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Famous after death: 19th century
People whose names were printed far more after they died than while they lived, ranked by the share of all their mentions in print that came after death. Measured in their own language, and counted from five years on, so the obituaries do not count.
- 1
Zuo Zongtang100% - 2
Hong Xiuquan100% - 3
Tan Sitong100% - 4
Lin Tse-hsu100% - 5
Zeng Guofan100%
- 6
Sergey Solovyov100% - 7
Louis Vuitton100% - 8
Marie Bashkirtseva100% - 9
Shoqan Walikhanov100% - 10
Alexander Ulyanov100% - 11
Abraham Goldfaden100% - 12
Mikhail Alekseyev100% - 13
Abay Kunanbaiuly100% - 14
Christian Dietrich Grabbe100% - 15
Vladimir Stasov100% - 16
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky100% - 17
Ivan Vazov100% - 18
Fyodor Tyutchev100% - 19
Nikolai Ge100% - 20
Natalia Pushkina100% - 21
Nikolai Lobachevsky100% - 22
Stepan Makarov100% - 23
Nikolai Rubinstein100% - 24
Pyotr Chaadayev100% - 25
Kondraty Ryleyev100% - 26
Alexander Kovalevsky100% - 27
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows100% - 28
Wilhelm Küchelbecker100% - 29
Wild Bill Hickok100% - 30
Vasily Surikov100% - 31
Pyotr Lavrov100% - 32
Pavel Pestel100% - 33
Ivan Kramskoi100% - 34
Mikhail Vrubel100% - 35
Alexei Khomyakov100% - 36
Eduard Meyer100%
- 37
Aleksey Koltsov100% - 38
Mirza Fatali Akhundov100% - 39
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev100% - 40
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov100% - 41
Gerard Manley Hopkins100% - 42
Carlo Collodi100% - 43
Bahá'u'lláh100% - 44
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer100% - 45
Eugène Atget100% - 46
Henry David Thoreau100% - 47
Emily Dickinson100% - 48
Antoni Gaudí100% - 49
Jenny von Westphalen100% - 50
Christian Daniel Rauch100% - 51
Johnny Appleseed100% - 52
Tristan Corbière100% - 53
Johann Jakob Bachofen100% - 54
Nathan Bedford Forrest100% - 55
John Vianney100% - 56
Ramakrishna100% - 57
George Armstrong Custer100% - 58
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff100% - 59
Aloysius Bertrand100% - 60
Juliette Récamier100% - 61
Gottlieb Daimler99% - 62
Edgar Allan Poe99% - 63
Maurice de Guérin99% - 64
Mary Shelley99% - 65
Anita Garibaldi99% - 66
Kang Youwei99% - 67
Charlotte Brontë99% - 68
Mary Todd Lincoln99% - 69
Carl Zeiss99% - 70
Sholem Aleichem99% - 71
Johns Hopkins99% - 72
Vincent van Gogh99% - 73
Carl Spitzweg99% - 74
Marie d'Agoult99% - 75
Valentín Gómez Farías99% - 76
Moses Hess99% - 77
Konstantin Pobedonostsev99% - 78
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore99% - 79
Miguel Miramón99% - 80
Francis Scott Key99% - 81
Kosta Khetagurov99% - 82
Charles de Foucauld99% - 83
Laura Marx99% - 84
Maria Ulyanova99% - 85
Agustina de Aragón99% - 86
Thérèse of Lisieux99% - 87
Dmitri Mendeleev98% - 88
Vasily Polenov98% - 89
Emperor Meiji98% - 90
Stendhal98% - 91
Friedrich Engels98% - 92
Kliment Timiryazev98% - 93
Honoré de Balzac98% - 94
José de San Martín98% - 95
Italo Svevo98% - 96
Joseph von Eichendorff98% - 97
Yan Fu98% - 98
Karl Marx98% - 99
Rosalía de Castro98% - 100
Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia98%
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.