← 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 Hebrew books during the 1900s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rav Ashi44 - 2
Haggai14 - 3
Ahad Ha'am13 - 4
Sabbatai Zevi11 - 5
Johanan ben Zakai8.5 - 6
Habakkuk8.0 - 7Simeon ben Gamliel II7.2
- 8Saadia Gaon7.2
- 9
Hai Gaon6.6 - 10Nathan the Babylonian5.1
- 11
Hillel the Elder4.5 - 12
Menasseh Ben Israel3.8 - 13Simeon ben Zoma3.5
- 14Samuel ibn Naghrillah3.4
- 15
Isaac Abrabanel3.3 - 16
Judas Maccabeus2.9 - 17
Solomon Molcho2.2 - 18
Amram Gaon2.2 - 19
Baal Shem Tov2.0 - 20Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg2.0
- 21
Josephus1.9 - 22
Rabbeinu Tam1.7 - 23Hasdai Crescas1.5
- 24Joseph Albo1.4
- 25
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital1.3
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1900s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
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.