← Fame through time1730-1739
The 1730s
Whose working lives fell in the 1730s. 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 1730s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Peter II of Russia19 decades - 2
John Wesley22 decades - 3
Anne Bonny2 decades - 4
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhabnot measured- - 5
William Hogarth22 decades - 6
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 7
Daniel Bernoulli22 decades - 8
Marie Leszczyńska13 decades - 9
Anders Celsius0 decades - 10
Augustus III of Poland22 decades - 11
Baji Rao I0 decades - 12
Abram Petrovich Gannibal7 decades - 13
Canaletto22 decades - 14
Baal Shem Tov18 decades - 15
Antoine François Prévost12 decades - 16
Mahmud I0 decades - 17
Alphonsus Liguori18 decades - 18
Muhammad Shah16 decades - 19
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo21 decades - 20
Thomas Bayes2 decades - 21
François Boucher21 decades - 22
Osman III0 decades - 23
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi8 decades - 24
Alamgir II0 decades - 25
Charles Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorpnot 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.