← Fame through time1930-1939
The 1930s
Whose names filled the books of the 1930s - 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 1930s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Mao Zedong51 - 2
Lu Xun27 - 3
Lee Teng-hui22 - 4
Jiang Zemin15 - 5
Sun Yat-sen15 - 6
Deng Xiaoping9.3 - 7
Confucius9.1 - 8
Zhou Enlai8.2 - 9
Zhu De7.6 - 10
Lin Biao7.2 - 11
Yuan Shikai5.7 - 12
Laozi5.6 - 13
Mozi4.9 - 14
Zhuge Liang4.1 - 15
Wang Anshi3.6 - 16
Wen Tianxiang3.2 - 17
Liu Shaoqi2.5 - 18Chen Shou2.2
- 19
Li Zicheng2.1 - 20
Shi Kefa1.8 - 21
Li Hongzhang1.7 - 22Deng Xi1.4
- 23
Hong Xiuquan1.3 - 24
Jiang Qing1.3 - 25
Qu Yuan1.3
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1930s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ernest Hemingway10 decades - 2
Alfred Hitchcock9 decades - 3
Walt Disney10 decades - 4
J. Robert Oppenheimer8 decades - 5
Ruhollah Khomeini5 decades - 6
George VI10 decades - 7
Joseph Goebbels9 decades - 8
George Orwell9 decades - 9
Heinrich Himmler9 decades - 10
Hirohito10 decades - 11Deng Xiaoping11 decades
- 12
Amelia Earhart10 decades - 13
Salvador Dalí10 decades - 14
Al Capone9 decades - 15
C. S. Lewis10 decades - 16
Cary Grant9 decades - 17
Marlene Dietrich9 decades - 18
Humphrey Bogart9 decades - 19
Georgy Zhukov6 decades - 20
Louis Armstrong9 decades - 21
Pope Paul VI6 decades - 22
Bing Crosby9 decades - 23
Clark Gable9 decades - 24
Werner Heisenberg10 decades - 25
John Steinbeck9 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.