← Fame through time1790-1799
The 1790s
Whose working lives fell in the 1790s. 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 1790s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart21 decades - 2
Marie Antoinette22 decades - 3
Maximilien Robespierre14 decades - 4
Alexander Hamilton22 decades - 5
William Blake22 decades - 6
James Monroe22 decades - 7
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson22 decades - 8
Friedrich Schiller22 decades - 9
Mary Wollstonecraft21 decades - 10
Robert Burns22 decades - 11
Hokusai14 decades - 12
Charles X of France22 decades - 13
Aaron Burr22 decades - 14
Joséphine de Beauharnais17 decades - 15
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayettenot measured- - 16
Louis XVIII of France22 decades - 17
William Pitt the Younger3 decades - 18
Georges Danton0 decades - 19
Pope Leo XII20 decades - 20
George IV of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 21
William Wilberforce22 decades - 22
Jean-Jacques Dessalines8 decades - 23
Charlotte Corday22 decades - 24
Johann Gottlieb Fichte22 decades - 25
Charles XIV John of Swedennot measured- - 26
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1 decades - 27
Louis Antoine de Saint-Justnot measured- - 28
Joseph Fouché10 decades - 29
William Godwin16 decades - 30
John Marshall22 decades - 31
Selim III18 decades - 32
Louis XVII of France22 decades - 33
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria8 decades - 34
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Greynot measured- - 35
John Jacob Astor I0 decades - 36
Henri de Saint-Simonnot measured- - 37
Marie Tussaud0 decades - 38
Antonio Canova22 decades - 39
George Vancouver14 decades - 40
Samuel Hahnemann20 decades - 41
Spencer Perceval22 decades - 42
Jiaqing Emperornot measured- - 43
Jean Paul22 decades - 44
Camille Desmoulins22 decades - 45
José Gervasio Artigas15 decades - 46
Ann Radcliffe13 decades - 47
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle20 decades - 48
André Masséna2 decades - 49
Noah Webster22 decades - 50
Constanze Mozart6 decades - 51
François-Noël Babeuf21 decades - 52
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin0 decades - 53
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albanynot measured- - 54
Paul Barras6 decades - 55
Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg0 decades - 56
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly0 decades - 57
William Carey22 decades - 58
Jacques Hébert0 decades - 59
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshirenot measured- - 60
Akbar II0 decades - 61
Pope Pius VIII1 decades - 62
Józef Poniatowski0 decades - 63
André Chénier22 decades - 64
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas0 decades - 65
Thomas Telford22 decades - 66
August von Kotzebue22 decades - 67
Jean Victor Marie Moreaunot measured- - 68
Fletcher Christian17 decades - 69
Wolfe Tone22 decades - 70
Alexandre de Beauharnais22 decades - 71
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesleynot measured- - 72
Gia Long7 decades - 73
Gerhard von Scharnhorst5 decades - 74
Luigi Cherubini2 decades - 75
Albert Gallatin7 decades - 76
Henry Lee III0 decades - 77
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan0 decades - 78
Ernst Chladni5 decades - 79
James Parkinson17 decades - 80
Tarrare4 decades - 81
Axel von Fersen the Younger12 decades - 82
John Trumbull22 decades - 83
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau0 decades - 84
Gilbert Stuart22 decades - 85
Sarah Siddons15 decades - 86
Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinianot measured- - 87
Lachlan Macquarie4 decades - 88
Jan Henryk Dąbrowski0 decades - 89
Pierre-Charles Villeneuvenot measured- - 90
Sheikh Mansur2 decades - 91
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton0 decades - 92
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenvillenot measured- - 93
Marie Clotilde of France13 decades - 94
William Beckford22 decades - 95
Johann Peter Hebel16 decades - 96
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorfnot measured- - 97
Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisiernot measured- - 98
Lazare Hoche19 decades - 99
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 100
Georges Couthon3 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.