← 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
Ahmed III3 decades - 2
Paisius of Hilendarnot measured- - 3
Nedîmnot measured- - 4Salomée Halpirnot measured-
- 5
Koca Ragıp Paşanot measured- - 6
Ahmed Resmi Efendi0 decades - 7
Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi0 decades - 8
Sheikh Ghalib0 decades - 9Enderûnlu Fâzılnot measured-
- 10
Michael Drakos Soutzosnot measured- - 11
Seffarininot measured- - 12Osman Aga of Temesvarnot measured-
- 13John Mavrocordatosnot measured-
- 14Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Murtaḍá ibn Muḥammad Baḥr al-ʻUlūmnot measured-
- 15
Macarius of Corinthnot measured- - 16
Samuel Ier Hangerlinot measured- - 17
Nezim Frakullanot measured- - 18Sünbülzade Vehbinot measured-
- 19Fitnat Hanımnot measured-
- 20Mula Mustafa Bašeskijanot measured-
- 21
Giritli Ali Aziz Efendinot measured- - 22Yoakim Karchovskinot measured-
- 23
Mustapha Aganot measured- - 24Paghtasar Dpirnot measured-
- 25Müterci Asım Efendinot 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.