← 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
Vincent van Gogh12 decades - 2
Claude Monet14 decades - 3
Paul Gauguin13 decades - 4
Gustav Klimt12 decades - 5
Paul Cézanne12 decades - 6
Edvard Munch7 decades - 7
Pierre-Auguste Renoir12 decades - 8
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec10 decades - 9
Auguste Rodin14 decades - 10
Édouard Manet15 decades - 11
J. M. W. Turner22 decades - 12
Edgar Degas11 decades - 13
Eugène Delacroix20 decades - 14
Caspar David Friedrich11 decades - 15
Ilya Repin10 decades - 16
William Morris19 decades - 17
Ivan Aivazovsky2 decades - 18
Gustave Courbet16 decades - 19
Gustave Doré17 decades - 20
Camille Pissarro13 decades - 21
Georges Seurat11 decades - 22
Alphonse Mucha1 decades - 23
John Singer Sargent11 decades - 24
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresnot measured- - 25
Raja Ravi Varma0 decades - 26
Mary Cassatt12 decades - 27
Berthe Morisot13 decades - 28
Henri Rousseau12 decades - 29
Victoria, Princess Royalnot measured- - 30
Viktor Vasnetsov10 decades - 31
Joseph Merrick0 decades - 32
Camille Claudel11 decades - 33
William-Adolphe Bouguereau5 decades - 34
John James Audubon19 decades - 35
John Constable22 decades - 36
Ivan Shishkin9 decades - 37
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi4 decades - 38
Édouard-Henri Avril5 decades - 39
Karl Bryullov11 decades - 40
John Everett Millais13 decades - 41
Théodore Géricault7 decades - 42
Arkhip Kuindzhi2 decades - 43
Wilhelm Busch15 decades - 44
Gustave Caillebotte5 decades - 45
Vasily Vereshchagin8 decades - 46
Isaac Levitan7 decades - 47
Nadarnot measured- - 48
Max Liebermann13 decades - 49
Jean-Léon Gérôme4 decades - 50
Jean-François Millet13 decades - 51
Eadweard Muybridge7 decades - 52
Hiroshigenot measured- - 53
Rosa Bonheur18 decades - 54
Carlos I of Portugal0 decades - 55
John William Waterhouse0 decades - 56
Vasily Surikov8 decades - 57
Mikhail Vrubel9 decades - 58
Odilon Redon14 decades - 59
Hilma af Klint0 decades - 60
Alfred Sisley9 decades - 61
Tokugawa Yoshinobu0 decades - 62
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot7 decades - 63
Arnold Böcklin14 decades - 64
Margaret of Savoy17 decades - 65
Gustave Moreau16 decades - 66
Honoré Daumier13 decades - 67
Ivan Kramskoi11 decades - 68
Joaquín Sorolla13 decades - 69
Alfred Stieglitz13 decades - 70
Aubrey Beardsley13 decades - 71
Edward Lear15 decades - 72
Paul Signac13 decades - 73
Jan Matejko3 decades - 74
Thomas Colenot measured- - 75
Alexandre Cabanel6 decades - 76
Winslow Homer15 decades - 77
Francesco Hayez20 decades - 78
Lawrence Alma-Tadema1 decades - 79
James Tissot14 decades - 80
Anders Zorn4 decades - 81
Anna Pavlovna of Russia0 decades - 82
Vasily Perov8 decades - 83
Lovis Corinth11 decades - 84
Niko Pirosmani6 decades - 85
Luís I of Portugalnot measured- - 86
Frédéric Bazille9 decades - 87
William Holman Hunt5 decades - 88
Eugène Boudin12 decades - 89
James Ensor13 decades - 90
Thomas Eakins12 decades - 91
Carl Spitzweg10 decades - 92
Edward Burne-Jones13 decades - 93
Julia Margaret Cameron5 decades - 94
Grandma Moses8 decades - 95
Albert Bierstadt6 decades - 96
Adalbert Stifter19 decades - 97
Carl Larsson4 decades - 98
Frederic Edwin Church3 decades - 99
James Abbott McNeill Whistler12 decades - 100
Franz Xaver Winterhalter3 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.