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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. 1Thérèse of Lisieux1873-1897 · France · Academics10 decades
  2. 2Émile Durkheim1858-1917 · France · Academics11 decades
  3. 3Auguste Comte1798-1857 · France · Academics22 decades
  4. 4Henri Bergson1859-1941 · France · Academics12 decades
  5. 5Henri Poincaré1854-1912 · France · Academics13 decades
  6. 6Évariste Galois1811-1832 · France · Academics6 decades
  7. 7Joseph Fourier1768-1830 · France · Academics11 decades
  8. 8Jean-François Champollion1790-1832 · France · Academics6 decades
  9. 9Ernest Renan1823-1892 · France · Academics17 decades
  10. 10Charles Fourier1772-1837 · France · Academics19 decades
  11. 11Vilfredo Pareto1848-1923 · France · Academics13 decades
  12. 12Sophie Germain1776-1831 · France · Academics18 decades
  13. 13Augustin-Louis Cauchy1789-1857 · France · Academics0 decades
  14. 14Gustave Le Bon1841-1931 · France · Academics15 decades
  15. 15Frédéric Bastiat1801-1850 · France · Academics18 decades
  16. 16Allan Kardec1804-1869 · France · Academics16 decades
  17. 17Georges Sorel1847-1922 · France · Academics12 decades
  18. 18François Arago1786-1853 · France · Academics18 decades
  19. 19Henri Fayol1841-1925 · France · Academics11 decades
  20. 20Louis Auguste Blanqui1805-1881 · France · Academics19 decades
  21. 21Jean-Baptiste Say1767-1832 · France · Academics21 decades
  22. 22Léon Walras1834-1910 · France · Academics16 decades
  23. 23Charles Hermite1822-1901 · France · Academics7 decades
  24. 24Paul Painlevé1863-1933 · France · Academics13 decades
  25. 25Frédéric Passy1822-1912 · France · Academics17 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.