1700–1799
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden1688–1741 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 2
Alexander Roslin1718–1793 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 3
Magnus Stenbock1665–1717 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 4
Eva Ekeblad1724–1786 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 5
Johan Tobias Sergel1740–1814 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 6
Martin van Meytens1695–1770 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 7
Hedvig Taube1714–1744 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 8
Gustaf Lundberg1695–1786 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 9
Carl Frederik von Breda1759–1818 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 10
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller1751–1811 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 11
Carl Gustaf Pilo1711–1793 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades - 12
Ulrika Pasch1734–1796 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 13
Georg Desmarées1697–1776 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 14
Pehr Hilleström1732–1816 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artists0 decades
- 15
Elias Martin1739–1818 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 16
Lorens Pasch the Younger1733–1805 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 17
Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl1666–1729 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 18
Peter Adolf Hall1739–1793 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 19
Benjamin Patersen1748–1815 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 20
Ulla Tessin1711–1768 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 21
Per Krafft the Elder1724–1793 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 22
Gustavus Hesselius1682–1755 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 23
Johan Henrik Scheffel1690–1781 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 24
Georg Engelhard Schröder1684–1750 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 25
Johan Pasch1706–1769 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 26
Hedvig Catharina Lillie1695–1745 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 27
Olof Arenius1700–1766 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 28
Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque1721–1778 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 29
Niclas Lafrensen1737–1807 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 30
Georg Haupt1741–1784 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 31
Louis Masreliez1748–1810 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 32
Christian Ackermann1670–1710 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 33
Christina Charlotta Cederström1760–1832 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 34
Anna Maria Thelott1683–1710 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 35MAMargareta Alströmer1763–1816 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured—
- 36UAUlla Adlerfelt1736–1765 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured—
- 37
Lorens Pasch the Elder1702–1766 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 38
Elisabeth Palm1756–1789 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 39AMAnna Maria Hilfeling1713–1783 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured—
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Johan Hörner1711–1763 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 41
Johan Edvard Mandelberg1730–1786 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 42
Johan Philip Korn1728–1796 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured— - 43
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Gustaf Adolf Hjärne1715–1805 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Artistsnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.