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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. 1Edward Elgar1857-1934 · United Kingdom · Musicians13 decades
  2. 2Emma, Lady Hamilton1765-1815 · United Kingdom · Musicians1 decades
  3. 3Frederick Delius1862-1934 · United Kingdom · Musicians8 decades
  4. 4Ethel Smyth1858-1944 · United Kingdom · Musicians11 decades
  5. 5Hubert Parry1848-1918 · United Kingdom · Musicians12 decades
  6. 6Anna Brownell Jameson1794-1860 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  7. 7Edward German1862-1936 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  8. 8Alison Skipworth1863-1952 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  9. 9George Henschel1850-1934 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  10. 10Emánuel Moór1863-1931 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  11. 11Frederic Hymen Cowen1852-1935 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  12. 12Arthur Somervell1863-1937 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  13. 13Tobias Matthay1858-1945 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  14. 14Leslie Stuart1863-1928 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  15. 15Frederick Corder1852-1932 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  16. 16Sidney Jones1861-1946 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  17. 17Marie Tempest1864-1942 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  18. 18Isidore de Lara1858-1935 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  19. 19Maude Valérie White1855-1937 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  20. 20Clara Novello Davies1861-1943 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  21. 21Louis Beethoven Prout1864-1943 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  22. 22Beauvoir De Lisle1864-1955 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  23. 23Herbert Booth1862-1926 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  24. 24Marjory Kennedy-Fraser1857-1930 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot measured-
  25. 25Adrian Ross1859-1933 · United Kingdom · Musiciansnot 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.