← 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.
- 1
Alexander Griboyedov13 decades - 2
Sergei Witte9 decades - 3
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia20 decades - 4
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 5
Nikolai Yudenich1 decades - 6
Pavel Milyukov7 decades - 7
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia19 decades - 8
Alexander Gorchakov11 decades - 9
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia17 decades - 10
Mikhail Alekseyev9 decades - 11
Alexei Kuropatkin3 decades - 12
Alexey Andreevich Arakcheyev6 decades - 13
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia16 decades - 14
Mikhail Speransky12 decades - 15
Alexander Guchkov8 decades - 16
Ismail Gaspıralı2 decades - 17
Ivan Paskevich0 decades - 18
Mikhail Loris-Melikov0 decades - 19
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov17 decades - 20
Sergey Sazonov2 decades - 21
Nikolay Chkheidze0 decades - 22
Mikhail Vorontsov15 decades - 23
Alexander von Benckendorff4 decades - 24
Vyacheslav von Plehve2 decades - 25
Ivan Goremykin1 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.