← 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
Abu Hanifa14 decades - 2
John of Damascus22 decades - 3
Padmasambhava7 decades - 4
Malik ibn Anas0 decades - 5
Alcuin22 decades - 6
Zayd ibn Ali0 decades - 7
Shantideva4 decades - 8
Sibawayh1 decades - 9
Musa al-Kadhim0 decades - 10Abu Yusuf13 decades
- 11
Ibrahim ibn Adham0 decades - 12
Sufyan al-Thawri0 decades - 13Kumārila Bhaṭṭa0 decades
- 14
Abdullah ibn Mubarak0 decades - 15
Muhammad al-Shaybani0 decades - 16
Śāntarakṣita1 decades - 17
Vergilius of Salzburg0 decades - 18
Mazu Daoyinot measured- - 19
Yi Xing0 decades - 20
Kamalaśīla1 decades - 21Claudius of Turin5 decades
- 22Asad ibn al-Furat0 decades
- 23
Kibi no Makibi0 decades - 24Ja'd ibn Dirham0 decades
- 25
Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala'not measured- - 26Abu 'Ubaida0 decades
- 27Ibrāhīm al-Fazārīnot measured-
- 28
Hisham ibn Hakam0 decades - 29
Zhanran0 decades - 30Yuan Zai0 decades
- 31Mūsā ibn Shākirnot measured-
- 32
Han Huang0 decades - 33Al-Akhfash al-Akbarnot measured-
- 34
Akalanka0 decades - 35Ibn Sallâm al-Jumahînot measured-
- 36Cui Zaonot measured-
- 37Lallanot measured-
- 38Al-Ru'asinot 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.