← 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
Mikhail Lomonosov19 decades - 2
Abram Petrovich Gannibal7 decades - 3
Peter Simon Pallas9 decades - 4
Georg Wilhelm Richmann0 decades - 5
Stepan Krasheninnikov8 decades - 6
Jacob Bruce14 decades - 7
Ewald Georg von Kleist0 decades - 8
Johann Georg Gmelin4 decades - 9
Ivan Lepyokhin4 decades - 10
Gerhard Friedrich Müller6 decades - 11
Joseph Gaertner3 decades - 12
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin0 decades - 13
Ivan Kulibin0 decades - 14
Johann Anton Güldenstädt0 decades - 15
Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter0 decades - 16
Johann Tobias Lowiznot measured- - 17
Vasily Vladimirovich Petrovnot measured- - 18
Andrey Nartovnot measured- - 19
Mikhail Gvozdevnot measured- - 20Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidtnot measured-
- 21
Ivan Kirilovnot measured- - 22
Georg Franz Hoffmann2 decades - 23Joseph Billingsnot measured-
- 24
Georg Wolfgang Krafftnot measured- - 25
Laurentius Blumentrostnot 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.