← 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
Charles Martelnot measured- - 2
Irene of Athens0 decades - 3
Justinian II21 decades - 4
Abd al-Rahman I0 decades - 5
Al-Mansur4 decades - 6
Al-Walid I0 decades - 7
Constantine VI12 decades - 8
Marwan II0 decades - 9
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Maliknot measured- - 10
Al-Mahdi4 decades - 11
Hisham ibn Abd al-Maliknot measured- - 12
Umar II1 decades - 13
Tiberius III0 decades - 14
Al-Walid II0 decades - 15
Yazid II0 decades - 16
Al-Hadi0 decades - 17
Carlomannot measured- - 18
Yazid III0 decades - 19
Ibrahim ibn al-Walidnot measured- - 20
Paolo Lucio Anafesto0 decades - 21
Genshō0 decades - 22
Ja'far ibn Yahya0 decades - 23
Hisham I of Córdobanot measured- - 24Princess Taiping0 decades
- 25Al-Muqanna0 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.