← 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
Anna of Russia21 decades - 3
Peter II of Russia19 decades - 4
Mikhail Kutuzov8 decades - 5
Grigory Potemkin16 decades - 6
Ivan VI of Russia0 decades - 7
Stanisław August Poniatowski0 decades - 8
Alexander Menshikov19 decades - 9
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly0 decades - 10
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov17 decades - 11
Nikita Panin19 decades - 12
Ernst Johann von Biron1 decades - 13
Feodor Rostopchin4 decades - 14
Kirill Razumovsky17 decades - 15
Sergei Saltykov4 decades - 16
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich0 decades - 17
Peter von Biron0 decades - 18
Pavel Tsitsianov0 decades - 19
Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov18 decades - 20
Pyotr Saltykov0 decades - 21
Andrii Rozumovskyinot measured- - 22
Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen0 decades - 23
Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryuminnot measured- - 24
William Fermor0 decades - 25
Andrey Osterman1 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.