← Fame through time1760-1769
The 1760s
Whose working lives fell in the 1760s. 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 1760s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
George Washington22 decades - 2
Catherine the Great22 decades - 3
James Cook22 decades - 4
Peter III of Russia21 decades - 5
Joseph Haydn22 decades - 6
Alexander Suvorov18 decades - 7
Giacomo Casanova20 decades - 8
Edmund Burke22 decades - 9
Martha Washington21 decades - 10
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 decades - 11
Ivan VI of Russia0 decades - 12
Robert Clive22 decades - 13
Joseph Priestley22 decades - 14
Stanisław August Poniatowski0 decades - 15
Pierre Beaumarchaisnot measured- - 16
Henry Cavendish22 decades - 17
Thomas Gainsborough18 decades - 18
Daniel Boone22 decades - 19
Abdul Hamid I0 decades - 20
Jean-Honoré Fragonard6 decades - 21
Jacques Necker15 decades - 22
Shah Alam II4 decades - 23
Maria I of Portugal0 decades - 24
John Newton22 decades - 25
Oliver Goldsmith22 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.