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← 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. 1Pope Leo XII1760-1829 · Italy · Religious Figures20 decades
  2. 2Pope Pius VI1717-1799 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Pope Pius VII1742-1823 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  4. 4Pope Benedict XIV1675-1758 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  5. 5Pope Clement XIV1705-1774 · Italy · Religious Figures20 decades
  6. 6Pope Clement XIII1693-1769 · Italy · Religious Figures21 decades
  7. 7Alphonsus Liguori1696-1787 · Italy · Religious Figures18 decades
  8. 8Pope Pius VIII1761-1830 · Italy · Religious Figures1 decades
  9. 9Henry Benedict Stuart1725-1807 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Antonio Francesco Gori1691-1757 · Italy · Religious Figuresnot 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.