← 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
Fyodor Dostoevsky17 decades - 2
Leo Tolstoy18 decades - 3
Alexander Pushkin21 decades - 4
Anton Chekhov15 decades - 5
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky10 decades - 6
Nikolai Gogol19 decades - 7
Alexander I of Russia21 decades - 8
Dmitri Mendeleev11 decades - 9
Alexander II of Russia17 decades - 10
Nicholas I of Russia19 decades - 11
Mikhail Lermontov15 decades - 12
Alexander III of Russia16 decades - 13
Taras Shevchenko13 decades - 14
Ivan Pavlov16 decades - 15
Peter Kropotkin11 decades - 16
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky5 decades - 17
Ilya Repin10 decades - 18
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov9 decades - 19
Konstantin Stanislavski9 decades - 20
Modest Mussorgsky11 decades - 21
Ivan Turgenev6 decades - 22
Ivan Aivazovsky2 decades - 23
Nikolay Nekrasov13 decades - 24
Fyodor Tyutchev11 decades - 25
Alexander Borodin8 decades - 26
Mikhail Glinka12 decades - 27
Ivan Krylov18 decades - 28
Alexander Griboyedov13 decades - 29
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin10 decades - 30
Viktor Vasnetsov10 decades - 31
Vladimir Vernadsky8 decades - 32
Nikolay Karamzin20 decades - 33
Alexander Ostrovsky18 decades - 34
L. L. Zamenhofnot measured- - 35
Ivan Goncharov17 decades - 36
Georgi Plekhanov11 decades - 37
Nikolay Chernyshevsky11 decades - 38
Sergei Witte9 decades - 39
Vasily Zhukovsky16 decades - 40
Abay Kunanbaiuly8 decades - 41
Nikolai Lobachevsky9 decades - 42
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy16 decades - 43
Ivan Shishkin9 decades - 44
Peter Carl Fabergé3 decades - 45
Pyotr Bagration7 decades - 46
Vladimir Solovyov14 decades - 47
Karl Bryullov11 decades - 48
Vissarion Belinsky15 decades - 49
Aleksei Brusilov3 decades - 50
Arkhip Kuindzhi2 decades - 51
Nikolai Leskov13 decades - 52
Vladimir Dal10 decades - 53
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia20 decades - 54
Nikolai Pirogov15 decades - 55
Vasily Vereshchagin8 decades - 56
Isaac Levitan7 decades - 57
Vasily Surikov8 decades - 58
Olga Constantinovna of Russia16 decades - 59
Alexander Stepanovich Popov15 decades - 60
Mikhail Vrubel9 decades - 61
Nikolay Przhevalsky9 decades - 62
Vladimir Korolenko13 decades - 63
Anton Rubinstein15 decades - 64
Afanasy Fet8 decades - 65
Alexander Ulyanov11 decades - 66
Pavel Nakhimov11 decades - 67
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay5 decades - 68
Ivan Kramskoi11 decades - 69
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen2 decades - 70
Andrey Markov6 decades - 71
Vladimir Bekhterev5 decades - 72
Mily Balakirev9 decades - 73
Ivan Michurin9 decades - 74
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 75
Nikolai Yudenich1 decades - 76
Pavel Milyukov7 decades - 77
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russianot measured- - 78
Pafnuty Chebyshev4 decades - 79
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia5 decades - 80
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia20 decades - 81
Anna Pavlovna of Russia0 decades - 82
Vasily Perov8 decades - 83
Sophia Tolstaya10 decades - 84
Mikhail Skobelev4 decades - 85
César Cui9 decades - 86
Natalia Pushkina9 decades - 87
Sergey Aksakov12 decades - 88
Vsevolod Garshin13 decades - 89
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 90
Konstantin Pobedonostsev9 decades - 91
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia19 decades - 92
Vera Zasulich0 decades - 93
Alexander Gorchakov11 decades - 94
Mikhail Lazarev12 decades - 95
Stepan Makarov8 decades - 96
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia17 decades - 97
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko10 decades - 98
Vasily Klyuchevsky3 decades - 99
Mikhail Nesterov8 decades - 100
Yevgeny Baratynsky6 decades
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.