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

  1. 1Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures6.7
  2. 2Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers3.1
  3. 3Nikolai Rezanov1764-1807 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.3
  4. 4Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians0.99
  5. 5Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century0.86
  6. 6Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.86
  7. 7Nikolay Karamzin1766-1826 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.85
  8. 8Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.82
  9. 9Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.66
  10. 10Avraamy Palitsyn1550-1626 · 16th century · Writers0.64
  11. 11Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.62
  12. 12Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.62
  13. 13Elizabeth of Russia1709-1761 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.58
  14. 14Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.57
  15. 15Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.53
  16. 16Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · 16th century · Writers0.53
  17. 17Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia1783-1801 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.43
  18. 18Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia1864-1931 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.42
  19. 19Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia1832-1909 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.42
  20. 20Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia1827-1892 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.39
  21. 21Grigory Orlov1734-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.38
  22. 22Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.36
  23. 23Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.35
  24. 24Alexander Bestuzhev1797-1837 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.34
  25. 25Ivan the Terrible1530-1584 · 16th century · Politicians0.33
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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. 1Napoleon1769-1821 · France · Historical Figures22 decades
  2. 2Abraham Lincoln1809-1865 · United States · Politicians22 decades
  3. 3Karl Marx1818-1883 · Germany · Academics17 decades
  4. 4Vincent van Gogh1853-1890 · Netherlands · Artists12 decades
  5. 5Fyodor Dostoevsky1821-1881 · Russia · Writers17 decades
  6. 6Nikola Tesla1856-1943 · Hungary · Scientists13 decades
  7. 7Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827 · Germany · Musicians21 decades
  8. 8Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · Russia · Writers18 decades
  9. 9Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  10. 10Alexander Pushkin1799-1837 · Russia · Writers21 decades
  11. 11Jane Austen1775-1817 · United Kingdom · Writers19 decades
  12. 12Sigmund Freud1856-1939 · Austria · Doctors12 decades
  13. 13Theodore Roosevelt1858-1919 · United States · Politicians16 decades
  14. 14Queen Victoria1819-1901 · United Kingdom · Historical Figuresnot measured-
  15. 15Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849 · United States · Writers17 decades
  16. 16Oscar Wilde1854-1900 · Ireland · Writers14 decades
  17. 17Charles Dickens1812-1870 · United Kingdom · Writers20 decades
  18. 18Mark Twain1835-1910 · United States · Writers16 decades
  19. 19Victor Hugo1802-1885 · France · Writers22 decades
  20. 20Charles Darwin1809-1882 · United Kingdom · Scientists21 decades
  21. 21Thomas Edison1847-1931 · United States · Scientists13 decades
  22. 22Simón Bolívar1783-1830 · Spain · Politicians21 decades
  23. 23Woodrow Wilson1856-1924 · United States · Politicians14 decades
  24. 24Otto von Bismarck1815-1898 · Germany · Politicians16 decades
  25. 25Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885 · United States · Politicians16 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.