← 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
Charles Darwin21 decades - 2
Michael Faraday20 decades - 3
James Clerk Maxwell14 decades - 4
J. J. Thomson0 decades - 5
John Dalton22 decades - 6
Isambard Kingdom Brunel2 decades - 7
Thomas Henry Huxley16 decades - 8
Humphry Davy22 decades - 9
George Stephenson22 decades - 10
Charles George Gordon5 decades - 11
James Prescott Joule3 decades - 12
Richard Trevithick19 decades - 13
Richard Owennot measured- - 14
Charles Lyell21 decades - 15
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh0 decades - 16
John Boyd Dunlop0 decades - 17
Henry Royce1 decades - 18
William Henry Bragg0 decades - 19
William Buckland14 decades - 20
Robert Stephenson22 decades - 21
William Ramsay17 decades - 22
William Henry Fox Talbot6 decades - 23
David Brewster22 decades - 24
John Edward Gray8 decades - 25
Anna Atkins0 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.