← 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 French books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
- 1
Voltaire37 - 2
Louis XIV of France32 - 3
Louis XVI of France16 - 4
Molière15 - 5
Louis XV of France10 - 6
Montesquieu7.7 - 7
Louis XVIII of France5.7 - 8
François Fénelon5.5 - 9
Louis XII of France5.2 - 10
Victor Hugo3.3 - 11
Charles X of France3.1 - 12
Marie Antoinette2.4 - 13
Joan of Arc2.4 - 14
Francis de Sales2.4 - 15
Philip V of Spain2.2 - 16
Francis II of France1.9 - 17
Marie de' Medici1.9 - 18
Napoleon III1.9 - 19
Vincent de Paul1.9 - 20
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme1.8 - 21
Louis Blanc1.6 - 22
Benjamin Constant1.5 - 23
Pope Julius II1.5 - 24
Jules Favre1.4 - 25
Jules Simon1.4
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Rabindranath Tagore11 decades - 2
Swami Vivekananda13 decades - 3
Ramakrishna14 decades - 4
Rani of Jhansi8 decades - 5
William Makepeace Thackeray17 decades - 6
Bahadur Shah Zafar6 decades - 7
Raja Ravi Varma0 decades - 8
Bal Gangadhar Tilak9 decades - 9
Jamsetji Tata0 decades - 10
Ghalib21 decades - 11
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad4 decades - 12
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee4 decades - 13
Syed Ahmad Khan8 decades - 14
Dayananda Saraswati0 decades - 15
Motilal Nehru10 decades - 16
Savitribai Phule0 decades - 17
Dadabhai Naoroji16 decades - 18
Swaminarayan6 decades - 19
Julia Margaret Cameron5 decades - 20
M. Visvesvaraya2 decades - 21
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar0 decades - 22
Augustus De Morgan11 decades - 23
James Brooke22 decades - 24
Anna Leonowens1 decades - 25
Abdul Karim13 decades - 26
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvinot measured- - 27
Jyotirao Phule0 decades - 28
Ram Mohan Roy11 decades - 29
Rukhmabai1 decades - 30
Dhondo Keshav Karve0 decades - 31
Surendranath Banerjeenot measured- - 32
Sayajirao Gaekwad IIInot measured- - 33
Badruddin Tyabjinot measured- - 34
Fatima Sheikhnot measured- - 35
Sher Singhnot measured- - 36
Abala Bosenot measured- - 37
Kandukuri Vireshalingamnot measured- - 38
Gurajada Apparaonot measured- - 39
C.P.Brownnot measured- - 40
Tukojirao Holkar IInot measured- - 41
Moran Sarkarnot measured- - 42
Mother Eliswa Vakayilnot measured- - 43
Samuel Vedanayagam Pillainot measured- - 44
Kali Charan Banerjeenot measured- - 45
Alladiya Khannot measured- - 46
Charles Donovannot measured- - 47
Baba Gurdit Singhnot measured- - 48Ratanji Dadabhoy Tatanot measured-
- 49Patnam Subramania Iyernot measured-
- 50
Pathani Samantanot measured- - 51
Baldeo Das Birlanot measured- - 52
Padmanabhan Palpunot measured- - 53
Prince Harnam Singh of Kapurthalanot measured- - 54Nabadwipchandra Dev Burmannot measured-
- 55Salim aliinot measured-
- 56Bhima Nayaknot measured-
- 57Babu Amar Singhnot measured-
- 58Rana Beni Madhonot measured-
- 59
Kishen Singhnot measured- - 60
Gurubai Karmarkarnot measured- - 61
Gopala Ballabha Dasnot measured- - 62
Kristo Das Palnot measured- - 63
Sundari Mohan Dasnot measured- - 64
Henry Braddonnot measured- - 65Sitanath Duttanot measured-
- 66C. Raja Raja Varmanot measured-
- 67
Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulunot measured- - 68
Shashibhushan Raychaudhurynot measured- - 69
Vemuri Saradambanot 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.