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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. 1E. T. A. Hoffmann1776-1822 · Germany · Writers21 decades
  2. 2Heinrich von Kleist1777-1811 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  3. 3Helmuth von Moltke the Elder1800-1891 · Germany · Writers13 decades
  4. 4Gerhart Hauptmann1862-1946 · Germany · Writers13 decades
  5. 5Karl May1842-1912 · Germany · Writers14 decades
  6. 6Novalis1772-1801 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  7. 7Friedrich Hölderlin1770-1843 · Germany · Writers18 decades
  8. 8Theodor Fontane1819-1898 · Germany · Writers17 decades
  9. 9Georg Büchner1813-1837 · Germany · Writers17 decades
  10. 10Theodor Storm1817-1888 · Germany · Writers17 decades
  11. 11Wilhelm Grimm1786-1859 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  12. 12Leopold von Ranke1795-1886 · Germany · Writers16 decades
  13. 13Bettina von Arnim1785-1859 · Germany · Writers18 decades
  14. 14Friedrich Schlegel1772-1829 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  15. 15Wilhelm Hauff1802-1827 · Germany · Writers20 decades
  16. 16Frank Wedekind1864-1918 · Germany · Writers12 decades
  17. 17Clemens Brentano1778-1842 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  18. 18Eduard Mörike1804-1875 · Germany · Writers18 decades
  19. 19Wilhelm Dilthey1833-1911 · Germany · Writers14 decades
  20. 20Ernst Moritz Arndt1769-1860 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  21. 21Elisabeth of Wied1843-1916 · Germany · Writers0 decades
  22. 22Friedrich Rückert1788-1866 · Germany · Writers22 decades
  23. 23Anne Catherine Emmerich1774-1824 · Germany · Writers8 decades
  24. 24Multatuli1820-1887 · Germany · Writers9 decades
  25. 25Philipp Mainländer1841-1876 · Germany · Writers2 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.