← 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 Chinese books during the 1910s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Mao Zedong70 - 2
Lu Xun33 - 3
Sun Yat-sen19 - 4
Deng Xiaoping14 - 5
Li Bai14 - 6Wang Chong5.5
- 7
Confucius5.5 - 8
He Zhizhang0.84 - 9
Laozi0.84 - 10
Du Fu0.84 - 11
Qu Yuan0.84 - 12
Wang Anshi0.84
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.