← Fame through time1850-1859
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 Hebrew books during the 1850s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rav Ashi28 - 2
Habakkuk15 - 3
Haggai15 - 4Simeon ben Gamliel II13
- 5Nathan the Babylonian11
- 6
Johanan ben Zakai6.3 - 7Simeon ben Zoma6.2
- 8Saadia Gaon4.5
- 9
Hillel the Elder4.1 - 10Samuel ibn Naghrillah3.1
- 11
Hai Gaon2.7 - 12
Isaac Abrabanel1.5 - 13Hanina ben Dosa1.5
- 14Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg1.3
- 15
Dunash ben Labrat1.1 - 16
Ahad Ha'am1.0 - 17
Eleazar ben Killir0.99 - 18
Azariah dei Rossi0.96 - 19Zerachiah haLevi of Girona0.95
- 20
Abraham bar Hiyya0.93 - 21Eliezer ben Hurcanus0.82
- 22
Yehuda Alharizi0.82 - 23
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital0.81 - 24Yanai0.78
- 25Joseph Kimhi0.74
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1850s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Karl Marx17 decades - 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky17 decades - 3
Queen Victorianot measured- - 4
Otto von Bismarck16 decades - 5
Ulysses S. Grant16 decades - 6
Florence Nightingale17 decades - 7
Louis Pasteur14 decades - 8
Ada Lovelace3 decades - 9
Rutherford B. Hayes16 decades - 10
Charlotte Brontë17 decades - 11
Friedrich Engels17 decades - 12
Henry David Thoreau13 decades - 13
Walt Whitman17 decades - 14
Alexander II of Russia17 decades - 15
Harriet Tubman9 decades - 16
Charles Baudelaire17 decades - 17
George Eliot19 decades - 18
Herman Melville18 decades - 19
Frederick Douglass18 decades - 20
Gregor Mendel12 decades - 21
Gustave Flaubert17 decades - 22
John Ruskin18 decades - 23
Susan B. Anthony16 decades - 24
Rani of Jhansi8 decades - 25
William Tecumseh Sherman14 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.