← 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
Gavrila Derzhavin17 decades - 2
Denis Fonvizin9 decades - 3
Alexander Radishchev16 decades - 4
Yekaterina Dashkova1 decades - 5
Alexander Sumarokov19 decades - 6
Jan Potocki4 decades - 7
Salawat Yulayevnot measured- - 8
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov19 decades - 9
Nikolay Rumyantsev14 decades - 10
Vasily Trediakovsky9 decades - 11
Izabela Czartoryska0 decades - 12
Nicholas Repnin11 decades - 13
Mikhail Kheraskov1 decades - 14
Alexander Shishkov18 decades - 15
Ivan Dmitriev19 decades - 16
Aleksei Musin-Pushkin3 decades - 17
Vakhushti of Kartli7 decades - 18
Mikhail Shcherbatov3 decades - 19
Peter Shafirov14 decades - 20
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Eldernot measured- - 21
Boris Kurakin6 decades - 22
Nikolay Novikovnot measured- - 23
Stanisław Kostka Potocki0 decades - 24
Vasily Kapnist5 decades - 25
Wojciech Bogusławski0 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.