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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 Russian books during the 1900s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers4.1
  2. 2Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures3.2
  3. 3Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia1827-1892 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.4
  4. 4Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · 19th century · Russia · Writers1.2
  5. 5Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians1.2
  6. 6Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia1832-1909 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians1.1
  7. 7Ivan the Terrible1530-1584 · 16th century · Politicians1.1
  8. 8Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians1.0
  9. 9Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.95
  10. 10Elizabeth of Russia1709-1761 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.89
  11. 11Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century0.81
  12. 12Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.65
  13. 13Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · 16th century · Writers0.61
  14. 14Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia1858-1915 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.54
  15. 15Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.51
  16. 16Nicholas I of Russia1796-1855 · 19th century · Russia · Models0.47
  17. 17Alexander II of Russia1818-1881 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.46
  18. 18Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.43
  19. 19Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.41
  20. 20Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia1864-1931 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.40
  21. 21Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.36
  22. 22Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.35
  23. 23Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia1860-1919 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.35
  24. 24Maxim Gorky1868-1936 · 20th century · Russia · Writers0.34
  25. 25Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia1783-1801 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.34
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1900s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Winston Churchill1874-1965 · United Kingdom · Politicians13 decades
  2. 2Vladimir Lenin1870-1924 · Russia · Politicians12 decades
  3. 3Mahatma Gandhi1869-1948 · India · Activists10 decades
  4. 4Marie Curie1867-1934 · France · Scientists4 decades
  5. 5George V1865-1936 · United Kingdom · Historical Figures16 decades
  6. 6Grigori Rasputin1869-1916 · Russia · Politicians11 decades
  7. 7Herbert Hoover1874-1964 · United States · Politicians11 decades
  8. 8Nicholas II of Russia1868-1918 · Russia · Historical Figures14 decades
  9. 9Sun Yat-sen1866-1925 · China · Politicians12 decades
  10. 10Calvin Coolidge1872-1933 · United States · Politicians11 decades
  11. 11Warren G. Harding1865-1923 · United States · Politicians11 decades
  12. 12Rudyard Kipling1865-1936 · United Kingdom · Writers13 decades
  13. 13Frank Lloyd Wright1867-1959 · United States · Architects12 decades
  14. 14Rosa Luxemburg1871-1919 · Germany · Activists13 decades
  15. 15Neville Chamberlain1869-1940 · United Kingdom · Politicians16 decades
  16. 16H. G. Wells1866-1946 · United Kingdom · Writers16 decades
  17. 17Bertrand Russell1872-1970 · United Kingdom · Academics13 decades
  18. 18Harry Houdini1874-1926 · United States · Actors7 decades
  19. 19Marcel Proust1871-1922 · France · Writers12 decades
  20. 20Henri Matisse1869-1954 · France · Artists12 decades
  21. 21Sergei Rachmaninoff1873-1943 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  22. 22Robert Frost1874-1963 · United States · Writers13 decades
  23. 23W. B. Yeats1865-1939 · Writers12 decades
  24. 24G. K. Chesterton1874-1936 · United Kingdom · Writers12 decades
  25. 25Beatrix Potter1866-1943 · United Kingdom · Writers10 decades
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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.