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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. 1Theodor Herzl1860-1904 · Hungary · Journalists13 decades
  2. 2Ambrose Bierce1842-1914 · United States · Journalists13 decades
  3. 3Nellie Bly1864-1922 · United States · Journalists13 decades
  4. 4Henry Morton Stanley1841-1904 · United Kingdom · Journalists7 decades
  5. 5Ida B. Wells1862-1931 · United States · Journalists6 decades
  6. 6Henry Adams1838-1918 · United States · Journalists19 decades
  7. 7William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879 · United States · Journalists19 decades
  8. 8Wilhelm Liebknecht1826-1900 · Germany · Journalists13 decades
  9. 9Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903 · United States · Journalists16 decades
  10. 10Melvil Dewey1851-1931 · United States · Journalists15 decades
  11. 11Carrie Chapman Catt1859-1947 · United States · Journalists12 decades
  12. 12Ida Tarbell1857-1944 · United States · Journalists12 decades
  13. 13Walter Bagehot1826-1877 · United Kingdom · Journalists16 decades
  14. 14Lucy Stone1818-1893 · United States · Journalists17 decades
  15. 15William Thomas Stead1849-1912 · United Kingdom · Journalists0 decades
  16. 16Matilda Joslyn Gage1826-1898 · United States · Journalists5 decades
  17. 17Jules Vallès1832-1885 · France · Journalists16 decades
  18. 18Nicolás Avellaneda1837-1885 · Argentina · Journalists17 decades
  19. 19Matilde Serao1856-1927 · Greece · Journalists15 decades
  20. 20Isabella Beeton1836-1865 · Journalists0 decades
  21. 21Benjamin Tucker1854-1939 · United States · Journalistsnot measured-
  22. 22Ernesto Teodoro Moneta1833-1918 · Italy · Journalists11 decades
  23. 23Dmitry Pisarev1840-1868 · Russia · Journalists10 decades
  24. 24Andrew Barton Paterson1864-1941 · Australia · Journalists0 decades
  25. 25Jules Guesde1845-1922 · France · Journalists14 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.