← 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 English books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
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Jesus94 - 2
Homer15 - 3
Cicero13 - 4
Augustus13 - 5
Plato10 - 6
Virgil9.6 - 7
Aristotle9.4 - 8
Socrates6.4 - 9
Herodotus6.2 - 10
Plutarch5.6 - 11
Ovid4.2 - 12
Strabo4.1 - 13
Charlemagne3.9 - 14
Demosthenes3.8 - 15
Lord Byron3.6 - 16
Livy3.4 - 17
Origen3.1 - 18
Cleopatra3.0 - 19
Xenophon3.0 - 20
Walter Scott3.0 - 21
Tertullian2.7 - 22
James II, Count of Urgell2.6 - 23
Robert Peel2.6 - 24
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor2.6 - 25
Pericles2.5
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Sigmund Freud12 decades - 2
Franz Schubert22 decades - 3
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austrianot measured- - 4
Franz Joseph I of Austria18 decades - 5
Franz Liszt19 decades - 6
Gustav Klimt12 decades - 7
Johann Strauss II16 decades - 8
Maximilian I of Mexiconot measured- - 9
Ferdinand I of Austrianot measured- - 10
Ludwig Boltzmann15 decades - 11
Alois Hitler8 decades - 12
Anton Bruckner14 decades - 13
Arthur Schnitzler14 decades - 14
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria0 decades - 15
Klara Hitler1 decades - 16
Otto of Greece0 decades - 17
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria0 decades - 18
Johann Strauss Inot measured- - 19
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria0 decades - 20
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria16 decades - 21
Archduchess Gisela of Austria0 decades - 22
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf5 decades - 23
Christian Doppler8 decades - 24
Carl Czerny15 decades - 25
Franz Grillparzer20 decades - 26
Otto Wagner15 decades - 27
Ferdinand II of Portugalnot measured- - 28
Carl Menger14 decades - 29
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart2 decades - 30
Baroness Mary Vetsera9 decades - 31
Karl Lueger13 decades - 32
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austrianot measured- - 33
Božena Němcová0 decades - 34
Julius Wagner-Jauregg2 decades - 35
Archduchess Sophie of Austria0 decades - 36
István Széchenyi0 decades - 37
Peter Altenberg13 decades - 38
Josef Strauss0 decades - 39
Daniel Swarovski0 decades - 40
Franz I, Prince of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 41
Josef Breuer12 decades - 42
Georg Ritter von Schönerer9 decades - 43
Josef Stefan4 decades - 44
Oskar Potiorek0 decades - 45
Franz Xaver Gruber5 decades - 46
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli0 decades - 47Franz Xaver Süssmayr3 decades
- 48
Carl Auer von Welsbach0 decades - 49
Svetozar Boroevićnot measured- - 50
Friedrich von Wieser8 decades - 51
Hermann Bahr14 decades - 52
Ferdinand Raimund19 decades - 53
Michael Hainisch11 decades - 54
Felix Weingartner14 decades - 55
Leopold Berchtold4 decades - 56
Georg Luger0 decades - 57
Archduke Eugen of Austrianot measured- - 58
Alexius Meinong7 decades - 59
Prince August, 3rd Prince of Koháry7 decades - 60
Katharina Schrattnot measured- - 61
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austrianot measured- - 62
Peter Fendi7 decades - 63
Archduchess Mathilda of Austrianot measured- - 64
Alfred Hermann Fried3 decades - 65
Arthur Arz von Straußenburgnot measured- - 66
Nathan Birnbaumnot measured- - 67
Johann Palisa0 decades - 68
Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austrianot measured- - 69
Joseph Lanner5 decades - 70
Pauline von Metternichnot measured- - 71
Hermann Kövess von Kövessházanot measured- - 72
Robert Fuchs13 decades - 73
Ludwig von Köchel0 decades - 74
Heinrich Lammaschnot measured- - 75
Hanns Hörbigernot measured- - 76
Paja Jovanovićnot measured- - 77
Amalia Freudnot measured- - 78
Guido Adler14 decades - 79
Viktor Dankl von Krasniknot measured- - 80
Franz Defregger6 decades - 81
Carl Mollnot measured- - 82
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebranot measured- - 83
Carl Michael Ziehrernot measured- - 84
Stjepan Sarkotićnot measured- - 85
Alexander von Krobatinnot measured- - 86
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschlnot measured- - 87
Carl Zeller3 decades - 88
Anna Nahowskinot measured- - 89Christian von Ehrenfelsnot measured-
- 90
Berta Zuckerkandl-Szepsnot measured- - 91
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädtennot measured- - 92
Emil von Rezniceknot measured- - 93
Eugen Ehrlichnot measured- - 94
Eugen Steinachnot measured- - 95
Heinrich von Ferstelnot measured- - 96
Georg Alexander Pick4 decades - 97
Felix von Luschannot measured- - 98
Michael Mayr12 decades - 99
Wilhelm Kienzl12 decades - 100
Ernest von Koerbernot measured-
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.