← Fame through time1800-1899
The 19th century
Whose names filled the books of the 19th century - 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 German books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
- 1
Maria Theresa3.8 - 2
Jean Paul1.8 - 3
Paracelsus1.4 - 4
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor1.3 - 5
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor1.3 - 6
Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow1.2 - 7
Hans Sachs0.99 - 8
William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel0.85 - 9
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor0.85 - 10
Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach0.84 - 11
George Frederick of Waldeck-Eisenberg0.84 - 12Władysław of Głogów0.78
- 13
Martin Luther0.78 - 14
Novalis0.77 - 15
Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern0.75 - 16
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor0.72 - 17
Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental0.71 - 18
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor0.65 - 19
Albrecht Dürer0.64 - 20
Frederick William IV of Prussia0.59 - 21
Conradin0.58 - 22
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg0.55 - 23
Catherine the Great0.55 - 24
Richard Wagner0.55 - 25
Francis Anthony, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch0.53
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Leo XIII15 decades - 2
Giuseppe Verdi18 decades - 3
Gabriele D'Annunzio14 decades - 4
Pope Pius IX18 decades - 5
Giacomo Leopardi22 decades - 6
Pope Pius X12 decades - 7
Giacomo Puccini15 decades - 8
Pope Benedict XV11 decades - 9
Niccolò Paganini18 decades - 10
Gioachino Rossini20 decades - 11
Giuseppe Mazzini20 decades - 12
Umberto I of Italy14 decades - 13
Alessandro Manzoni22 decades - 14
John Bosco16 decades - 15
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy12 decades - 16
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour10 decades - 17
Pope Gregory XVI19 decades - 18
Giosuè Carducci17 decades - 19
Carlo Collodi8 decades - 20
Amadeo I of Spainnot measured- - 21
Vincenzo Bellini22 decades - 22
Gaetano Donizetti19 decades - 23
Emilio Salgari13 decades - 24
Cesare Lombroso16 decades - 25
Amedeo Avogadro19 decades - 26
Eleonora Duse14 decades - 27
Giovanni Giolitti14 decades - 28
Italo Svevo10 decades - 29
Giovanni Pascoli14 decades - 30
Giovanni Verga15 decades - 31
John William Waterhouse0 decades - 32
Pietro Mascagni13 decades - 33
Maria Christina of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 34
Margaret of Savoy17 decades - 35
Luigi Cadorna11 decades - 36
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando13 decades - 37
Francesco Crispi18 decades - 38
Francis II of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 39
Andreas Hofer22 decades - 40
Armando Diaz11 decades - 41
Luigi Facta12 decades - 42
Francesco Hayez20 decades - 43
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Actonnot measured- - 44
Camillo Golgi15 decades - 45
Ruggero Leoncavallo13 decades
- 46
Errico Malatesta11 decades - 47
Dominic Savio11 decades - 48
Cosima Wagner13 decades - 49
Edmondo De Amicis16 decades - 50
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicilynot measured- - 51
Giuseppe Peano14 decades - 52
Francis I of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 53
Alexander of Battenbergnot measured- - 54
Sidney Sonnino15 decades - 55
Giovanni Schiaparelli15 decades - 56
Massimo d'Azeglio19 decades - 57
Alfonso La Marmora18 decades - 58
Agostino Depretis16 decades - 59
Antonio Salandra15 decades - 60
Giovanni Segantini13 decades - 61
Charles Felix of Savoy0 decades - 62
Carmine Crocco8 decades - 63
Arrigo Boito16 decades - 64
Giovanni Boldini11 decades - 65
Bettino Ricasoli22 decades - 66
Teresa Cristina of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 67
Amilcare Ponchielli15 decades - 68
Felice Beato2 decades - 69
Robert I, Duke of Parma0 decades - 70
Maria Anna of Savoy0 decades - 71
Marie Taglioni16 decades - 72
Giovanni Battista Belzoni4 decades - 73
Pietro Gasparri12 decades - 74
Urbano Rattazzi18 decades - 75
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta11 decades - 76
Giuseppe Zanardelli16 decades - 77
Niccolò Tommaseo20 decades - 78
Prince Henry of Battenbergnot measured- - 79
Vito Volterra14 decades - 80
Karl Mozart0 decades - 81
Filippo Turati14 decades - 82
Antonio Fogazzaro14 decades - 83
Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscanynot measured- - 84
Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry0 decades - 85
Goffredo Mameli18 decades - 86
Marco Minghetti18 decades - 87
Stanislao Cannizzaro16 decades - 88
Francis V, Duke of Modena0 decades - 89
Gaetano Mosca14 decades - 90
Paolo Boselli16 decades - 91
Antonio Labriola15 decades - 92
Alessandro Moreschinot measured- - 93
Louis of Parma, king of Etruria0 decades - 94
Bartolo Longo14 decades - 95
Luigi Luzzatti16 decades - 96
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì1 decades - 97
Ascanio Sobrero17 decades - 98
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoynot measured- - 99
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows13 decades - 100
Giovanni Fattori14 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.