← Fame through time1870-1879
The 1870s
Whose names filled the books of the 1870s - 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 1870s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rav Ashi13 - 2
Haggai13 - 3Nathan the Babylonian8.1
- 4Simeon ben Gamliel II6.6
- 5
Habakkuk5.4 - 6Saadia Gaon5.3
- 7Samuel ibn Naghrillah4.5
- 8
Hai Gaon4.1 - 9Simeon ben Zoma4.0
- 10
Johanan ben Zakai4.0 - 11
Hillel the Elder4.0 - 12
Isaac Abrabanel3.2 - 13Joseph Kimhi2.7
- 14
Sabbatai Zevi2.3 - 15Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg2.1
- 16Moses Kimhi1.5
- 17
Ahad Ha'am1.5 - 18Yanai1.2
- 19Zerachiah haLevi of Girona1.2
- 20
Josephus1.2 - 21
Rabbeinu Tam1.1 - 22
Menasseh Ben Israel1.1 - 23Joseph Albo1.0
- 24
Judas Maccabeus0.96 - 25
Jonathan Eybeschutz0.92
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1870s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Friedrich Nietzsche15 decades - 2
Mark Twain16 decades - 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky10 decades - 4
William McKinley16 decades - 5
Grover Cleveland14 decades - 6
Claude Monet14 decades - 7
Émile Zola16 decades - 8
Edward VII13 decades - 9
Sarah Bernhardt15 decades - 10
John D. Rockefeller14 decades - 11
Andrew Carnegie14 decades - 12
Leopold II of Belgium9 decades - 13
Paul Cézanne12 decades - 14
Pope Pius X12 decades - 15
Antonín Dvořák0 decades - 16
Empress Elisabeth of Austria0 decades - 17
Empress Dowager Cixi5 decades - 18
Pierre-Auguste Renoir12 decades - 19
Thomas Hardy18 decades - 20
Abdul Hamid II13 decades - 21
J. P. Morgan16 decades - 22
Auguste Rodin14 decades - 23
Henry James18 decades - 24
Ramakrishna14 decades - 25
Peter Kropotkin11 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.