← 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
Selim III18 decades - 2
Ahmed III3 decades - 3
Abdul Hamid I0 decades - 4
Mahmud I0 decades - 5
Mustafa III0 decades - 6
Osman III0 decades - 7
Ali Pasha of Ioannina0 decades - 8
Rigas Velestinlis19 decades - 9
Nakşidil Sultannot measured- - 10
Şahin Giray0 decades - 11
Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinoplenot measured- - 12
Paisius of Hilendarnot measured- - 13
Jezzar Pasha0 decades - 14
Murad Bey11 decades - 15
Bulutkapan Ali Beynot measured- - 16
Osman Pazvantoğlu0 decades - 17
Konstantinos Ypsilantisnot measured- - 18
Saliha Sultan0 decades - 19
İbrahim Müteferrika0 decades - 20Mihrişah Sultan0 decades
- 21
Zaro Ağanot measured- - 22
Ibrahim Bey10 decades - 23Ayşe Sineperver Sultannot measured-
- 24
Patrona Halil0 decades - 25
Alemdar Mustafa Paşa0 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.