← 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 Italian books during the 1900s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Dante Alighieri8.5 - 2
Giotto5.8 - 3
Antonio da Correggio4.7 - 4
Leonardo da Vinci4.1 - 5
Giuseppe Mazzini3.3 - 6
Donatello3.0 - 7
Galileo Galilei2.7 - 8
Giosuè Carducci2.4 - 9
Giuseppe Verdi2.3 - 10
Pietro Perugino2.2 - 11
Vittorio Alfieri2.2 - 12
Ugo Foscolo2.2 - 13
Silvio Pellico2.2 - 14
Petrarch2.2 - 15
Alessandro Manzoni2.1 - 16
Giacomo Leopardi2.0 - 17
Donato Bramante2.0 - 18
Francis of Assisi1.7 - 19
Carlo Goldoni1.6 - 20
Francesco Crispi1.5 - 21
Torquato Tasso1.5 - 22
Lorenzo de' Medici1.5 - 23
Paul the Deacon1.5 - 24
Cimabue1.4 - 25
Giordano Bruno1.4
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.