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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 Italian books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Giotto1267-1337 · 14th century · Italy · Artists5.5
  2. 2Antonio da Correggio1489-1534 · 16th century · Italy · Artists5.0
  3. 3Lorenzo de' Medici1449-1492 · 15th century · Politicians3.0
  4. 4Dante Alighieri1265-1321 · 14th century · Writers2.9
  5. 5Pietro Perugino1448-1523 · 15th century · Italy · Artists2.9
  6. 6Donato Bramante1444-1514 · 15th century · Italy · Architects2.6
  7. 7Torquato Tasso1544-1595 · 16th century · Italy · Writers2.6
  8. 8Caravaggio1571-1610 · 17th century · Italy · Artists2.1
  9. 9Apostolo Zeno1668-1750 · 18th century · Writers2.1
  10. 10Cimabue1240-1302 · 13th century · Artists2.1
  11. 11Tintoretto1519-1594 · 16th century · Italy · Artists1.9
  12. 12Charles Borromeo1538-1584 · 16th century · Italy · Religious Figures1.8
  13. 13Donatello1386-1466 · 15th century · Artists1.8
  14. 14Paul the Deacon720-799 · 8th century · Writers1.8
  15. 15Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519 · 15th century · Italy · Artists1.7
  16. 16Philip Neri1515-1595 · 16th century · Religious Figures1.7
  17. 17Marco Polo1254-1324 · 13th century · Italy · Historical Figures1.7
  18. 18Cosimo de' Medici1389-1464 · 15th century · Politicians1.7
  19. 19Galileo Galilei1564-1642 · 16th century · Italy · Scientists1.7
  20. 20Andrea Doria1466-1560 · 16th century · Italy · Politicians1.6
  21. 21Giulio Romano1499-1546 · 16th century · Italy · Artists1.6
  22. 22Guercino1591-1666 · 17th century · Italy · Artists1.5
  23. 23Domenichino1581-1641 · 17th century · Artists1.5
  24. 24Ugo Foscolo1778-1827 · 19th century · Writers1.4
  25. 25Petrarch1304-1374 · 14th century · Italy · Academics1.4
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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.