← Fame through time1800-1899
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.
- 1
Zhu Xi870 - 2
Li Hongzhang149 - 3
Zhang Zhidong86 - 4
Zuo Zongtang43 - 5
Ban Gu40 - 6
Ge Hong40 - 7Chen Shou14
- 8
Mao Zedong12 - 9
Lu Xun11
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Arthur Schnitzler14 decades - 2
Franz Grillparzer20 decades - 3
Božena Němcová0 decades - 4
István Széchenyi0 decades - 5
Peter Altenberg13 decades - 6
Hermann Bahr14 decades - 7
Ferdinand Raimund19 decades - 8
Hanns Hörbigernot measured- - 9
Michael Mayr12 decades - 10
Rosa Mayredernot measured- - 11Carl Grünbergnot measured-
- 12
Isidore Singernot measured- - 13
Marianne Hainisch5 decades - 14
Leo Steinnot measured- - 15
Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichsteinnot measured- - 16
Viktor Léonnot measured- - 17
Spiridon Gopčevićnot measured- - 18
Konstantin Dumbanot measured- - 19
Georg Marconot measured- - 20
Ottokar Kernstocknot measured- - 21
Karel Klostermannnot measured- - 22
Frederick Ecksteinnot measured- - 23
Aloisia Kirschnernot measured- - 24
Rudolf Eitelbergernot measured- - 25
Gotthard Deutschnot measured-
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.