← 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 - 26
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany16 decades - 27
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medicinot measured- - 28
Eudoxia Lopukhina0 decades - 29
Sultan Husayn0 decades - 30
Jethro Tull22 decades - 31
Dimitrie Cantemir6 decades - 32
Isaac Watts22 decades - 33
Asaf Jah I of Hyderabadnot measured- - 34
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick0 decades - 35
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester0 decades - 36
Julie d'Aubigny17 decades - 37
Bernard Mandeville6 decades - 38
Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine13 decades - 39
Rajaram I0 decades - 40
Richard Steele22 decades - 41
Alain-René Lesage2 decades - 42
Frederick IV, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 43
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesburynot measured- - 44
Louise Françoise de Bourbon0 decades - 45
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuthnot measured- - 46
Herman Boerhaave4 decades - 47Mir Wais Hotak0 decades
- 48
Turlough O'Carolan0 decades - 49
Marie Anne de Bourbon0 decades - 50
Ludovico Antonio Muratori22 decades - 51
John Toland21 decades - 52
Veer Banda Bairaginot measured- - 53
Mary Astell8 decades - 54
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre0 decades - 55
Kanhoji Angre0 decades - 56
William Whiston20 decades - 57
Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburgnot measured- - 58
Hedvig Sophia of Swedennot measured-
- 59
Colley Cibber22 decades - 60
John Law22 decades - 61
René Duguay-Trouin0 decades - 62
Alessandro Marcello20 decades - 63
Zhang Tingyunot measured- - 64
Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrückennot measured- - 65
Johann Konrad Dippel4 decades - 66
Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadtnot measured- - 67
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmondnot measured- - 68
Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendalnot measured- - 69
Abigail Masham, Baroness Mashamnot measured- - 70
Antonio Caldara13 decades - 71
John Arbuthnot19 decades - 72Jeremiah Clarke3 decades
- 73
Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingennot measured- - 74
Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburgnot measured- - 75
Jacob Bruce14 decades - 76
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt7 decades - 77Stephen Gray11 decades
- 78
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita0 decades - 79
Giovanni Bononcini9 decades - 80
James Louis Sobieskinot measured- - 81
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrownot measured- - 82
Joseph Raphson0 decades - 83Inhyeon0 decades
- 84
Pylyp Orlyk0 decades - 85
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau22 decades - 86
George Farquhar20 decades - 87Maria Margaretha Kirch0 decades
- 88Antonio Lotti20 decades
- 89
İbrahim Müteferrika0 decades - 90
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albansnot measured- - 91
Reinhard Keiser17 decades - 92
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshendnot measured- - 93Johann Christoph Bach IIInot measured-
- 94
Murshid Quli Khan3 decades - 95
Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia0 decades - 96
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria1 decades - 97
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormondenot measured- - 98
Pietro Ottoboni22 decades - 99
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon4 decades - 100
Natalya Alexeevna of Russianot 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.