← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. 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 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alessandro Cagliostro22 decades - 2
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin0 decades - 3
Charles-Henri Sanson1 decades - 4
Philippe Pinel11 decades - 5
Julien Offray de La Mettrie2 decades - 6
Claude Louis Berthollet1 decades - 7
Franz Joseph Gall2 decades - 8
Antoine Louis17 decades - 9
Pierre Fauchard2 decades - 10
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart0 decades - 11
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton0 decades - 12
Johann Hermann4 decades - 13
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr1 decades - 14
Pierre-Joseph Desault0 decades - 15
Pierre-François Percy0 decades - 16
François Gigot de la Peyronienot measured- - 17
Jean-Baptiste Dominique Ruscanot measured- - 18
Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységurnot measured- - 19
Jean Louis Petit15 decades - 20
Paul Joseph Barthez0 decades - 21
François Chopartnot measured- - 22
Philippe-Jean Pelletannot measured- - 23Jean-Baptiste Pussinnot measured-
- 24
Jean-Louis Baudelocquenot measured- - 25
Antoine Duboisnot 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.