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1857
Whose working lives fell in 1857. 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 1857, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ulysses S. Grant16 decades - 2
Louis Pasteur14 decades - 3
Rutherford B. Hayes16 decades - 4
Gregor Mendel12 decades - 5
Heinrich Schliemann15 decades - 6
Francis Galton17 decades - 7
Rosa Bonheur18 decades - 8
César Franck15 decades - 9
Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz5 decades - 10
Frederick Law Olmsted16 decades - 11
Mangal Pandey0 decades - 12
Rudolf Clausius8 decades - 13
Dominic Savio11 decades - 14
Red Cloud16 decades - 15
Mathew Benjamin Bradynot measured- - 16
Prince Napoléon-Jérôme, Prince Napoléon0 decades - 17
Charles Hermite7 decades - 18
Teresa Cristina of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 19
Edmond de Goncourt15 decades - 20
Frédéric Passy17 decades - 21
Sa'id of Egypt0 decades - 22
Archduchess Sophie of Austria0 decades - 23
Étienne Lenoir0 decades - 24
Nikolay Danilevsky4 decades - 25
Midhat Pasha15 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.