← 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
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli3 decades - 2
Andrey Voronikhin6 decades - 3
Matvey Kazakov6 decades - 4
Giacomo Quarenghi14 decades - 5
Alexander Kokorinov0 decades - 6Mikhail Zemtsov3 decades
- 7
Yury Feltennot measured- - 8
Andreyan Zakharov0 decades - 9
Ivan Starov0 decades - 10
Savva Chevakinsky0 decades - 11
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyinot measured- - 12
Dmitry Ukhtomskynot measured- - 13
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurinnot measured- - 14
Karl Blanknot measured- - 15
Ivan Zarudnynot measured- - 16William Hestenot measured-
- 17
Johann Wilhelm Krause0 decades - 18
Franz Ludwig von Cancrinnot measured- - 19
Christoph Haberland0 decades - 20Vasily Neyolovnot measured-
- 21
Andrey Kvasovnot measured- - 22Yvan Korobovnot measured-
- 23
Stepan Kovnirnot measured- - 24
Pyotr Yegorovnot measured- - 25Alexey Vasilyevich Kvasovnot measured-
- 26
Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walthernot 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.