← 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 English books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
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Jesus94 - 2
Homer15 - 3
Cicero13 - 4
Augustus13 - 5
Plato10 - 6
Virgil9.6 - 7
Aristotle9.4 - 8
Socrates6.4 - 9
Herodotus6.2 - 10
Plutarch5.6 - 11
Ovid4.2 - 12
Strabo4.1 - 13
Charlemagne3.9 - 14
Demosthenes3.8 - 15
Lord Byron3.6 - 16
Livy3.4 - 17
Origen3.1 - 18
Cleopatra3.0 - 19
Xenophon3.0 - 20
Walter Scott3.0 - 21
Tertullian2.7 - 22
James II, Count of Urgell2.6 - 23
Robert Peel2.6 - 24
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor2.6 - 25
Pericles2.5
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Claude Monet14 decades - 2
Paul Gauguin13 decades - 3
Paul Cézanne12 decades - 4
Pierre-Auguste Renoir12 decades - 5
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec10 decades - 6
Auguste Rodin14 decades - 7
Édouard Manet15 decades - 8
Edgar Degas11 decades - 9
Eugène Delacroix20 decades - 10
Gustave Courbet16 decades - 11
Gustave Doré17 decades - 12
Camille Pissarro13 decades - 13
Georges Seurat11 decades - 14
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresnot measured- - 15
Berthe Morisot13 decades - 16
Henri Rousseau12 decades - 17
Camille Claudel11 decades - 18
William-Adolphe Bouguereau5 decades - 19
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi4 decades - 20
Édouard-Henri Avril5 decades - 21
Théodore Géricault7 decades - 22
Gustave Caillebotte5 decades - 23
Nadarnot measured- - 24
Jean-Léon Gérôme4 decades - 25
Jean-François Millet13 decades - 26
Rosa Bonheur18 decades - 27
Odilon Redon14 decades - 28
Alfred Sisley9 decades - 29
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot7 decades - 30
Gustave Moreau16 decades - 31
Honoré Daumier13 decades - 32
Paul Signac13 decades - 33
Alexandre Cabanel6 decades - 34
James Tissot14 decades - 35
Frédéric Bazille9 decades - 36
Eugène Boudin12 decades - 37
Konstantin Korovin9 decades - 38
Henri Fantin-Latour4 decades - 39
Aristide Maillol11 decades - 40
Horace Vernet22 decades - 41
Paul Delaroche19 decades - 42
Marie Bashkirtseva14 decades - 43
Antoine Bourdelle10 decades - 44
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes3 decades - 45
Julie Clary4 decades - 46
Antoine-Jean Gros1 decades - 47
François Gérard19 decades - 48
Théodore Rousseau17 decades - 49
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier4 decades - 50
Charles-François Daubigny1 decades - 51
Paul Sérusier9 decades - 52
Léon Bonnat14 decades - 53
Anne-Louis Girodet3 decades - 54
Louise Abbéma2 decades - 55
Thomas Couture15 decades - 56
Jules Bastien-Lepage4 decades - 57
Jules Breton16 decades - 58
Séraphine Louis1 decades - 59
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux5 decades - 60
Émile Friant0 decades - 61
Mathilde Bonaparte1 decades - 62
Henri-Edmond Cross2 decades - 63
Armand Guillaumin5 decades - 64
Jules Lefebvre15 decades - 65
Eugène Atget5 decades - 66
Théodore Chassériau14 decades - 67
Eva Gonzalès6 decades - 68
Anna Boch4 decades - 69
Ary Scheffer19 decades - 70
Eugène Fromentin16 decades - 71
Carolus-Duran14 decades - 72
Maximilien Luce12 decades - 73
Jean Béraud14 decades - 74
Marie Bracquemond0 decades - 75
Pierre-Paul Émile Roux7 decades - 76
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin2 decades - 77
Jules Chéret14 decades - 78
Jean-Paul Laurens15 decades - 79
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville0 decades - 80
Achille Devéria19 decades - 81
Sophie Gengembre Andersonnot measured- - 82
Antoine-Louis Barye2 decades - 83
David d'Angers19 decades - 84
Eugène Carrière13 decades - 85
Victorine Meurent3 decades - 86
Léon Cogniet19 decades - 87
Jean-Jacques Henner5 decades - 88
Fernand Cormon2 decades - 89
François Rude14 decades - 90
Pierre Auguste Cotnot measured- - 91
Princess Marie of Francenot measured- - 92
Princess Adélaïde of Orléansnot measured- - 93
Eugène Grasset11 decades - 94
Marie-Guillemine Benoist0 decades - 95
Martin van Maëlenot measured- - 96
Charlotte Napoléone Bonapartenot measured- - 97
Jules Dalou6 decades - 98
Marie-Denise Villersnot measured- - 99
Louis Majorelle4 decades - 100
Édouard Detaille5 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.