← Fame through time700-799
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
Emperor Kanmu0 decades - 2
Kōkennot measured- - 3
Shōmu0 decades - 4
Genshō0 decades - 5
Monmu0 decades - 6
Kōnin0 decades - 7
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro0 decades - 8
Junnin0 decades - 9
Ōtomo no Yakamochi0 decades - 10
Abe no Nakamaro0 decades - 11
Ō no Yasumaro0 decades - 12Hieda no Are0 decades
- 13
Kōmyōnot measured- - 14
Toneri-shinnōnot measured- - 15Ōtomo no Otomaronot measured-
- 16
Dōkyōnot measured- - 17
Kibi no Makibi0 decades - 18
Bodhisena0 decades - 19
Chūjō-himenot measured- - 20Fujiwara no Nakamaro0 decades
- 21
Gyōki0 decades - 22
Prince Nagaya0 decades - 23
Fujiwara no Fusasaki0 decades - 24
Fujiwara no Muchimaro0 decades - 25Fujiwara no Otomuronot 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.