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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. 1Fyodor Dostoevsky1821-1881 · Russia · Writers17 decades
  2. 2Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · Russia · Writers18 decades
  3. 3Alexander Pushkin1799-1837 · Russia · Writers21 decades
  4. 4Jane Austen1775-1817 · United Kingdom · Writers19 decades
  5. 5Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849 · United States · Writers17 decades
  6. 6Oscar Wilde1854-1900 · Ireland · Writers14 decades
  7. 7Charles Dickens1812-1870 · United Kingdom · Writers20 decades
  8. 8Mark Twain1835-1910 · United States · Writers16 decades
  9. 9Victor Hugo1802-1885 · France · Writers22 decades
  10. 10Anton Chekhov1860-1904 · Russia · Writers15 decades
  11. 11Lord Byron1788-1824 · United Kingdom · Writers22 decades
  12. 12Rabindranath Tagore1861-1941 · India · Writers11 decades
  13. 13Alexandre Dumas1802-1870 · France · Writersnot measured-
  14. 14Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875 · Denmark · Writers18 decades
  15. 15Jules Verne1828-1905 · France · Writers16 decades
  16. 16Florence Nightingale1820-1910 · Writers17 decades
  17. 17Arthur Conan Doyle1859-1930 · United Kingdom · Writers12 decades
  18. 18Mary Shelley1797-1851 · United Kingdom · Writers16 decades
  19. 19Nikolai Gogol1809-1852 · Russia · Writers19 decades
  20. 20Émile Zola1840-1902 · France · Writers16 decades
  21. 21Lewis Carroll1832-1898 · United Kingdom · Writers16 decades
  22. 22George Sand1804-1876 · France · Writers20 decades
  23. 23George Bernard Shaw1856-1950 · United Kingdom · Writers13 decades
  24. 24Emily Brontë1818-1848 · United Kingdom · Writers14 decades
  25. 25Honoré de Balzac1799-1850 · France · Writers17 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.