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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. 1Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849 · United States · Writers17 decades
  2. 2Mark Twain1835-1910 · United States · Writers16 decades
  3. 3Emily Dickinson1830-1886 · United States · Writers13 decades
  4. 4Henry David Thoreau1817-1862 · United States · Writers13 decades
  5. 5Walt Whitman1819-1892 · United States · Writers17 decades
  6. 6Harriet Tubman1821-1913 · United States · Writers9 decades
  7. 7Herman Melville1819-1891 · United States · Writers18 decades
  8. 8Frederick Douglass1818-1895 · United States · Writers18 decades
  9. 9Louisa May Alcott1832-1888 · United States · Writers14 decades
  10. 10Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864 · United States · Writers19 decades
  11. 11Henry James1843-1916 · United States · Writers18 decades
  12. 12Harriet Beecher Stowe1811-1896 · United States · Writers17 decades
  13. 13Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882 · United States · Writers18 decades
  14. 14Washington Irving1783-1859 · United States · Writers22 decades
  15. 15Edith Wharton1862-1937 · United States · Writers13 decades
  16. 16L. Frank Baum1856-1919 · United States · Writers8 decades
  17. 17William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891 · United States · Writers14 decades
  18. 18Helena Blavatsky1831-1891 · United States · Writers2 decades
  19. 19Sojourner Truth1797-1883 · United States · Writers13 decades
  20. 20O. Henry1862-1910 · United States · Writers14 decades
  21. 21James Fenimore Cooper1789-1851 · United States · Writers18 decades
  22. 22Buffalo Bill1846-1917 · United States · Writers15 decades
  23. 23Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815-1902 · United States · Writers15 decades
  24. 24Ellen G. White1827-1915 · United States · Writers6 decades
  25. 25Frances Hodgson Burnett1849-1924 · United States · Writers15 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.