← Fame through time1910-1919
The 1910s
Whose names filled the books of the 1910s - 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 English books during the 1910s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Jesus32 - 2
Homer7.5 - 3
Augustus6.4 - 4
Plato5.2 - 5
Aristotle4.7 - 6
Cicero4.5 - 7
Johns Hopkins4.4 - 8
Virgil3.0 - 9
George Washington2.6 - 10
Socrates2.6 - 11
Abraham Lincoln2.3 - 12
Euclid2.1 - 13
Pocahontas2.0
- 14
William Henry1.9 - 15
Charlemagne1.7 - 16
Plutarch1.5 - 17
Woodrow Wilson1.4 - 18
John Smith1.4 - 19
Theodore Roosevelt1.4 - 20
Mark Twain1.4 - 21
Ovid1.4 - 22
Herodotus1.3 - 23
Edward VII1.3 - 24
Walter Scott1.3 - 25
Euripides1.2
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1910s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Albert Einstein11 decades - 2
Joseph Stalin9 decades - 3
Franklin D. Roosevelt10 decades - 4
Benito Mussolini11 decades - 5
Harry S. Truman9 decades - 6
Pablo Picasso10 decades - 7
Franz Kafka11 decades - 8
Helen Keller14 decades - 9
Leon Trotsky10 decades - 10
Carl Jung8 decades
- 11
Virginia Woolf10 decades - 12
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2 decades - 13
Eleanor Roosevelt9 decades - 14
Thomas Mann12 decades - 15
Douglas MacArthur10 decades - 16
Pope John XXIII14 decades - 17
Pope Pius XII8 decades - 18
Coco Chanel6 decades - 19
Konrad Adenauer8 decades - 20
James Joyce12 decades - 21
Muhammad Ali Jinnah8 decades - 22
Mata Hari10 decades - 23
Aleister Crowley7 decades - 24
Hermann Hesse12 decades - 25
Reza Shah10 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.