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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
  26. 26Anders Chydenius1729-1803 · Sweden · Religious Figures0 decades
  27. 27Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany1674-1728 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  28. 28Frei Galvão1739-1822 · Brazil · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  29. 29John Theodore of Bavaria1703-1763 · Religious Figures3 decades
  30. 30William Joseph Chaminade1761-1850 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  31. 31Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony1739-1812 · Germany · Religious Figures5 decades
  32. 32Pigneau de Behaine1741-1799 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  33. 33Francis Asbury1745-1816 · Religious Figures22 decades
  34. 34Giuseppe Simone Assemani1687-1768 · Turkey · Religious Figures6 decades
  35. 35Charles Joseph of Lorraine1680-1715 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  36. 36Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli1733-1810 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  37. 37Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani1719-1796 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  38. 38Alban Butler1710-1773 · Religious Figures13 decades
  39. 39Vincent Strambi1745-1824 · Religious Figures6 decades
  40. 40Christophe de Beaumont1703-1781 · France · Religious Figures22 decades
  41. 41Joseph-François Lafitau1681-1746 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  42. 42Franz Regis Clet1748-1820 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  43. 43Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn1676-1743 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  44. 44Niccolò Coscia1682-1755 · Religious Figures2 decades
  45. 45Frederick Charles of Schönborn1674-1746 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  46. 46Vicente Liem de la Paz1732-1773 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  47. 47Tadeusz Brzozowski1749-1820 · Russia · Religious Figures0 decades
  48. 48Giovanni Battista Sidotti1667-1714 · Religious Figures0 decades
  49. 49Andrew Fournet1752-1834 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  50. 50Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse1750-1815 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  51. 51Michał Jerzy Poniatowski1736-1794 · Poland · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  52. 52Alexander Rudnay1760-1831 · Hungary · Religious Figures1 decades
  53. 53Arsenius1697-1772 · Russia · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  54. 54Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata1757-1843 · Malta · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  55. 55Johann Ernst Hanxleden1681-1732 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  56. 56Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont1749-1815 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  57. 57Thomas Coke1747-1814 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  58. 58Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels1708-1784 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  59. 59Angelo d'Acri1669-1739 · Religious Figures2 decades
  60. 60Henry Essex Edgeworth1745-1807 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  61. 61Henric Schartau1757-1825 · Sweden · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  62. 62Bernard of Hoyos1711-1735 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  63. 63Richard Challoner1691-1781 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  64. 64Antonio Caballero y Góngora1723-1796 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  65. 65Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz1666-1725 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  66. 66Count Leopold Anton von Firmian1679-1744 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  67. 67Alessandro Mattei1744-1820 · Religious Figures20 decades
  68. 68César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck1724-1792 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  69. 69Charles François Lhomond1727-1794 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  70. 70Angelo Maria Durini1725-1796 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  71. 71József Batthyány1727-1799 · Hungary · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  72. 72Gennaro Maria Sarnelli1702-1744 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  73. 73Annibale Albani1682-1751 · Religious Figures22 decades
  74. 74John Dubois1764-1842 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  75. 75Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta1729-1800 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  76. 76Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan1738-1813 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  77. 77Scipione de' Ricci1740-1810 · Religious Figures22 decades
  78. 78Ignatius Michael III Jarweh1730-1800 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  79. 79Claude Poullart des Places1679-1709 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  80. 80Christoph Anton Migazzi1714-1803 · Religious Figures0 decades
  81. 81Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal1719-1802 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  82. 82Antonio Francesco Gori1691-1757 · Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  83. 83John Baptist Albertrandi1731-1808 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  84. 84Sigismund von Kollonitz1676-1751 · Austria · Religious Figures0 decades
  85. 85Yohannan VIII Hormizd1760-1838 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  86. 86Carlo Rezzonico1724-1799 · Religious Figures0 decades
  87. 87Tomás de Almeida1670-1754 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  88. 88Bernardino Giraud1721-1782 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  89. 89Domenico Orsini d'Aragona1719-1789 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  90. 90Salomon Leclerc1745-1792 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  91. 91Neri Maria Corsini1685-1770 · Religious Figures6 decades
  92. 92Leonard Neale1746-1817 · United States · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  93. 93Lorenzo Litta1756-1820 · Religious Figures20 decades
  94. 94Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini1683-1774 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  95. 95Paul d'Albert, Cardinal de Luynes1703-1788 · France · Religious Figures1 decades
  96. 96François-Charles de Velbrück1719-1784 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  97. 97Władysław Aleksander Łubieński1703-1767 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  98. 98Cardinal de Soubise1717-1756 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  99. 99Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta1682-1747 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  100. 100Christian David1692-1751 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot 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.