← 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 Hebrew books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rav Ashi13 - 2
Haggai12 - 3Simeon ben Gamliel II12
- 4Nathan the Babylonian11
- 5
Habakkuk7.3 - 6
Johanan ben Zakai4.8 - 7Saadia Gaon3.7
- 8Simeon ben Zoma3.4
- 9
Hai Gaon2.9 - 10
Hillel the Elder2.9 - 11
Sabbatai Zevi2.3 - 12
Ahad Ha'am2.2 - 13Samuel ibn Naghrillah2.1
- 14
Isaac Abrabanel1.6 - 15Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg1.5
- 16
Judas Maccabeus1.3 - 17Hanina ben Dosa1.3
- 18
Menasseh Ben Israel1.2 - 19Joseph Kimhi1.0
- 20Yanai0.99
- 21Eliezer ben Hurcanus0.89
- 22
Rabbeinu Tam0.83 - 23
Josephus0.74 - 24
Amram Gaon0.67 - 25
Chaim Joseph David Azulai0.66
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Victor Hugo22 decades - 2
Alexandre Dumasnot measured- - 3
Jules Verne16 decades - 4
Émile Zola16 decades - 5
George Sand20 decades - 6
Honoré de Balzac17 decades - 7
Arthur Rimbaud14 decades - 8
Guy de Maupassant14 decades - 9
Charles Baudelaire17 decades - 10
Heinrich Heine21 decades - 11
Gustave Flaubert17 decades - 12
Stendhal22 decades - 13
Alexis de Tocqueville19 decades - 14
Paul Verlaine14 decades - 15
Alfred de Musset19 decades - 16
François-René de Chateaubriand11 decades - 17
Alexandre Dumas filsnot measured- - 18
Anatole France15 decades - 19
Germaine de Staël10 decades - 20
Alphonse de Lamartine20 decades - 21
Théophile Gautier19 decades - 22
Louise Michel15 decades - 23
Alphonse Daudet16 decades - 24
Prosper Mérimée19 decades - 25
Stéphane Mallarmé14 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.