← Fame through time1750-1759
The 1750s
Whose working lives fell in the 1750s. 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 1750s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Immanuel Kant22 decades - 2
Adam Smith22 decades - 3
Maria Theresa22 decades - 4
Charles III of Spain21 decades - 5
Madame de Pompadour22 decades - 6
Samuel Adams22 decades - 7
Ahmad Shah Durrani4 decades - 8
Pope Pius VI22 decades - 9
Baron Munchausen0 decades - 10
Charles Edward Stuart22 decades - 11
Leopold Mozart20 decades - 12
Horace Walpole22 decades - 13
Joshua Reynolds22 decades - 14
Jean le Rond d'Alembert7 decades - 15
Cao Xueqin10 decades - 16
Mustafa III0 decades - 17
Johann Joachim Winckelmann17 decades - 18
Frederick V of Denmark0 decades
- 19
Gaon of Vilnius13 decades - 20
Hyder Ali22 decades - 21
Giovanni Battista Piranesi9 decades - 22
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gothanot measured- - 23
Hryhorii Skovoroda12 decades - 24
James Wolfe22 decades - 25
Mariana Victoria of Spainnot 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.