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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 Spanish books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.

  1. 1John of God1495-1550 · 16th century · Portugal5.8
  2. 2Lope de Vega1562-1635 · 16th century · Spain · Writers5.3
  3. 3Francis Xavier1506-1552 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures4.5
  4. 4John of Austria1547-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians4.2
  5. 5Gonzalo Pizarro1502-1548 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures3.3
  6. 6Nicolás Antonio1617-1684 · 17th century · Spain · Politicians2.3
  7. 7John I of France1316-1316 · 14th century · France · Historical Figures2.1
  8. 8Francisco Pizarro1478-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures2.0
  9. 9Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.9
  10. 10Diego de Almagro1475-1538 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.7
  11. 11Vincent Ferrer1350-1419 · 14th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.6
  12. 12Ambrosio de Morales1513-1591 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.5
  13. 13Hernando Pizarro1502-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.4
  14. 14Pedro de Valdivia1497-1553 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians1.3
  15. 15Pedro de Alvarado1486-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.3
  16. 16Wittiza686-710 · 8th century · Historical Figures1.2
  17. 17Pope Alexander VI1431-1503 · 15th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.2
  18. 18Ignatius of Loyola1491-1556 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.1
  19. 19Garcilaso de la Vega1503-1536 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.0
  20. 20Francisco Quevedo1584-1645 · 17th century · Spain · Writers1.00
  21. 21Juan López de Padilla1490-1521 · 16th century · Activists0.90
  22. 22Gonzalo de Sandoval1497-1528 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.86
  23. 23Lope de Rueda1505-1566 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.82
  24. 24Juan de Herrera1530-1597 · 16th century · Spain · Architects0.82
  25. 25Bartolomé de las Casas1484-1566 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.81
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Napoleon1769-1821 · France · Historical Figures22 decades
  2. 2Victor Hugo1802-1885 · France · Writers22 decades
  3. 3Alexandre Dumas1802-1870 · France · Writersnot measured-
  4. 4Frédéric Chopin1810-1849 · France · Musicians16 decades
  5. 5Jules Verne1828-1905 · France · Writers16 decades
  6. 6Claude Monet1840-1926 · France · Artists14 decades
  7. 7Napoleon III1808-1873 · France · Politicians21 decades
  8. 8Louis Pasteur1822-1895 · France · Scientists14 decades
  9. 9Émile Zola1840-1902 · France · Writers16 decades
  10. 10George Sand1804-1876 · France · Writers20 decades
  11. 11Honoré de Balzac1799-1850 · France · Writers17 decades
  12. 12Sarah Bernhardt1844-1923 · France · Actors15 decades
  13. 13Arthur Rimbaud1854-1891 · France · Writers14 decades
  14. 14Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882 · France11 decades
  15. 15Guy de Maupassant1850-1893 · France · Writers14 decades
  16. 16Charles Baudelaire1821-1867 · France · Writers17 decades
  17. 17Paul Gauguin1848-1903 · France · Artists13 decades
  18. 18Philippe Pétain1856-1951 · France · Politicians8 decades
  19. 19Paul Cézanne1839-1906 · France · Artists12 decades
  20. 20Claude Debussy1862-1918 · France · Musicians12 decades
  21. 21Heinrich Heine1797-1856 · France · Writers21 decades
  22. 22Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841-1919 · France · Artists12 decades
  23. 23Gustave Flaubert1821-1880 · France · Writers17 decades
  24. 24Pierre Curie1859-1906 · France · Scientists13 decades
  25. 25Louis Philippe I1773-1850 · France · Models19 decades
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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.