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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. 1Karl Marx1818-1883 · Germany · Academics17 decades
  2. 2Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  3. 3Arthur Schopenhauer1788-1860 · Academics20 decades
  4. 4Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770-1831 · Germany · Academics21 decades
  5. 5Ada Lovelace1815-1852 · Academics3 decades
  6. 6Søren Kierkegaard1813-1855 · Denmark · Academics3 decades
  7. 7Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855 · Germany · Academics11 decades
  8. 8Swami Vivekananda1863-1902 · India · Academics13 decades
  9. 9Friedrich Engels1820-1895 · United Kingdom · Academics17 decades
  10. 10Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882 · United States · Academics19 decades
  11. 11Max Weber1864-1920 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  12. 12John Stuart Mill1806-1873 · United Kingdom · Academics18 decades
  13. 13Charles Babbage1791-1871 · United Kingdom · Academics20 decades
  14. 14Thérèse of Lisieux1873-1897 · France · Academics10 decades
  15. 15Ramakrishna1836-1886 · India · Academics14 decades
  16. 16Émile Durkheim1858-1917 · France · Academics11 decades
  17. 17William James1842-1910 · United States · Academicsnot measured-
  18. 18David Hilbert1862-1943 · Germany · Academics14 decades
  19. 19John Dewey1859-1952 · United States · Academics14 decades
  20. 20Auguste Comte1798-1857 · France · Academics22 decades
  21. 21Henri Bergson1859-1941 · France · Academics12 decades
  22. 22Henri Poincaré1854-1912 · France · Academics13 decades
  23. 23Évariste Galois1811-1832 · France · Academics6 decades
  24. 24Georg Cantor1845-1918 · Germany · Academics14 decades
  25. 25Max Stirner1806-1856 · Academics18 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.