← 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 - 26
Origen1.8 - 27
Bede1.7 - 28
George Eliot1.7 - 29
John the Baptist1.6 - 30
Hadrian1.6 - 31
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor1.6 - 32
James II, Count of Urgell1.6 - 33
Sophocles1.6 - 34
Solon1.6 - 35
Herbert Spencer1.6 - 36
Strabo1.5 - 37
Matthew Arnold1.5 - 38
Thucydides1.5 - 39
Adam Smith1.5 - 40
John Adams1.4 - 41
Rembrandt1.4 - 42
Trajan1.4 - 43
Tertullian1.3 - 44
Aristophanes1.3 - 45
Richard II1.3 - 46
Hosea1.3 - 47
Pindar1.2 - 48
Ben Jonson1.2 - 49
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford1.2 - 50
Julius Caesar1.2 - 51
John Henry1.2 - 52
Benjamin Franklin1.2 - 53
Robert Peel1.1 - 54
Otho1.1 - 55
Sulla1.1 - 56
Alexander the Great1.0 - 57
William Penn1.0 - 58
Henry Clay1.0 - 59
Pocahontas1.0
- 60
Lord Byron1.0 - 61
Thomas Jefferson1.00 - 62
Lucretius0.99 - 63
Plautus0.99 - 64
Columba0.99 - 65
Charles Dickens0.95 - 66
Pythagoras0.94 - 67
Galen0.92 - 68
Vespasian0.92 - 69
Oliver Cromwell0.91 - 70
Osceola0.89 - 71
John Bull0.88 - 72
Diocletian0.88 - 73
Hippocrates0.88 - 74
Charles Lamb0.87 - 75
John Wesley0.86 - 76
Henry James0.84 - 77
Andrew Lang0.84 - 78
Richard III0.84 - 79
Jefferson Davis0.83 - 80
Sappho0.82 - 81
Robert Browning0.82 - 82
Saladin0.80 - 83
Alcibiades0.80 - 84
Mark Twain0.80 - 85
William Morris0.79 - 86
Domitian0.79 - 87
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland0.79 - 88
Hesiod0.78 - 89
Roger Williams0.77 - 90
Edward Everett0.77 - 91
William the Conqueror0.76 - 92
Patrick Henry0.76 - 93
Andrew Jackson0.76 - 94
Horace Walpole0.76 - 95
Marcus Aurelius0.76 - 96
Ahab0.76 - 97
Irenaeus0.75 - 98
Catullus0.75 - 99
Leigh Hunt0.75 - 100
John Quincy Adams0.72
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.