← 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.
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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.
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Henry Morton Stanley7 decades - 2
Walter Bagehot16 decades - 3
William Thomas Stead0 decades - 4
Thomas Stevensnot measured- - 5
Flora Shawnot measured- - 6
Rachel Beernot measured- - 7
Alfred Percy Sinnettnot measured- - 8
Thomas Power O'Connornot measured- - 9
Thomas Anstey Guthrienot measured- - 10
Robert Smythe Hichensnot measured- - 11
Bessie Rayner Parkesnot measured- - 12
J. M. Robertsonnot measured- - 13
Charlotte Wilsonnot measured- - 14
Helena Swanwicknot measured- - 15
Dora Montefiorenot measured- - 16
Gertrude Elizabeth Bloodnot measured- - 17
Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronetnot measured- - 18
C. P. Scottnot measured- - 19
Henry Vizetellynot measured- - 20
Henry Nevinsonnot measured- - 21
John Dickensnot measured- - 22
Ethel Arnoldnot measured- - 23
Marion Spielmannnot measured- - 24Charlotte Carmichael Stopesnot measured-
- 25
Robert Smith Surteesnot 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.