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The 8th century
Whose working lives fell in the 8th 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 8th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Charlemagne22 decades - 2
Li Bai11 decades - 3
Charles Martelnot measured- - 4
Bede22 decades - 5
Pope Gregory III1 decades - 6
Du Fu11 decades - 7
Abu Hanifa14 decades - 8
Pepin the Short20 decades - 9
Ja'far al-Sadiq1 decades - 10
Pope Leo III22 decades - 11
John of Damascus22 decades - 12
Jabir ibn Hayyan0 decades - 13
Irene of Athens0 decades - 14
Rolandnot measured- - 15
Leo III the Isaurian0 decades - 16
Padmasambhava7 decades - 17
Tariq ibn Ziyad0 decades - 18
Justinian II21 decades - 19
Malik ibn Anas0 decades - 20
Pope Stephen II1 decades - 21
Saint Boniface17 decades - 22
Pelagius of Asturiasnot measured- - 23
Abd al-Rahman I0 decades - 24
Pope Zachary11 decades - 25
Al-Mansur4 decades
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.