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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. 1John Philip Sousa1854-1932 · United States · Musicians13 decades
  2. 2Ignacy Jan Paderewski1860-1941 · United States · Musicians0 decades
  3. 3Stephen Foster1826-1864 · United States · Musicians18 decades
  4. 4Solomon Northup1808-1864 · United States · Musicians3 decades
  5. 5Fanny Crosby1820-1915 · United States · Musicians4 decades
  6. 6Edward MacDowell1860-1908 · United States · Musicians11 decades
  7. 7Josiah Warren1798-1874 · United States · Musicians5 decades
  8. 8Louis Moreau Gottschalk1829-1869 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  9. 9Emma Smith1804-1879 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  10. 10Victor Herbert1859-1924 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  11. 11Alexander Siloti1863-1945 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  12. 12Alexander Gretchaninov1864-1956 · United States · Musicians0 decades
  13. 13James Pierpont1822-1893 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  14. 14David Edward Hughes1831-1900 · United States · Musicians0 decades
  15. 15Phoebe Hearst1842-1919 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  16. 16Francis James Child1825-1896 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  17. 17Ernestine Schumann-Heink1861-1936 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  18. 18Lowell Mason1792-1872 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  19. 19Philip Bliss1838-1876 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  20. 20Horatio Parker1863-1919 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  21. 21Ira D. Sankey1840-1908 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  22. 22Ida Craddock1857-1902 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  23. 23Moriz Rosenthal1862-1946 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  24. 24George Whitefield Chadwick1854-1931 · United States · Musiciansnot measured-
  25. 25Mildred J. Hill1859-1916 · United States · 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.