← 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
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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
Jane Austen19 decades - 2
Charles Dickens20 decades - 3
Lord Byron22 decades - 4
Arthur Conan Doyle12 decades - 5
Mary Shelley16 decades - 6
Lewis Carroll16 decades - 7
George Bernard Shaw13 decades - 8
Emily Brontë14 decades - 9
Charlotte Brontë17 decades - 10
Robert Louis Stevenson15 decades - 11
George Eliot19 decades - 12
John Keats21 decades - 13
William Wordsworth22 decades - 14
Joseph Conrad14 decades - 15
Walter Scott22 decades - 16
Thomas Hardy18 decades - 17
Anne Brontë1 decades - 18
John Ruskin18 decades - 19
Alfred Tennyson19 decades - 20
Samuel Taylor Coleridge19 decades - 21
Thomas Carlyle20 decades - 22
J. M. Barrie13 decades - 23
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powellnot measured- - 24
Elizabeth Barrett Browning17 decades - 25
Robert Browning19 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.