← 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- - 26
Maria Josepha of Austria0 decades - 27
Mary Toft1 decades - 28
Pietro Metastasio22 decades - 29
Maurice de Saxenot measured- - 30
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi0 decades - 31
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia15 decades - 32
Anton Wilhelm Amo0 decades - 33
Nicolaus Zinzendorf6 decades - 34
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuisnot measured- - 35
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombalnot measured- - 36
Anna Magdalena Bach10 decades - 37
Christian VI of Denmark0 decades - 38
Tahmasp II0 decades - 39
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin0 decades - 40
Semyon Chelyuskin5 decades - 41
Mastani0 decades - 42
Colin MacLaurin0 decades - 43
Nakamikado0 decades - 44
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléansnot measured- - 45
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer6 decades - 46
James Oglethorpe22 decades - 47
Maurice Quentin de La Tournot measured- - 48
Luigi Vanvitelli22 decades - 49
Giuseppe Guarneri0 decades - 50
Edward Braddock14 decades - 51
George Anson, 1st Baron Ansonnot measured- - 52
Johann Adolph Hasse3 decades - 53
Johann Christoph Gottsched16 decades - 54
Dick Turpin19 decades - 55
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli3 decades - 56
Jean-Étienne Liotard0 decades - 57
Charles Marie de La Condamine0 decades - 58
James Thomson22 decades - 59
John Byng12 decades - 60
Johann Joachim Quantz7 decades - 61
Maria Clementina Sobieska0 decades - 62
Joseph François Dupleix0 decades - 63
Vasily Trediakovsky9 decades - 64
Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld7 decades - 65
Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans0 decades - 66
Gabriel Cramer21 decades - 67
Ashraf Hotakinot measured- - 68
Pietro Locatelli3 decades - 69
Ange-Jacques Gabriel9 decades - 70
Louise Hippolyte I, Princess of Monaconot measured- - 71
Gerard van Swieten9 decades - 72
Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbachnot measured- - 73
Jean-Marie Leclair4 decades - 74
Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 75
Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck13 decades - 76
Clemens August of Bavaria5 decades - 77
Kashibai0 decades - 78
Pierre Bouguer4 decades - 79
Hans Hermann von Katte3 decades - 80
Sadiq Khan Zandnot measured- - 81
Pietro Longhi22 decades - 82
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff5 decades - 83
Armand de Vignerot du Plessisnot measured- - 84
Jean Calas22 decades - 85Khariton Laptev4 decades
- 86
Carl Heinrich Graun8 decades - 87
Giovanni Battista Sammartini4 decades - 88
John Peter Zenger18 decades - 89
Françoise de Graffigny2 decades - 90
Mary Delany0 decades - 91
Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena19 decades - 92
John Bartram22 decades - 93
Jean-Antoine Nollet0 decades - 94
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepasnot measured- - 95
Maria Amalia of Austria0 decades - 96
Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelnot measured- - 97
Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburgnot measured- - 98
Olivier Levasseur14 decades - 99
Aleksei Chirikov6 decades - 100
Ivan Betskoy9 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.