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1862
Whose working lives fell in 1862. 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 1862, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Joseph Lister18 decades - 2
Ellen G. White6 decades - 3
Johanna Spyri11 decades
- 4
Arnold Böcklin14 decades - 5
Lew Wallace16 decades - 6
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia20 decades - 7
William Holman Hunt5 decades - 8
Konstantin Pobedonostsev9 decades - 9
Marcellin Berthelot15 decades - 10
John Hanning Speke1 decades - 11
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shanskynot measured- - 12
Jyotirao Phule0 decades - 13
Sandford Fleming15 decades - 14
Elizabeth Siddal2 decades - 15
Josef Strauss0 decades - 16
Ignacio Zaragoza16 decades - 17
Jules Breton16 decades - 18
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux5 decades - 19
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff6 decades - 20
Deodoro da Fonseca1 decades - 21
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows13 decades - 22
Charles De Coster13 decades - 23
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Riponnot measured- - 24
Hiram Rhodes Revelsnot measured- - 25
Kusumoto Inenot measured-
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.