← 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 - 26
Patrick Henry22 decades - 27
Benedict Arnold22 decades - 28
Elbridge Gerry22 decades - 29
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar0 decades - 30
John Hancock22 decades - 31
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallisnot measured- - 32
Paul Revere21 decades - 33
Gavrila Derzhavin17 decades - 34
Mayer Amschel Rothschild4 decades - 35
Phutthayotfa Chulalok0 decades - 36
Cesare Beccaria22 decades - 37
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérousenot measured- - 38
Johann Christian Bach12 decades - 39
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos2 decades - 40
Luigi Galvani22 decades - 41
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb0 decades - 42
James Boswell22 decades - 43
Angelica Kauffman18 decades - 44
Caroline Matilda of Great Britainnot measured- - 45
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg17 decades - 46
Alessandro Cagliostro22 decades - 47
Joseph Banks22 decades - 48
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin0 decades - 49
Henry Fuseli10 decades - 50
Luigi Boccherini13 decades - 51
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portlandnot measured- - 52
Nathanael Greene17 decades - 53
Arthur Phillip11 decades - 54
Johann Friedrich Struensee5 decades - 55
Carl Wilhelm Scheele8 decades - 56
Jeanne Baret0 decades - 57
Yekaterina Dashkova1 decades - 58
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen22 decades - 59
Casimir Pulaski9 decades - 60
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier0 decades - 61
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick22 decades - 62
Nathan Hale20 decades - 63
Go-Sakuramachi0 decades - 64
Ethan Allen22 decades - 65
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov17 decades - 66
Peter Simon Pallas9 decades - 67
Charles-Henri Sanson1 decades - 68
Charles François Dumouriez0 decades - 69
Thomas Chatterton22 decades - 70
Princess Augusta of Great Britain0 decades - 71
Jean Sylvain Bailly0 decades - 72
Go-Momozono0 decades - 73
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburnenot measured- - 74
Matthias Claudius22 decades - 75
Charles Carroll of Carrollton20 decades - 76
Michael Haydn22 decades - 77
Lizzie Velasquez0 decades - 78
John Singleton Copley21 decades - 79
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi22 decades - 80
John Rutledge22 decades - 81
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Graftonnot measured- - 82
Benjamin West22 decades - 83
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos22 decades - 84
Nicolas Chamfortnot measured- - 85
François Christophe de Kellermann0 decades - 86
James Macpherson22 decades - 87
Johann Kaspar Lavater17 decades - 88
Giovanni Paisiello22 decades - 89
Joseph Brant19 decades - 90
James Wilson22 decades - 91
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condénot measured- - 92
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierrenot measured- - 93
Martin Heinrich Klaproth7 decades - 94
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelnot measured- - 95
William I, Elector of Hessenot measured- - 96
Natalia Alexeievna of Russianot measured- - 97
Charles Willson Peale13 decades - 98
Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburghnot measured- - 99
William Paley20 decades - 100
Karl II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitznot 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.