← Fame through time1770-1779
The 1770s
Whose working lives fell in the 1770s. 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 1770s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Thomas Jefferson22 decades - 2
John Adams22 decades - 3
Marquis de Sade12 decades - 4
Thomas Paine22 decades - 5
Antoine Lavoisier2 decades - 6
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 7
George III of the United Kingdom0 decades - 8
Jean-Paul Marat19 decades - 9
James Watt22 decades - 10
Abigail Adams16 decades - 11
Toussaint Louverture22 decades - 12
Grigory Potemkin16 decades - 13
William Herschel22 decades - 14
Yemelyan Pugachev18 decades - 15
Madame du Barry22 decades - 16
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitznot measured- - 17
Joseph-Louis Lagrange0 decades - 18
Johann Gottfried Herder18 decades - 19
Edward Gibbon22 decades - 20
Marquis de Condorcet1 decades - 21
Pope Pius VII22 decades - 22
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck2 decades - 23
Frederick William II of Prussianot measured- - 24
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher3 decades - 25
Túpac Amaru II9 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.