← 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 - 26
Rembrandt1.2 - 27
Cleopatra1.2 - 28
Benjamin Franklin1.1 - 29
Solon1.1 - 30
Osceola1.1 - 31
John the Baptist1.1 - 32
Thomas Jefferson1.0 - 33
Pericles1.0 - 34
J. P. Morgan1.0 - 35
Livy1.0 - 36
John Henry1.0 - 37
Bede0.99 - 38
John Adams0.99 - 39
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor0.95 - 40
Julius Caesar0.95 - 41
Sophocles0.94 - 42
Demosthenes0.92 - 43
Leland Stanford0.91 - 44
Bonar Law0.91 - 45
Hadrian0.88 - 46
George Eliot0.88 - 47
Xenophon0.86 - 48
Galen0.84 - 49
Aristophanes0.84 - 50
Adam Smith0.82 - 51
Herbert Spencer0.82 - 52
Origen0.81 - 53
William Penn0.81 - 54
Henry Clay0.81 - 55
James II, Count of Urgell0.81 - 56
Richard II0.81 - 57
Matthew Arnold0.80 - 58
Black Hawk0.80 - 59
Alexander Hamilton0.80 - 60
Andrew Carnegie0.76 - 61
Thucydides0.75 - 62
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland0.74 - 63
Trajan0.74 - 64
Charles Dickens0.72 - 65
Henry James0.71 - 66
Hosea0.71 - 67
Henry George0.68 - 68
Andrew Jackson0.68 - 69
Tertullian0.67 - 70
Ben Jonson0.67 - 71
Lucretius0.66 - 72
Strabo0.66 - 73
John Marshall0.65 - 74
Pindar0.65 - 75
Joseph Smith0.65 - 76
Plautus0.63 - 77
Alexander the Great0.62 - 78
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford0.62 - 79
John Wesley0.60 - 80
Jefferson Davis0.60 - 81
James I, Count of Urgell0.59 - 82
William Morris0.59 - 83
Hippocrates0.58 - 84
Otho0.58 - 85
Sulla0.56 - 86
Diocletian0.55 - 87
John Quincy Adams0.55 - 88
John Bull0.55 - 89
Washington Irving0.54 - 90
Columba0.54 - 91
Marcus Aurelius0.53 - 92
Patrick Henry0.52 - 93
Pythagoras0.52 - 94
Elihu Root0.52 - 95
John Hancock0.52 - 96
John Jones0.51 - 97
Walt Whitman0.50 - 98
Horace Mann0.50 - 99
John D. Rockefeller0.50 - 100
Robert Louis Stevenson0.50
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.