← Fame through time1700-1709
The 1700s
Whose working lives fell in the 1700s. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1700s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Peter the Great21 decades - 2
Anne, Queen of Great Britain0 decades - 3
Jonathan Swift22 decades - 4
Guru Gobind Singh9 decades - 5
Augustus II the Strong19 decades - 6
Ahmed III3 decades - 7
Giambattista Vico22 decades - 8
Philippe II, Duke of Orléansnot measured- - 9
Alexander Menshikov19 decades - 10
Johann Bernoulli22 decades - 11
Rob Roy MacGregor1 decades - 12
Joseph Addison22 decades - 13
Tomaso Albinoni8 decades - 14
Frederick IV of Denmark0 decades - 15
Sophia Dorothea of Cellenot measured- - 16
Tsangyang Gyatsonot measured- - 17
Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia18 decades - 18
François Couperin14 decades - 19
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmingtonnot measured- - 20
Abraham de Moivre0 decades - 21
Louis de Montfortnot measured- - 22
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover0 decades - 23
Maria Anna of Neuburg0 decades - 24
Anne Marie d'Orléans0 decades - 25
William Congreve1 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.