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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. 1David Lloyd George1863-1945 · United Kingdom · Politicians11 decades
  2. 2Cecil Rhodes1853-1902 · United Kingdom · Politicians12 decades
  3. 3William Ewart Gladstone1809-1898 · United Kingdom · Politicians18 decades
  4. 4H. H. Asquith1852-1928 · United Kingdom · Politicians11 decades
  5. 5Emmeline Pankhurst1858-1928 · United Kingdom · Politicians7 decades
  6. 6Robert Peel1788-1850 · United Kingdom · Politicians22 decades
  7. 7Arthur Balfour1848-1930 · United Kingdom · Politicians15 decades
  8. 8Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston1784-1865 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  9. 9Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury1830-1903 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  10. 10Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover1771-1851 · United Kingdom · Politicians0 decades
  11. 11Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig1861-1928 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  12. 12John Russell, 1st Earl Russell1792-1878 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  13. 13Henry Campbell-Bannerman1836-1908 · United Kingdom · Politicians11 decades
  14. 14Austen Chamberlain1863-1937 · United Kingdom · Politicians13 decades
  15. 15Lord Randolph Churchill1849-1895 · United Kingdom · Politicians15 decades
  16. 16Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery1847-1929 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  17. 17Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany1853-1884 · United Kingdom · Politicians0 decades
  18. 18Eleanor Marx1855-1898 · United Kingdom · Politicians8 decades
  19. 19Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon1862-1933 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  20. 20Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby1861-1936 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  21. 21Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge1774-1850 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  22. 22John French, 1st Earl of Ypres1852-1925 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  23. 23John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe1859-1935 · United Kingdom · Politiciansnot measured-
  24. 24Keir Hardie1856-1915 · United Kingdom · Politicians13 decades
  25. 25Arthur Henderson1863-1935 · United Kingdom · Politicians12 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.