← 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 - 26
John Maynard Keynes10 decades - 27
Gavrilo Princip3 decades - 28
Jack London12 decades - 29
Rainer Maria Rilke12 decades - 30
Jeanne Calment3 decades - 31
Ibn Saud10 decades - 32
Stefan Zweig12 decades - 33
Pancho Villa12 decades - 34
Clement Attlee8 decades - 35
Emiliano Zapata12 decades - 36
Maurice Ravel12 decades - 37
Hideki Tojo7 decades - 38
Vallabhbhai Patel9 decades - 39
Felix Dzerzhinsky10 decades - 40
Alexander Fleming8 decades - 41
Wilhelm Keitel8 decades - 42
Franz von Papen9 decades - 43
Igor Stravinsky11 decades - 44
Alexander Kerensky9 decades - 45
Mohammad Mosaddegh0 decades - 46
Isoroku Yamamoto3 decades - 47
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia11 decades - 48
Alexander Blok13 decades - 49
Isadora Duncannot measured- - 50
Manfred von Richthofen7 decades - 51
Max Born9 decades - 52
Lu Xun13 decades - 53
Emperor Taishō0 decades - 54
Muhammad Iqbal4 decades - 55
Éamon de Valera1 decades - 56
Amedeo Modigliani10 decades - 57
Albert Schweitzer12 decades - 58
Aleksey Tolstoy13 decades - 59
Mikhail Kalinin10 decades - 60
Syngman Rhee8 decades - 61
Bela Lugosi6 decades - 62
Lise Meitner12 decades - 63
Wilhelmina of the Netherlandsnot measured- - 64
Mileva Marić0 decades - 65
E. M. Forster10 decades - 66
Emmy Noether7 decades - 67
A. A. Milne10 decades - 68
Paul Klee11 decades - 69
Anna Pavlova12 decades - 70
Guillaume Apollinaire12 decades - 71
Egon Schiele10 decades - 72
Kazimir Malevich4 decades - 73
Oswald Spengler11 decades - 74
Albert I of Belgium0 decades - 75
Rajendra Prasad9 decades - 76
Edgar Rice Burroughs11 decades - 77
Gerd von Rundstedt6 decades - 78
Cecil B. DeMille10 decades - 79
Margaret Sanger11 decades - 80
Ferdinand Porsche9 decades - 81
Upton Sinclair12 decades - 82
Pierre Laval11 decades - 83
Sarojini Naidu11 decades - 84
Béla Bartók4 decades - 85
Semyon Budyonny9 decades - 86
Alcide De Gasperi8 decades - 87
Symon Petliura7 decades - 88
Grigory Zinoviev3 decades - 89
Kurt von Schleicher8 decades - 90
Napoleon Hill3 decades - 91
Gustav Stresemann11 decades - 92
Walter Gropius11 decades - 93
Ramana Maharshi6 decades - 94
Otto Hahn14 decades - 95
D. W. Griffith11 decades - 96
P. G. Wodehouse11 decades - 97
Lev Kamenev4 decades - 98
G.H. Hardy0 decades - 99
Antonio Machado15 decades - 100
Enver Pasha11 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.