← 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
Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden0 decades - 2
Alexander Roslin0 decades - 3
Magnus Stenbock0 decades - 4
Eva Ekeblad0 decades - 5
Martin van Meytens0 decades - 6
Johan Tobias Sergel0 decades - 7
Gustaf Lundberg0 decades - 8
Carl Frederik von Breda0 decades - 9
Carl Gustaf Pilo0 decades - 10
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller0 decades - 11
Hedvig Taube0 decades - 12
Pehr Hilleström0 decades
- 13
Ulrika Paschnot measured- - 14
Georg Desmaréesnot measured- - 15
Anna Maria Ehrenstrahlnot measured- - 16
Lorens Pasch the Youngernot measured- - 17
Ulla Tessinnot measured- - 18
Elias Martinnot measured- - 19
Peter Adolf Hallnot measured- - 20
Gustavus Hesseliusnot measured- - 21
Per Krafft the Eldernot measured- - 22
Olof Areniusnot measured- - 23
Benjamin Patersennot measured- - 24
Johan Henrik Scheffelnot measured- - 25
Georg Engelhard Schrödernot 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.