1700–1799
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Luigi Vanvitelli1700–1773 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects22 decades - 2
Nicola Salvi1697–1751 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects18 decades - 3
Giuseppe Piermarini1734–1808 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects22 decades - 4
Alessandro Galilei1691–1737 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects21 decades - 5
Giovanni Battista Nolli1701–1756 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects2 decades - 6
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Ferdinando Fuga1699–1782 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects22 decades - 7
Francesco Piranesi1761–1810 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects17 decades - 8
Giovanni Battista Vaccarini1702–1768 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects0 decades - 9
Rosario Gagliardi1698–1762 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 10
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Francesco Milizia1725–1798 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects22 decades - 11JBJuan Bautista Sachetti1690–1764 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
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Ferdinando Sanfelice1675–1748 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 13
Alessandro Specchi1668–1729 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 14
Antonio Beduzzi1675–1735 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects0 decades - 15
Antonio Canevari1681–1764 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects0 decades - 16
Luigi Cagnola1762–1833 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 17
Gaetano Chiaveri1689–1770 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 18
Giovanni Baratta1670–1747 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 19
Carlo Marchionni1702–1786 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 20
Giuseppe Galli da Bibbiena1696–1756 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 21
Carlo Vanvitelli1739–1821 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 22
Francesco Gallo1672–1750 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 23
Ignazio Bertola1676–1755 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 24
Filippo Barigioni1672–1753 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 25AGAndrea Giganti1731–1787 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
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Filippo Raguzzini1690–1771 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 27DGDonato Giuseppe Frisoni1683–1735 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
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Paolo Posi1708–1776 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 29
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Carlo Francesco Dotti1669–1759 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 30
Antonio Asprucci1723–1808 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 31GBGiovanni Battista Borra1713–1770 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
- 32GSGiuseppe Sardi1680–1753 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
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Giovanni Carlo Galli da Bibbiena1717–1760 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 34
Gabriele Valvassori1683–1761 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 35DFDonato Felice d'Allio1677–1761 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
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Gaspare Paoletti1727–1813 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 37
Giovanni Biagio Amico1684–1754 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured— - 38FRFrancesco Riccati1718–1791 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architectsnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.