215,950 profiles ranked

← 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. 1Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla1753-1811 · Spain · Religious Figures21 decades
  2. 2Junípero Serra1713-1784 · Spain · Religious Figures18 decades
  3. 3Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont1749-1815 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  4. 4Bernard of Hoyos1711-1735 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  5. 5Antonio Caballero y Góngora1723-1796 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  6. 6Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta1729-1800 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  7. 7Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta1682-1747 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  8. 8Buenaventura de Córdoba Espínola de la Cerda1724-1777 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  9. 9Cristóbal Bencomo y Rodríguez1758-1835 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  10. 10Antonio Despuig y Dameto1745-1813 · Spain · Religious Figures8 decades
  11. 11Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero1681-1760 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  12. 12Lluís Jaume Vallespir1740-1775 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  13. 13José Solís Folch de Cardona1716-1770 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  14. 14Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra1708-1764 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  15. 15Francisco Antonio Javier de Gardoqui Arriquíbar1747-1820 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  16. 16Ignazio Clemente Delgado1762-1838 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Francis Serrano1695-1748 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  18. 18Alvaro Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor1671-1761 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  19. 19Francis Diaz1713-1748 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  20. 20Manuel Quintano Bonifaz1699-1774 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  21. 21Baltasar Jaime Martínez de Compañón1737-1797 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  22. 22Francisco Javier Delgado Venegas1714-1781 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  23. 23Felipe Beltrán Serrano1704-1783 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  24. 24Ramon Strauch i Vidal1760-1823 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  25. 25Francisco de Solís Folch de Cardona1713-1775 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  26. 26Pedro Cortés y Larraz1712-1787 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  27. 27Juan Alcober1694-1748 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  28. 28Francisco Antonio Cebrián Valdá1734-1820 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  29. 29Ramón José de Arce1755-1842 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  30. 30Dionisio Bardaxí y Azara1760-1826 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  31. 31Andrés de Orbe y Larreategui1672-1740 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  32. 32Joaquín Royo Pérez1691-1748 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  33. 33Jacinto Castañeda1743-1773 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  34. 34Agustín Rubin de Ceballos1724-1793 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  35. 35Francisco Javier Mier Campillo1748-1818 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  36. 36Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui1698-1774 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  37. 37Antonio Bergosa y Jordán1748-1819 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  38. 38Juan José Díaz de Espada1756-1832 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot 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.