← 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 Chinese books during the 1890s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Zhang Zhidong86 - 2
Zuo Zongtang43 - 3
Mao Zedong12
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 - 26
David Lloyd George11 decades - 27
Pierre Curie13 decades - 28
José Rizal13 decades - 29
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec10 decades - 30
Thérèse of Lisieux10 decades - 31
Émile Durkheim11 decades - 32
Rudolf Steiner14 decades - 33
David Hilbert14 decades - 34
John Dewey14 decades
- 35
Richard Strauss13 decades - 36
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky5 decades - 37
Miguel de Unamuno14 decades - 38
J. M. Barrie13 decades - 39
Henri Bergson12 decades - 40
Mehmed VI0 decades - 41
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powellnot measured- - 42
Edith Wharton13 decades - 43
L. Frank Baum8 decades - 44
Konstantin Stanislavski9 decades - 45
Knut Hamsun10 decades - 46
Alfred Dreyfus13 decades - 47
George Washington Carver9 decades - 48
O. Henry14 decades - 49
J. J. Thomson0 decades - 50
Emmeline Pankhurst7 decades - 51
Rudolf Diesel10 decades - 52
Clara Zetkin11 decades - 53
Jean Jaurès13 decades - 54
Georges Méliès9 decades - 55
Edward Elgar13 decades - 56
Pyotr Stolypin6 decades - 57
Nellie Bly13 decades - 58
Booker T. Washington13 decades - 59
Yuan Shikai11 decades - 60
Edmund Husserl12 decades - 61
Pierre de Coubertin14 decades - 62
Georges Seurat11 decades - 63
William Randolph Hearst12 decades - 64
Alphonse Mucha1 decades - 65
John Singer Sargent11 decades - 66
Fridtjof Nansen13 decades - 67
John J. Pershing12 decades - 68
Ferdinand de Saussure12 decades - 69
Gerhart Hauptmann13 decades - 70
Raymond Poincaré13 decades - 71
Selma Lagerlöf7 decades - 72
Jane Addams14 decades - 73
James Naismith3 decades - 74
Bal Gangadhar Tilak9 decades - 75
Arthur Schnitzler14 decades - 76
Heinrich Hertz13 decades - 77
Alfred North Whitehead10 decades - 78
George Santayana9 decades - 79
Vladimir Vernadsky8 decades - 80
L. L. Zamenhofnot measured- - 81
Joseph Merrick0 decades - 82
Klara Hitler1 decades - 83
Georgi Plekhanov11 decades - 84
Camille Claudel11 decades - 85
Jagadish Chandra Bose0 decades - 86
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria0 decades - 87
William Jennings Bryan13 decades - 88
Lou Andreas-Salomé1 decades - 89
Bonar Law12 decades - 90
Venustiano Carranza12 decades - 91
Aristide Briand12 decades - 92
Charles Curtis16 decades - 93
Eugene V. Debs13 decades - 94
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedlestonnot measured- - 95
Ida B. Wells6 decades - 96
Emilio Salgari13 decades - 97
Sholem Aleichem10 decades - 98
Paul Doumer13 decades - 99
Eleonora Duse14 decades - 100
Italo Svevo10 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.