← 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 Italian books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
- 1
Giotto5.5 - 2
Antonio da Correggio5.0 - 3
Lorenzo de' Medici3.0 - 4
Dante Alighieri2.9 - 5
Pietro Perugino2.9 - 6
Donato Bramante2.6 - 7
Torquato Tasso2.6 - 8
Caravaggio2.1 - 9
Apostolo Zeno2.1 - 10
Cimabue2.1 - 11
Tintoretto1.9 - 12
Charles Borromeo1.8 - 13
Donatello1.8 - 14
Paul the Deacon1.8 - 15
Leonardo da Vinci1.7 - 16
Philip Neri1.7 - 17
Marco Polo1.7 - 18
Cosimo de' Medici1.7 - 19
Galileo Galilei1.7 - 20
Andrea Doria1.6 - 21
Giulio Romano1.6 - 22
Guercino1.5 - 23
Domenichino1.5 - 24
Ugo Foscolo1.4 - 25
Petrarch1.4
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Karl Marx17 decades - 2
Ludwig van Beethoven21 decades - 3
Friedrich Nietzsche15 decades - 4
Otto von Bismarck16 decades - 5
Richard Wagner19 decades - 6
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel21 decades - 7
Carl Friedrich Gauss11 decades - 8
Wilhelm II, German Emperornot measured- - 9
Paul von Hindenburg10 decades - 10
Max Weber15 decades - 11
Max Planck14 decades - 12
Johannes Brahms17 decades - 13
Empress Elisabeth of Austria0 decades - 14
Robert Schumann19 decades - 15
Wilhelm Röntgen11 decades - 16
William I, German Emperornot measured- - 17
Carl von Clausewitz12 decades - 18
David Hilbert14 decades - 19
Richard Strauss13 decades - 20
Ludwig II of Bavarianot measured- - 21
Frederick III, German Emperornot measured- - 22
Robert Koch14 decades - 23
Klemens von Metternich0 decades - 24
E. T. A. Hoffmann21 decades - 25
Clara Zetkin11 decades - 26
Georg Cantor14 decades - 27
Pyotr Stolypin6 decades - 28
Albert, Prince Consortnot measured- - 29
Heinrich von Kleist22 decades - 30
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder13 decades - 31
Bernhard Riemann12 decades - 32
Gerhart Hauptmann13 decades - 33
Frederick William III of Prussianot measured- - 34
Christian IX of Denmark16 decades - 35
Karl May14 decades - 36
Novalis22 decades - 37
Heinrich Schliemann15 decades - 38
Friedrich Hölderlin18 decades - 39
Theodor Fontane17 decades - 40
Ernst Haeckel16 decades - 41
Ludwig Feuerbach19 decades - 42
Karl Benz11 decades - 43
Jacob Grimm21 decades - 44
Paul Ehrlich13 decades - 45
Wilhelm von Humboldt22 decades - 46
Carl Maria von Weber21 decades - 47
Georg Büchner17 decades - 48
Wilhelm Wundt15 decades - 49
Gottlob Frege9 decades - 50
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling9 decades - 51
Gottlieb Daimler11 decades - 52
Hermann von Helmholtz14 decades - 53
Justus von Liebig17 decades - 54
Otto Lilienthal13 decades - 55
Theodor Mommsen18 decades - 56
August von Mackensen2 decades - 57
Georg Ohm12 decades - 58
Werner von Siemens13 decades - 59
Karl Kautsky13 decades - 60
Carol I of Romanianot measured- - 61
August Bebel14 decades - 62
Wilhelm Busch15 decades - 63
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeldnot measured- - 64
Max Liebermann13 decades - 65
Ludwig III of Bavarianot measured- - 66
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhinenot measured- - 67
Erich von Falkenhayn6 decades - 68
Georgy Lvov2 decades - 69
Alois Alzheimer3 decades - 70
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz0 decades - 71
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger0 decades - 72
Eduard Bernstein13 decades - 73
Max Müller5 decades - 74
Maximilian II of Bavaria0 decades - 75
Theodor Storm17 decades - 76
Friedrich Fröbel18 decades - 77
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhinenot measured- - 78
Ferdinand von Zeppelin5 decades - 79
Karl Friedrich Schinkel16 decades - 80
Karl Weierstrass8 decades - 81
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi1 decades - 82
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen0 decades - 83
Philipp Lenard11 decades - 84
Wilhelm Grimm22 decades - 85
Bernhard von Bülow12 decades - 86
Caroline of Brunswick16 decades - 87
Princess Sophie of Bavarianot measured- - 88
Robert Bosch13 decades - 89
Leopold von Ranke16 decades - 90
Houston Stewart Chamberlain13 decades - 91
Leo von Caprivi5 decades - 92
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff14 decades - 93
Carl Zeiss13 decades - 94
Robert Bunsen9 decades - 95
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben6 decades - 96
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet0 decades - 97
Bettina von Arnim18 decades - 98
Felix Klein15 decades - 99
August Kekulé4 decades - 100
Friedrich Schlegel22 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.