← Fame through time1900-1909
The 1900s
Whose names filled the books of the 1900s - 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 Spanish books during the 1900s, whenever they lived.
- 1
John of God11 - 2
Francisco de Villagra6.4 - 3
Lope de Vega5.3 - 4
Porfirio Díaz4.6 - 5
Francis Xavier4.4 - 6
Pedro de Valdivia3.8 - 7Juan Fernández2.9
- 8
Gonzalo Pizarro2.7 - 9
Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa2.2 - 10
Miguel de Cervantes2.1 - 11
Christopher Columbus2.0 - 12
Bartolomé Mitre1.9 - 13
Teresa of Ávila1.9 - 14
Nicolás Antonio1.7 - 15
John of Austria1.7 - 16
Pedro de Villagra1.6 - 17
Hernán Cortés1.5 - 18
Benito Juárez1.5 - 19
Francisco Pizarro1.5 - 20
João Serrão1.4 - 21
Rodrigo de Quiroga1.3 - 22
Cipriano Castro1.3 - 23
Ignatius of Loyola1.3 - 24
Diego de Almagro1.3 - 25
Francisco de Aguirre1.2
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1900s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Winston Churchill13 decades - 2
Vladimir Lenin12 decades - 3
Mahatma Gandhi10 decades - 4
Marie Curie4 decades - 5
George V16 decades - 6
Grigori Rasputin11 decades - 7
Herbert Hoover11 decades - 8
Nicholas II of Russia14 decades - 9
Sun Yat-sen12 decades - 10
Calvin Coolidge11 decades - 11
Warren G. Harding11 decades - 12
Rudyard Kipling13 decades - 13
Frank Lloyd Wright12 decades - 14
Rosa Luxemburg13 decades - 15
Neville Chamberlain16 decades - 16
H. G. Wells16 decades - 17
Bertrand Russell13 decades - 18
Harry Houdini7 decades - 19
Marcel Proust12 decades - 20
Henri Matisse12 decades - 21
Sergei Rachmaninoffnot measured- - 22
Robert Frost13 decades - 23
W. B. Yeats12 decades - 24
G. K. Chesterton12 decades - 25
Beatrix Potter10 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.