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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. 1Pope Gregory III700-741 · Religious Figures1 decades
  2. 2Pope Leo III750-816 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Saint Boniface675-754 · United Kingdom · Religious Figures17 decades
  4. 4Pope Zachary679-752 · Italy · Religious Figures11 decades
  5. 5Pope Constantine700-715 · Religious Figures0 decades
  6. 6Pope Gregory II669-731 · Italy · Religious Figures10 decades
  7. 7Muhammad al-Baqir677-733 · Religious Figures0 decades
  8. 8Pope Paul I700-767 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Adrian I700-795 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Pope-elect Stephen700-752 · Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  11. 11Pope Stephen III720-772 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Saint Walpurga710-779 · United Kingdom · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Beatus of Liébana731-798 · Religious Figures17 decades
  14. 14Willibald700-786 · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  15. 15Corbinian675-730 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  16. 16Saint Sturm704-779 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  17. 17Othmar689-759 · Switzerland · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  18. 18Lul710-786 · Germany · Religious Figures21 decades
  19. 19John of Beverley700-721 · Religious Figures17 decades
  20. 20Burchard I683-755 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  21. 21Magnus of Füssen683-756 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  22. 22Lebuinus701-775 · Religious Figures0 decades
  23. 23Abel of Reims700-764 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  24. 24Wulfred701-832 · Religious Figures11 decades
  25. 25Rumbold of Mechelen700-800 · Ireland · Religious Figuresnot measured-
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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.