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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. 1Jean-Martin Charcot1825-1893 · France · Doctors4 decades
  2. 2René Laennec1781-1826 · France · Doctors0 decades
  3. 3Alexandre Yersin1863-1943 · France · Doctors5 decades
  4. 4Paul Broca1824-1880 · France · Doctors15 decades
  5. 5Charles Richet1850-1935 · France · Doctors15 decades
  6. 6Xavier Bichat1771-1802 · France · Doctors15 decades
  7. 7Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran1845-1922 · France · Doctors4 decades
  8. 8Dominique Jean Larrey1766-1842 · France · Doctors0 decades
  9. 9Joseph Babinski1857-1932 · France · Doctors0 decades
  10. 10Waldemar Haffkine1856-1930 · France · Doctors0 decades
  11. 11Georges Gilles de la Tourette1857-1904 · France · Doctors0 decades
  12. 12Paul Gachet1828-1909 · France · Doctors5 decades
  13. 13Aimé Bonpland1773-1858 · France · Doctors13 decades
  14. 14Albert Calmette1863-1933 · France · Doctors11 decades
  15. 15Jean Marc Gaspard Itard1774-1838 · France · Doctors7 decades
  16. 16Guillaume Dupuytren1777-1835 · France · Doctors1 decades
  17. 17Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol1772-1840 · France · Doctors0 decades
  18. 18Adrien Proust1834-1903 · France · Doctorsnot measured-
  19. 19Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille1797-1869 · France · Doctorsnot measured-
  20. 20René Lesson1794-1849 · France · Doctors0 decades
  21. 21Madeleine Brès1842-1921 · France · Doctorsnot measured-
  22. 22Édouard Séguin1812-1880 · France · Doctorsnot measured-
  23. 23André Marie Constant Duméril1774-1860 · France · Doctors0 decades
  24. 24Pierre Marie1853-1940 · France · Doctorsnot measured-
  25. 25Alexandre Lacassagne1843-1924 · France · Doctorsnot 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.