← 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
Jean-Baptiste Kléber0 decades
- 2
Robert Adam22 decades - 3
Lancelot Brown2 decades - 4
John Nash22 decades - 5
Thomas Chippendale11 decades - 6
Filippo Juvarra12 decades - 7
Pierre Charles L’Enfant0 decades - 8
Luigi Vanvitelli22 decades - 9
John Soane22 decades - 10
Étienne-Louis Boullée0 decades - 11
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli3 decades - 12
Claude Nicolas Ledoux5 decades - 13
James Hoban8 decades - 14
Benjamin Henry Latrobe7 decades - 15
Jacques-Germain Soufflot1 decades - 16
Ange-Jacques Gabriel9 decades - 17
Andrey Voronikhin6 decades - 18
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff5 decades - 19
Carl Gotthard Langhans6 decades - 20
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt7 decades - 21
William Chambers22 decades - 22
Matvey Kazakov6 decades - 23
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlingtonnot measured- - 24
Ventura Rodríguez22 decades
- 25
James Gibbs22 decades - 26
Giacomo Quarenghi14 decades - 27
Giuseppe Valadier21 decades - 28
Nicola Salvi18 decades - 29Dominikus Zimmermann9 decades
- 30
Giuseppe Piermarini22 decades - 31
Domenico Trezzini2 decades - 32
Juan de Villanueva22 decades - 33
José Benito de Churriguera9 decades - 34
William Adam22 decades - 35
George Bähr4 decades - 36
Jacques-François Blondel8 decades - 37
Agustín de Betancourt11 decades - 38
Jean-François Chalgrinnot measured- - 39
Cosmas Damian Asam10 decades - 40
James Wyatt22 decades - 41
Humphry Repton5 decades - 42
William Thornton22 decades - 43
Charles Bulfinch15 decades - 44
Charles Percier Bassant7 decades - 45
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontainenot measured- - 46
Alessandro Galilei21 decades - 47François de Cuvilliésnot measured-
- 48Jan Santini Aichelnot measured-
- 49
María Antonia de Paz y Figueroanot measured- - 50
Alexander Kokorinov0 decades - 51Mikhail Zemtsov3 decades
- 52
Kilián Ignaz Dientzenhofernot measured- - 53
Antonio Rinaldi18 decades - 54
Ferdinando Fuga22 decades - 55
Victor Louis14 decades - 56
Giovanni Battista Nolli2 decades - 57
Christian Frederik Hansen0 decades - 58
Charles Cameron22 decades - 59
Francesco Sabatini17 decades - 60
Germain Boffrand12 decades - 61
Jean-Jacques Lequeu0 decades - 62
Johann Michael Fischer9 decades - 63
Laurynas Gucevičiusnot measured- - 64
Johann Conrad Schlaun7 decades - 65
Colen Campbell1 decades - 66
Nicolai Eigtved0 decades - 67
Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach5 decades - 68
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart2 decades - 69
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet1 decades - 70
Manuel Tolsá12 decades - 71
James Adam22 decades - 72Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothenot measured-
- 73
Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blondnot measured- - 74
Giuseppe Vasi15 decades - 75
Johann Christoph Glaubitz0 decades - 76
Carl Hårlemannot measured-
- 77
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durandnot measured- - 78
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier0 decades - 79
Yury Feltennot measured- - 80
James Gandon0 decades - 81
Richard Mique12 decades - 82
Jean-François Thomas de Thomonnot measured- - 83
Francesco Piranesi17 decades - 84
Andreyan Zakharov0 decades - 85
Ivan Starov0 decades - 86
Chrystian Piotr Aigner0 decades - 87
Savva Chevakinsky0 decades - 88
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyinot measured- - 89
Domenico Merlini1 decades - 90
Jan Bouman0 decades - 91
Emmanuel Héré de Corny5 decades - 92
Dmitry Ukhtomskynot measured- - 93
Benedetto Alfierinot measured- - 94
Ernst Peymannnot measured- - 95
Tommaso Temanza20 decades - 96
Bernardo Antonio Vittonenot measured- - 97
Matthew Brettingham0 decades - 98
Charles-Louis Clérisseau1 decades - 99
Szymon Bogumił Zug0 decades - 100
Friedrich Ludwig von Sckellnot 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.