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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. 1Arthur Schnitzler1862-1931 · Austria · Writers14 decades
  2. 2Franz Grillparzer1791-1872 · Austria · Writers20 decades
  3. 3Božena Němcová1820-1862 · Austria · Writers0 decades
  4. 4István Széchenyi1791-1860 · Austria · Writers0 decades
  5. 5Peter Altenberg1859-1919 · Austria · Writers13 decades
  6. 6Hermann Bahr1863-1934 · Austria · Writers14 decades
  7. 7Ferdinand Raimund1790-1836 · Austria · Writers19 decades
  8. 8Hanns Hörbiger1860-1931 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  9. 9Michael Mayr1864-1922 · Austria · Writers12 decades
  10. 10Rosa Mayreder1858-1938 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  11. 11Carl Grünberg1861-1940 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  12. 12Isidore Singer1859-1939 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  13. 13Marianne Hainisch1839-1936 · Austria · Writers5 decades
  14. 14Leo Stein1861-1921 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  15. 15Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein1861-1945 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  16. 16Viktor Léon1858-1940 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  17. 17Spiridon Gopčević1855-1936 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  18. 18Konstantin Dumba1856-1947 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  19. 19Georg Marco1863-1923 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  20. 20Ottokar Kernstock1848-1928 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  21. 21Karel Klostermann1848-1923 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  22. 22Frederick Eckstein1861-1939 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  23. 23Aloisia Kirschner1854-1934 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  24. 24Rudolf Eitelberger1817-1885 · Austria · Writersnot measured-
  25. 25Gotthard Deutsch1859-1921 · Austria · Writersnot 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.