← 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
Jean-Martin Charcot4 decades - 2
René Laennec0 decades - 3
Alexandre Yersin5 decades - 4
Paul Broca15 decades - 5
Charles Richet15 decades - 6
Xavier Bichat15 decades - 7
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran4 decades - 8
Dominique Jean Larrey0 decades - 9
Joseph Babinski0 decades - 10
Waldemar Haffkine0 decades - 11
Georges Gilles de la Tourette0 decades - 12
Paul Gachet5 decades - 13
Aimé Bonpland13 decades - 14
Albert Calmette11 decades - 15
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard7 decades - 16
Guillaume Dupuytren1 decades - 17
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol0 decades - 18
Adrien Proustnot measured- - 19
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuillenot measured- - 20
René Lesson0 decades - 21
Madeleine Brèsnot measured- - 22
Édouard Séguinnot measured-
- 23
André Marie Constant Duméril0 decades - 24
Pierre Marienot measured- - 25
Alexandre Lacassagnenot 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.