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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.

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FieldAllPoliticiansHistorical FiguresWritersScientistsMusiciansArtistsAcademicsArchitectsDoctorsReligious Figures
  1. 1Antonio CanovaAntonio Canova1757–1822 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades
  2. 2CanalettoCanaletto1697–1768 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades
  3. 3Giovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista Tiepolo1696–1770 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists21 decades
  4. 4Giovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista Piranesi1720–1778 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists9 decades
  5. 5Bernardo BellottoBernardo Bellotto1722–1780 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists13 decades
  6. 6Giovanni Paolo PaniniGiovanni Paolo Panini1691–1765 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists7 decades
  7. 7Pompeo BatoniPompeo Batoni1708–1787 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists20 decades
  8. 8GCGiuseppe Castiglione1688–1766 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists17 decades
  9. 9Giuseppe SanmartinoGiuseppe Sanmartino1720–1793 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists6 decades
  10. 10Corrado GiaquintoCorrado Giaquinto1703–1766 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists0 decades
  11. 11Carlo Bartolomeo RastrelliCarlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli1666–1744 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists0 decades
  12. 12Anton von MaronAnton von Maron1733–1808 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  13. 13Antonio Galli da BibienaAntonio Galli da Bibiena1697–1774 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  14. 14Raffaello Sanzio MorghenRaffaello Sanzio Morghen1758–1833 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  15. 15Giovanni Domenico FerrettiGiovanni Domenico Ferretti1692–1768 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  16. 16Bernardo De DominiciBernardo De Dominici1683–1759 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  17. 17Giovanni Battista LusieriGiovanni Battista Lusieri1755–1821 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  18. 18LVLuigi Valadier1726–1785 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  19. 19Pietro BardellinoPietro Bardellino1728–1806 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  20. 20Benigno BossiBenigno Bossi1727–1792 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  21. 21Lucia Casalini TorelliLucia Casalini Torelli1677–1762 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  22. 22Francesco ManciniFrancesco Mancini1679–1758 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  23. 23Andrea ProcacciniAndrea Procaccini1671–1734 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  24. 24Carlo Galli da BibienaCarlo Galli da Bibiena1728–1787 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot measured—
  25. 25FPFrancesco Pannini1745–1812 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artistsnot 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.