← 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
Catherine the Great22 decades - 3
Leonhard Euler22 decades - 4
Paul I of Russia21 decades - 5
Mikhail Lomonosov19 decades - 6
Elizabeth of Russia20 decades - 7
Alexander Suvorov18 decades - 8
Catherine I of Russia18 decades - 9
Anna of Russia21 decades - 10
Peter II of Russia19 decades - 11
Mikhail Kutuzov8 decades - 12
Grigory Potemkin16 decades - 13
Yemelyan Pugachev18 decades - 14
Ivan VI of Russia0 decades - 15
Stanisław August Poniatowski0 decades - 16
Seraphim of Sarov14 decades - 17
Gavrila Derzhavin17 decades - 18
Abram Petrovich Gannibal7 decades - 19
Gaon of Vilnius13 decades - 20
Alexander Menshikov19 decades - 21
Denis Fonvizin9 decades - 22
Alexander Radishchev16 decades - 23
Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg0 decades - 24
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly0 decades - 25
Hryhorii Skovoroda12 decades - 26
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russianot measured- - 27
Grigory Orlov18 decades - 28
Yekaterina Dashkova1 decades - 29
Pyotr Rumyantsev1 decades - 30
Vasily Tatishchev16 decades - 31
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov17 decades - 32
Peter Simon Pallas9 decades - 33
Eudoxia Lopukhina0 decades - 34
Dimitrie Cantemir6 decades - 35
Semyon Chelyuskin5 decades - 36
Fyodor Ushakov0 decades - 37
Georg Wilhelm Steller3 decades - 38
Dmytro Bortnianskyi3 decades - 39
Christian Goldbach0 decades - 40
Nikolai Rezanov5 decades - 41
Alexander Sumarokov19 decades - 42
Nikita Panin19 decades - 43
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova4 decades - 44
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli3 decades - 45
Jan Potocki4 decades - 46
Antiochus Kantemir17 decades - 47
Salawat Yulayevnot measured- - 48
Ernst Johann von Biron1 decades - 49
Duke Ludwig of Württemberg19 decades - 50
Alexander Baranov8 decades - 51
Shneur Zalman of Liadi18 decades - 52
Ernst Gideon von Laudon0 decades - 53
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov19 decades - 54
Nikolay Rumyantsev14 decades - 55
Vasily Trediakovsky9 decades - 56
Vladimir Borovikovsky4 decades - 57
Xenia of Saint Petersburgnot measured- - 58
Matvey Ivanovich Platov8 decades - 59
Dmitry Levitzky4 decades - 60
Grigory Shelikhovnot measured- - 61
Georg Wilhelm Richmann0 decades - 62
Stepan Krasheninnikov8 decades - 63
Andrey Voronikhin6 decades - 64
Herman of Alaska0 decades - 65
Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck13 decades - 66
Izabela Czartoryska0 decades - 67
Feodor Rostopchin4 decades - 68
Kirill Razumovsky17 decades - 69
Sergei Saltykov4 decades - 70Khariton Laptev4 decades
- 71
Alexey Razumovsky0 decades - 72
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich0 decades - 73
Nicholas Repnin11 decades - 74
Jacob Bruce14 decades - 75
Salomon Maimon22 decades - 76
Peter von Biron0 decades - 77
Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov8 decades - 78
Vasily Chichagov0 decades - 79
Tikhon of Zadonsk16 decades - 80
Aleksei Chirikov6 decades - 81
Ivan Betskoy9 decades - 82
Matvey Kazakov6 decades - 83
Mikhail Kheraskov1 decades - 84
Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russianot measured- - 85
Giacomo Quarenghi14 decades - 86
Marcello Bacciarelli3 decades - 87
Fyodor Rokotov3 decades - 88
Mikhail Kamensky2 decades - 89
Alexander Shishkov18 decades - 90
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russianot measured- - 91
Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoevedennot measured- - 92
Pavel Tsitsianov0 decades - 93
Ivan Dmitriev19 decades - 94
Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov18 decades - 95Yakov Sannikov3 decades
- 96
Princess Tarakanoff0 decades - 97
Pyotr Saltykov0 decades - 98
Fyodor Volkov12 decades - 99
Andrii Rozumovskyinot measured- - 100
Ivan Argunov3 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.