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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. 1Thomas Edison1847-1931 · United States · Scientists13 decades
  2. 2Alexander Graham Bell1847-1922 · United States · Scientists15 decades
  3. 3George Washington Carver1864-1943 · United States · Scientists9 decades
  4. 4Samuel Morse1791-1872 · United States · Scientists0 decades
  5. 5John Muir1838-1914 · United States · Scientists19 decades
  6. 6Samuel Colt1814-1862 · United States · Scientists18 decades
  7. 7John Browning1855-1926 · United States · Scientistsnot measured-
  8. 8John Stith Pemberton1831-1888 · United States · Scientistsnot measured-
  9. 9John Jacob Astor IV1864-1912 · United States · Scientists0 decades
  10. 10Robert Fulton1765-1815 · United States · Scientists22 decades
  11. 11Antonio Meucci1808-1889 · United States · Scientists14 decades
  12. 12Frederick Winslow Taylor1856-1915 · United States · Scientists8 decades
  13. 13Eli Whitney1765-1825 · United States · Scientists21 decades
  14. 14George Westinghouse1846-1914 · United States · Scientists15 decades
  15. 15Matthew C. Perry1794-1858 · United States · Scientists9 decades
  16. 16Sequoyah1770-1843 · United States · Scientists16 decades
  17. 17Charles Goodyear1800-1860 · United States · Scientists19 decades
  18. 18Isaac Singer1811-1875 · United States · Scientists0 decades
  19. 19George Meade1815-1872 · United States · Scientists13 decades
  20. 20Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903 · United States · Scientists5 decades
  21. 21Albert A. Michelson1852-1931 · United States · Scientists0 decades
  22. 22Edward Drinker Cope1840-1897 · United States · Scientists2 decades
  23. 23Herman Hollerith1860-1929 · United States · Scientists4 decades
  24. 24P. G. T. Beauregard1818-1893 · United States · Scientistsnot measured-
  25. 25Percival Lowell1855-1916 · United States · Scientists14 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.