← Fame through time1890-1899
The 1890s
Whose names filled the books of the 1890s - 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 English books during the 1890s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Jesus48 - 2
Homer9.8 - 3
Augustus9.7 - 4
Plato9.0 - 5
Aristotle7.5 - 6
Cicero7.4 - 7
Socrates5.2 - 8
Virgil4.9 - 9
Johns Hopkins3.5 - 10
Herodotus3.0 - 11
Walter Scott2.7 - 12
Plutarch2.6 - 13
Charlemagne2.6 - 14
Ovid2.3 - 15
William Henry2.2 - 16
Euclid2.2 - 17
Demosthenes2.1 - 18
Cleopatra2.0 - 19
Euripides1.9 - 20
Pericles1.9 - 21
Livy1.9 - 22
Abraham Lincoln1.9 - 23
George Washington1.9 - 24
John Smith1.9 - 25
Xenophon1.9
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1890s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nikola Tesla13 decades - 2
Sigmund Freud12 decades - 3
Theodore Roosevelt16 decades - 4
Woodrow Wilson14 decades - 5
Anton Chekhov15 decades - 6
Henry Ford16 decades - 7
Rabindranath Tagore11 decades - 8
Arthur Conan Doyle12 decades - 9
William Howard Taft12 decades - 10
George Bernard Shaw13 decades - 11
Swami Vivekananda13 decades - 12
Wilhelm II, German Emperornot measured- - 13
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austrianot measured- - 14
Gustav Mahler13 decades - 15
Max Weber15 decades - 16
Max Planck14 decades - 17
Gabriele D'Annunzio14 decades - 18
Gustav Klimt12 decades - 19
Philippe Pétain8 decades - 20
Claude Debussy12 decades - 21
Pope Pius XI10 decades - 22
Joseph Conrad14 decades - 23
Edvard Munch7 decades - 24
Giacomo Puccini15 decades - 25
Theodor Herzl13 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.