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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. 1Christian Doppler1803-1853 · Austria · Academics8 decades
  2. 2Carl Menger1840-1921 · Austria · Academics14 decades
  3. 3Svetozar Boroević1856-1920 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  4. 4Friedrich von Wieser1851-1926 · Austria · Academics8 decades
  5. 5Alexius Meinong1853-1920 · Austria · Academics7 decades
  6. 6Heinrich Lammasch1853-1920 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  7. 7Christian von Ehrenfels1859-1932 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  8. 8Eugen Ehrlich1862-1922 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  9. 9Georg Alexander Pick1859-1942 · Austria · Academics4 decades
  10. 10Felix von Luschan1854-1924 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  11. 11Josef Strzygowski1862-1941 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  12. 12Josef Popper-Lynkeus1838-1921 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  13. 13Franz Mertens1840-1927 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  14. 14Wilhelm Jerusalem1854-1923 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  15. 15Friedrich Salomon Krauss1859-1938 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  16. 16Moriz Winternitz1863-1937 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  17. 17Josef Szombathy1853-1943 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  18. 18Alfred von Domaszewski1856-1927 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  19. 19Gabriel Anton1858-1933 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  20. 20Wilhelm Exner1840-1931 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  21. 21Johann Berger1845-1933 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  22. 22Sigmund Exner1846-1926 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  23. 23Max Freiherr von Waldberg1858-1938 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  24. 24Moritz Benedikt1835-1920 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
  25. 25Karl Grobben1854-1945 · Austria · Academicsnot measured-
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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.