← 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 - 26
Moses Mendelssohn22 decades - 27
Pasquale Paoli22 decades - 28
Louis Antoine de Bougainville4 decades - 29
Franz Mesmer9 decades - 30
Louis, Dauphin of Francenot measured- - 31
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot2 decades - 32
Warren Hastings22 decades - 33
Erasmus Darwin22 decades - 34
William Cowper22 decades - 35
Taksin6 decades - 36
Frederick North, Lord Northnot measured- - 37
Christoph Martin Wieland22 decades - 38
Arthur Guinness15 decades - 39
Ahmad Shah Bahadur0 decades - 40
Grigory Orlov18 decades - 41
George Mason22 decades - 42
James Hutton22 decades - 43
Ahilyabai Holkar0 decades - 44
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot0 decades - 45
Josiah Wedgwood21 decades
- 46
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howenot measured- - 47
Charles Messier1 decades - 48
Richard Arkwright22 decades - 49
Benjamin Banneker7 decades
- 50
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben5 decades - 51
Chevalier d'Éonnot measured- - 52
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockinghamnot measured- - 53
Pyotr Rumyantsev1 decades - 54
Joseph Wright of Derby3 decades - 55
Robert Adam22 decades - 56
Jean-Baptiste Donatiede Vimeur, comte de Rochambeaunot measured- - 57
John Wilkes22 decades - 58
Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France0 decades - 59
Robert Morris22 decades - 60
Henry Benedict Stuart0 decades - 61
Jean-Baptiste Greuze4 decades - 62
Richard Henry Lee22 decades - 63
Horatio Gates22 decades - 64
François-André Danican Philidor0 decades - 65
Lazzaro Spallanzani22 decades - 66
Princess Isabella of Parmanot measured- - 67
Johann Heinrich Lambert2 decades - 68
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléansnot measured- - 69
Maria Josepha of Bavaria0 decades - 70
Karl Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden0 decades - 71
Ludovico Manin12 decades - 72
Johann Georg Hamann21 decades - 73
Momozononot measured- - 74
Johann Reinhold Forster14 decades - 75
Giuseppe Parini22 decades - 76
John Hunter22 decades - 77
Anton Raphael Mengs18 decades - 78
Jacob Frank4 decades - 79
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinianot measured- - 80
Charles Alexandre de Calonne0 decades - 81
Nicolas-Edme Rétifnot measured- - 82
Crown Prince Sado0 decades - 83
Rani Velu Nachiyarnot measured- - 84
Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelnot measured- - 85
Henry Clinton22 decades - 86
Prince Heinrich of Prussianot measured- - 87
Joseph Black22 decades - 88
William Hamilton22 decades - 89
Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg22 decades - 90
Matthew Boulton22 decades - 91
Anna Göldi2 decades - 92
Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavarianot measured- - 93
Cardinal de Rohannot measured- - 94
Marie Adélaïde of France12 decades - 95
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach6 decades - 96
Princess Victoire of France13 decades - 97
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova4 decades - 98
Philip Schuyler21 decades - 99
Wolfgang von Kempelen3 decades - 100
George Romney20 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.