← 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
Vladimir Vernadsky8 decades - 2
Georgi Plekhanov11 decades - 3
Nikolai Lobachevsky9 decades - 4
Vladimir Solovyov14 decades - 5
Vissarion Belinsky15 decades - 6
Vladimir Dal10 decades - 7
Andrey Markov6 decades - 8
Pafnuty Chebyshev4 decades - 9
Konstantin Pobedonostsev9 decades - 10
Nikolay Dobrolyubov14 decades - 11
Alexander Afanasyev5 decades - 12
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov12 decades - 13
Pyotr Chaadayev10 decades - 14
Aleksandr Lyapunov3 decades - 15
Shoqan Walikhanov7 decades - 16
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov10 decades - 17
Nikolai Marr0 decades - 18
Vasily Rozanov9 decades - 19
Alexei Khomyakov9 decades - 20
Nikolay Danilevsky4 decades - 21
Nicholas of Japan3 decades - 22
Konstantin Leontiev17 decades - 23
Mykhailo Drahomanov1 decades - 24
Boris Chicherinnot measured- - 25
Ivan Kireyevskynot 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.