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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. 1Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882 · United States · Academics19 decades
  2. 2William James1842-1910 · United States · Academicsnot measured-
  3. 3John Dewey1859-1952 · United States · Academics14 decades
  4. 4Charles Sanders Peirce1839-1914 · United States · Academics9 decades
  5. 5Henry George1839-1897 · United States · Academics19 decades
  6. 6Franz Boas1858-1942 · United States · Academics14 decades
  7. 7Thorstein Veblen1857-1929 · United States · Academics11 decades
  8. 8Oliver Wendell Holmes1841-1935 · United States · Academicsnot measured-
  9. 9Friedrich List1789-1846 · United States · Academics18 decades
  10. 10George Herbert Mead1863-1931 · United States · Academics7 decades
  11. 11Nicholas Murray Butler1862-1947 · United States · Academics14 decades
  12. 12Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain1828-1914 · United States · Academics0 decades
  13. 13Othniel Charles Marsh1831-1899 · United States · Academics0 decades
  14. 14Lewis H. Morgan1818-1881 · United States · Academics15 decades
  15. 15William Miller1782-1849 · United States · Academics22 decades
  16. 16G. Stanley Hall1844-1924 · United States · Academics14 decades
  17. 17Dwight Lyman Moody1837-1899 · United States · Academics0 decades
  18. 18John William Draper1811-1882 · United States · Academics7 decades
  19. 19Hugo Münsterberg1863-1916 · United States · Academics3 decades
  20. 20Josiah Royce1855-1916 · United States · Academics14 decades
  21. 21Mary Whiton Calkins1863-1930 · United States · Academics2 decades
  22. 22William Graham Sumner1840-1910 · United States · Academics11 decades
  23. 23Robert Ezra Park1864-1944 · United States · Academics0 decades
  24. 24Theodore Parker1810-1860 · United States · Academics18 decades
  25. 25Cyrus Ingerson Scofield1843-1921 · United States · Academicsnot 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.