← Fame through time1720-1729
The 1720s
Whose working lives fell in the 1720s. 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 1720s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Johann Sebastian Bach22 decades - 2
Voltaire22 decades - 3
George Frideric Handel21 decades - 4
Montesquieu22 decades - 5
Anna of Russia21 decades - 6
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 7
Nader Shah4 decades - 8
Alexander Pope22 decades - 9
Emanuel Swedenborg0 decades
- 10
Louis I of Spain4 decades - 11
George Berkeley8 decades - 12
Frederick William I of Prussianot measured- - 13
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit1 decades - 14
James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Walesnot measured- - 15
Pierre de Marivaux22 decades - 16
Domenico Scarlatti17 decades - 17
Pope Clement XIII21 decades - 18
Elisabeth Farnese22 decades - 19
John Harrison22 decades - 20
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russianot measured- - 21
Mary Wortley Montagu22 decades - 22
John V of Portugal0 decades - 23
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover0 decades - 24
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tynenot measured- - 25
Samuel Richardson22 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.