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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. 1Henry Ford1863-1947 · United States · Founders16 decades
  2. 2John D. Rockefeller1839-1937 · United States · Founders14 decades
  3. 3Andrew Carnegie1835-1919 · United States · Founders14 decades
  4. 4J. P. Morgan1837-1913 · United States · Founders16 decades
  5. 5John Brown1800-1859 · United States · Foundersnot measured-
  6. 6Cornelius Vanderbilt1794-1877 · United States · Founders18 decades
  7. 7Levi Strauss1829-1902 · United States · Founders11 decades
  8. 8King C. Gillette1855-1932 · United States · Founders0 decades
  9. 9James Buchanan Duke1856-1925 · United States · Founders0 decades
  10. 10Henry J. Heinz1844-1919 · United States · Founders0 decades
  11. 11Elisha Otis1811-1861 · United States · Founders0 decades
  12. 12Johns Hopkins1795-1873 · United States · Founders21 decades
  13. 13Jay Gould1836-1892 · United States · Founders17 decades
  14. 14George Eastman1854-1932 · United States · Foundersnot measured-
  15. 15Jean Lafitte1776-1826 · United States · Founders12 decades
  16. 16William Crapo Durant1861-1947 · United States · Founders0 decades
  17. 17Milton S. Hershey1857-1945 · United States · Founders6 decades
  18. 18Solomon R. Guggenheim1861-1948 · United States · Founders8 decades
  19. 19George Peabody1795-1869 · United States · Founders19 decades
  20. 20Will Keith Kellogg1860-1951 · United States · Foundersnot measured-
  21. 21Ransom E. Olds1864-1950 · United States · Founders0 decades
  22. 22Cyrus West Field1819-1892 · United States · Founders0 decades
  23. 23Henry Clay Frick1849-1919 · United States · Foundersnot measured-
  24. 24Peter Cooper1791-1883 · United States · Founders20 decades
  25. 25Marcus Goldman1821-1904 · United States · Foundersnot 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.