← 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
Peter the Great21 decades - 2
Catherine the Great22 decades - 3
Leonhard Euler22 decades - 4
Paul I of Russia21 decades - 5
Mikhail Lomonosov19 decades - 6
Elizabeth of Russia20 decades - 7
Alexander Suvorov18 decades - 8
Catherine I of Russia18 decades - 9
Anna of Russia21 decades - 10
Peter II of Russia19 decades - 11
Mikhail Kutuzov8 decades - 12
Grigory Potemkin16 decades - 13
Yemelyan Pugachev18 decades - 14
Ivan VI of Russia0 decades - 15
Stanisław August Poniatowski0 decades - 16
Seraphim of Sarov14 decades - 17
Gavrila Derzhavin17 decades - 18
Abram Petrovich Gannibal7 decades - 19
Gaon of Vilnius13 decades - 20
Alexander Menshikov19 decades - 21
Denis Fonvizin9 decades - 22
Alexander Radishchev16 decades - 23
Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg0 decades - 24
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly0 decades - 25
Hryhorii Skovoroda12 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.