← 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
Wilhelm Liebknecht13 decades - 2
Johannes Zukertort0 decades - 3
Bertha Pappenheim6 decades - 4
Maximilian Hardennot measured- - 5
Theodor Reussnot measured- - 6
Karl Grünnot measured- - 7
Curt von Bardelebennot measured- - 8
Adolf Bartelsnot measured- - 9
Wilhelm Hasenclevernot measured- - 10
Leopold Sonnemannnot measured- - 11
Conrad Schmidtnot measured- - 12
Friedrich von Hellwaldnot measured- - 13
Rudolf Oesernot measured- - 14
Christian Ernst von Bentzel-Sternaunot measured- - 15
Fritz Katernot measured- - 16
Paulus Casselnot measured- - 17
Julius Fauchernot measured- - 18
Julius Leopold Kleinnot measured- - 19
Fedor von Zobeltitznot measured- - 20
Karl Spindlernot measured- - 21
Heinrich Krusenot measured- - 22Richard Grellingnot measured-
- 23
Ludwig Kalischnot measured- - 24
Wilhelm Joachim von Hammersteinnot measured- - 25
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauernot 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.