1800–1899
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 Chinese books during the 19th century — whenever they lived.
In books written inEnglish18,114German3,599French3,347Italian1,787Spanish1,162Russian325Hebrew105Chinese9
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Per million words
- 1
Zhu Xi1130–1200 · 12th century · 🇨🇳 China · Writers870 - 2
Li Hongzhang1823–1901 · 19th century · 🇨🇳 China · Politicians149 - 3
Zhang Zhidong1837–1909 · 19th century · Politicians86 - 4
Zuo Zongtang1812–1885 · 19th century · 🇨🇳 China · Politicians43 - 5
Ban Gu32–92 · 1st century · Writers40 - 6
Ge Hong284–364 · 4th century · Academics40 - 7CSChen Shou233–297 · 3rd century · Writers14
- 8
Mao Zedong1893–1976 · 20th century · 🇨🇳 China · Politicians12 - 9
Lu Xun1881–1936 · 20th century · 🇨🇳 China · Writers11
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria1863–1914 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 2
Maximilian I of Mexico1832–1867 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians19 decades - 3
Ferdinand I of Austria1793–1875 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 4
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria1858–1889 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians0 decades - 5
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria1833–1896 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians16 decades - 6
Karl Lueger1844–1910 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians13 decades - 7
Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein1853–1938 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians17 decades - 8
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli1856–1941 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians0 decades - 9
Oskar Potiorek1853–1933 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians0 decades - 10
Georg Ritter von Schönerer1842–1921 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians9 decades - 11
Archduke Eugen of Austria1863–1954 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 12
Prince August, 3rd Prince of Koháry1818–1881 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians7 decades - 13
Leopold Berchtold1863–1942 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians4 decades - 14
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Michael Hainisch1858–1940 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politicians11 decades - 15
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Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria1863–1931 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 16
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik1854–1941 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 17
Stjepan Sarkotić1858–1939 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 18
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Ernest von Koerber1850–1919 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 19
Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky1830–1920 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 20
Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten1861–1921 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 21
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Prince Alfred, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Grätz1851–1927 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 22
Heinrich Clam-Martinic1863–1932 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 23
Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst1863–1918 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 24
Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo1854–1927 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 25
Alfred Krauss1862–1938 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 26
Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg1862–1931 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 27
Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein1850–1931 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 28
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Prince Aloys Franz de Paula Maria1846–1920 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 29
Jodok Fink1853–1929 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 30
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Hermann von Spaun1833–1919 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 31
Maximilian Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg1863–1941 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 32
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Baron Max Wladimir von Beck1854–1943 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 33
Alois, Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein1858–1944 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 34
Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen1852–1928 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 35
Joseph Samuel Bloch1850–1923 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 36
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Count Erich Kielmansegg1847–1923 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 37
Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen1860–1936 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 38
Jakob Reumann1853–1925 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 39
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn1852–1923 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 40
Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein1863–1940 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 41
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Heinrich Ritter von Wittek1844–1930 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 42
Karl Hermann Wolf1862–1941 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 43
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Friedrich von Georgi1852–1926 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 44
Benno Straucher1854–1940 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 45
Gustav Groß1856–1935 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 46
Franz Moroder1847–1920 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 47
Franz Klein1854–1926 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 48
Wilhelm Ellenbogen1863–1951 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 49
Prince Karl, 9th Prince of Auersperg1859–1927 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 50
Melanie Metternich-Zichy1832–1919 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 51
Richard Weiskirchner1861–1926 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 52
Viktor Tietz1859–1937 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 53
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Zeno Graf Welser von Welsersheimb1835–1921 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured— - 54
Anton Pace1851–1923 · 🇦🇹 Austria · Politiciansnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.