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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. 1Claude Monet1840-1926 · France · Artists14 decades
  2. 2Paul Gauguin1848-1903 · France · Artists13 decades
  3. 3Paul Cézanne1839-1906 · France · Artists12 decades
  4. 4Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841-1919 · France · Artists12 decades
  5. 5Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec1864-1901 · France · Artists10 decades
  6. 6Auguste Rodin1840-1917 · France · Artists14 decades
  7. 7Édouard Manet1832-1883 · France · Artists15 decades
  8. 8Edgar Degas1834-1917 · France · Artists11 decades
  9. 9Eugène Delacroix1798-1863 · France · Artists20 decades
  10. 10Gustave Courbet1819-1877 · France · Artists16 decades
  11. 11Gustave Doré1832-1883 · France · Artists17 decades
  12. 12Camille Pissarro1830-1903 · France · Artists13 decades
  13. 13Georges Seurat1859-1891 · France · Artists11 decades
  14. 14Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres1780-1867 · France · Artistsnot measured-
  15. 15Berthe Morisot1841-1895 · France · Artists13 decades
  16. 16Henri Rousseau1844-1910 · France · Artists12 decades
  17. 17Camille Claudel1864-1943 · France · Artists11 decades
  18. 18William-Adolphe Bouguereau1825-1905 · France · Artists5 decades
  19. 19Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi1834-1904 · France · Artists4 decades
  20. 20Édouard-Henri Avril1849-1928 · France · Artists5 decades
  21. 21Théodore Géricault1791-1824 · France · Artists7 decades
  22. 22Gustave Caillebotte1848-1894 · France · Artists5 decades
  23. 23Nadar1820-1910 · France · Artistsnot measured-
  24. 24Jean-Léon Gérôme1824-1904 · France · Artists4 decades
  25. 25Jean-François Millet1814-1875 · France · Artists13 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.