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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 Russian books during the 1870s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures8.5
  2. 2Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers4.0
  3. 3Elizabeth of Russia1709-1761 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.7
  4. 4Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia1850-1908 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.3
  5. 5Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians1.1
  6. 6Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century0.98
  7. 7Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.93
  8. 8Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.84
  9. 9Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.77
  10. 10Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.76
  11. 11Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia1832-1909 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.68
  12. 12Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians0.56
  13. 13Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.55
  14. 14Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · 16th century · Writers0.47
  15. 15Ivan the Terrible1530-1584 · 16th century · Politicians0.43
  16. 16Avraamy Palitsyn1550-1626 · 16th century · Writers0.42
  17. 17Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia1827-1892 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.42
  18. 18Paul I of Russia1754-1801 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.41
  19. 19Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.40
  20. 20Grigory Orlov1734-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.33
  21. 21Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov1727-1797 · 18th century · Russia · Writers0.29
  22. 22Nicholas I of Russia1796-1855 · 19th century · Russia · Models0.26
  23. 23Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.25
  24. 24Stefan Yavorsky1658-1722 · 17th century · Russia · Academics0.24
  25. 25Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia1860-1919 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.24
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1870s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  2. 2Mark Twain1835-1910 · United States · Writers16 decades
  3. 3Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893 · Russia · Musicians10 decades
  4. 4William McKinley1843-1901 · United States · Politicians16 decades
  5. 5Grover Cleveland1837-1908 · United States · Politicians14 decades
  6. 6Claude Monet1840-1926 · France · Artists14 decades
  7. 7Émile Zola1840-1902 · France · Writers16 decades
  8. 8Edward VII1841-1910 · United Kingdom · Historical Figures13 decades
  9. 9Sarah Bernhardt1844-1923 · France · Actors15 decades
  10. 10John D. Rockefeller1839-1937 · United States · Founders14 decades
  11. 11Andrew Carnegie1835-1919 · United States · Founders14 decades
  12. 12Leopold II of Belgium1835-1909 · Belgium · Historical Figures9 decades
  13. 13Paul Cézanne1839-1906 · France · Artists12 decades
  14. 14Pope Pius X1835-1914 · Italy · Religious Figures12 decades
  15. 15Antonín Dvořák1841-1904 · Musicians0 decades
  16. 16Empress Elisabeth of Austria1837-1898 · Germany · Historical Figures0 decades
  17. 17Empress Dowager Cixi1835-1908 · China · Historical Figures5 decades
  18. 18Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841-1919 · France · Artists12 decades
  19. 19Thomas Hardy1840-1928 · United Kingdom · Writers18 decades
  20. 20Abdul Hamid II1842-1918 · Turkey · Historical Figures13 decades
  21. 21J. P. Morgan1837-1913 · United States · Founders16 decades
  22. 22Auguste Rodin1840-1917 · France · Artists14 decades
  23. 23Henry James1843-1916 · United States · Writers18 decades
  24. 24Ramakrishna1836-1886 · India · Academics14 decades
  25. 25Peter Kropotkin1842-1921 · Russia · Activists11 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.