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
- 1
Şahin Giray1745–1787 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures0 decades - 2
Chaim Joseph David Azulai1724–1806 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figures22 decades - 3AKAfife Kadın1685–1723 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 4DIDevlet IV Giray1728–1780 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 5SISelim III Giray1713–1786 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 6
Arslan Giray1692–1767 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured— - 7ZAZeynep Asima Sultan1714–1774 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 8ESEmetullah Sultan1701–1727 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 9Fetih II Giray1696–1746 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 10SISelim II Giray1708–1748 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 11ZSZübeyde Sultan1728–1756 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 12HGHalim Giray1689–1759 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 13EDEvstratii Delarov1744–1806 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Historical Figuresnot 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.