20Gregor Mendel1822-1884 · Scientists12 decades
  21. 21Gustave Flaubert1821-1880 · France · Writers17 decades
  22. 22John Ruskin1819-1900 · United Kingdom · Writers18 decades
  23. 23Susan B. Anthony1820-1906 · United States · Activists16 decades
  24. 24Rani of Jhansi1828-1858 · India · Activists8 decades
  25. 25William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891 · United States · Writers14 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.