← 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- - 26
Maria Amalia of Saxony20 decades - 27
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria18 decades - 28
Prithvi Narayan Shah4 decades - 29
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshirenot measured- - 30
Robert-François Damiens7 decades - 31
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock20 decades - 32
William Blackstone22 decades - 33
Roger Sherman22 decades - 34
Thomas Gray22 decades - 35
Siraj ud-Daulah0 decades - 36
David Garrick22 decades - 37
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland0 decades - 38
Filippo I, Duke of Parmanot measured- - 39
Peter III of Portugal0 decades - 40
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwichnot measured- - 41
Maria Gaetana Agnesi22 decades - 42
John Burgoyne22 decades - 43
Louise Élisabeth of France0 decades - 44
Lancelot Brown2 decades - 45
Tobias Smollett22 decades - 46
Anna Maria Mozart0 decades - 47
Claude Adrien Helvétius0 decades - 48
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz0 decades - 49
Friedrich Christian I, Elector of Saxonynot measured- - 50
Thomas Chippendale11 decades - 51
Heraclius II of Georgia0 decades - 52
Louise of Great Britain0 decades - 53
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevernnot measured- - 54
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia0 decades - 55
George Stubbs13 decades - 56
Sakuramachinot measured- - 57
Bernardo Bellotto13 decades - 58
Prince Augustus William of Prussia8 decades - 59
Balaji Baji Rao0 decades - 60
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul0 decades - 61
Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadtnot measured- - 62
Alexander Sumarokov19 decades - 63
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert22 decades - 64
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherstnot measured- - 65
Henriette of France22 decades - 66
Pontiac17 decades - 67
Nikita Panin19 decades - 68
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben1 decades - 69John Michell19 decades
- 70
John Smeaton21 decades - 71
Thomas Gagenot measured- - 72
James Lind9 decades - 73
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria0 decades - 74
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbesnot measured- - 75
Princess Mary of Great Britainnot measured- - 76
Adam Ferguson22 decades - 77
Antonio de Ulloa22 decades - 78
Flora MacDonald12 decades - 79
James Hargreaves17 decades - 80
Friedrich II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel17 decades - 81
François Joseph Paul de Grassenot measured- - 82
Ernest Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeldnot measured- - 83
Mir Taqi Mir0 decades - 84
Gerard Majella9 decades - 85
Ernst Gideon von Laudon0 decades - 86
Johann Stamitz11 decades - 87
Louise Henriette de Bourbon0 decades - 88
Gaspar de Portolà8 decades - 89
Carlo Gozzi22 decades - 90
Suzuki Harunobu0 decades - 91
Yosa Buson0 decades - 92
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia0 decades - 93
John Byron22 decades - 94
Xenia of Saint Petersburgnot measured- - 95
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hoodnot measured- - 96
Alexander Roslin0 decades - 97
Carl Friedrich Abel1 decades - 98
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken0 decades - 99
Charles Bonnet22 decades - 100
Jean-François Marmontel6 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.