← 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
Leonhard Euler22 decades - 2
Hryhorii Skovoroda12 decades - 3
Dimitrie Cantemir6 decades - 4
Christian Goldbach0 decades - 5
Antiochus Kantemir17 decades - 6
Shneur Zalman of Liadi18 decades - 7
Salomon Maimon22 decades - 8
Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov8 decades - 9
Franz Aepinus0 decades - 10Chaim of Vałožynnot measured-
- 11
Jan Śniadeckinot measured- - 12
Leonty Magnitsky6 decades - 13
Jakob II Bernoullinot measured- - 14
Stepan Rumovsky5 decades - 15
George (Konissky)not measured- - 16
Marcin Odlanicki Poczobuttnot measured- - 17
Pyotr Yeropkinnot measured- - 18
Petr Ivanovich Rychkovnot measured- - 19
Johann Heinrich Abicht0 decades - 20
Georg Bernhard Bilfingernot measured- - 21
Alexey Oleninnot measured- - 22
Johann Christoph Brotze0 decades - 23
Johann Gottlob Lehmann0 decades - 24
Otto Wilhelm Masingnot measured- - 25Semyon Desnitsky1 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.