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← 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. 1Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla1753-1811 · Spain · Religious Figures21 decades
  2. 2Pope Leo XII1760-1829 · Italy · Religious Figures20 decades
  3. 3Pope Pius VI1717-1799 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  4. 4Pope Pius VII1742-1823 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  5. 5Pope Benedict XIV1675-1758 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  6. 6Pope Clement XIV1705-1774 · Italy · Religious Figures20 decades
  7. 7John Newton1725-1807 · Religious Figures22 decades
  8. 8Pope Clement XIII1693-1769 · Italy · Religious Figures21 decades
  9. 9Alphonsus Liguori1696-1787 · Italy · Religious Figures18 decades
  10. 10Pope Pius VIII1761-1830 · Italy · Religious Figures1 decades
  11. 11Louis de Montfort1673-1716 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  12. 12Junípero Serra1713-1784 · Spain · Religious Figures18 decades
  13. 13Henry Benedict Stuart1725-1807 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Henri Grégoire1750-1831 · France · Religious Figures18 decades
  15. 15Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria1756-1801 · Austria · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  16. 16Cardinal de Rohan1734-1803 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Gerard Majella1726-1755 · Religious Figures9 decades
  18. 18Clemens August of Bavaria1700-1761 · Germany · Religious Figures5 decades
  19. 19Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinople1745-1821 · Turkey · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  20. 20John Carroll1735-1815 · United States · Religious Figures22 decades
  21. 21Clemens Maria Hofbauer1751-1820 · Religious Figures10 decades
  22. 22Augustin Barruel1741-1820 · France · Religious Figures4 decades
  23. 23Tikhon of Zadonsk1724-1783 · Russia · Religious Figures16 decades
  24. 24Richard Allen1760-1831 · United States · Religious Figures22 decades
  25. 25Joseph Clemens of Bavaria1671-1723 · Germany · Religious Figures1 decades
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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.