← 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 Chinese books during the 1870s, whenever they lived.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1870s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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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 - 26
William Jamesnot measured- - 27
Georges Clemenceau13 decades - 28
Paul Verlaine14 decades - 29
Robert Koch14 decades - 30
Bertha von Suttner13 decades - 31
Ilya Repin10 decades - 32
Edvard Grieg12 decades - 33
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov9 decades - 34
Umberto I of Italy14 decades - 35
Alexandra of Denmark2 decades - 36
Modest Mussorgsky11 decades - 37
Ambrose Bierce13 decades - 38
Bernadette Soubirous15 decades - 39
Camille Saint-Saëns15 decades - 40
Georges Bizet15 decades - 41
George Armstrong Custer7 decades - 42
Liliʻuokalaninot measured- - 43
Anatole France15 decades - 44
Giosuè Carducci17 decades - 45
Crazy Horse15 decades - 46
Ludwig Boltzmann15 decades - 47
Alois Hitler8 decades - 48
Henry Morton Stanley7 decades - 49
Mehmed V0 decades - 50
Karl May14 decades - 51
John Muir19 decades - 52
Mary Cassatt12 decades - 53
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer13 decades - 54
Berthe Morisot13 decades - 55
Henri Rousseau12 decades - 56
Victoria, Princess Royalnot measured- - 57
Alphonse Daudet16 decades - 58
Jamsetji Tata0 decades - 59
Benito Pérez Galdós14 decades - 60
Karl Benz11 decades - 61
Itō Hirobumi0 decades - 62
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad4 decades - 63
Félix Faure18 decades - 64
Frederick VIII of Denmark0 decades - 65
Princess Alice of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 66
Sadi Carnotnot measured- - 67
Charles Sanders Peirce9 decades - 68
Henry George19 decades - 69
Stéphane Mallarmé14 decades - 70
Menelik II14 decades - 71
Murad V0 decades - 72
Cesare Lombroso16 decades - 73
Ernst Mach16 decades - 74
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch5 decades - 75
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee4 decades - 76
Giovanni Giolitti14 decades - 77
Arkhip Kuindzhi2 decades - 78
Paul Morphy7 decades - 79
Carol I of Romanianot measured- - 80
August Bebel14 decades - 81
Vasily Vereshchagin8 decades - 82
Louis Riel15 decades - 83
Tongzhi Emperornot measured- - 84
Giovanni Verga15 decades - 85
Gustave Le Bon15 decades - 86
Léon Gambetta15 decades - 87
Rosalía de Castro13 decades - 88
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothanot measured- - 89
Wilhelm Steinitz0 decades - 90
Odilon Redon14 decades - 91
Peter I of Serbia0 decades - 92
Nikolay Przhevalsky9 decades - 93
Alfred Sisley9 decades - 94
Tokugawa Yoshinobu0 decades - 95
Victoria Woodhull10 decades - 96
Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallahnot measured- - 97
Adlai Stevenson I0 decades - 98
Ferdinand von Zeppelin5 decades - 99
Father Damien12 decades - 100
Wilfrid Laurier13 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.