← 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
Jabir ibn Hayyan0 decades - 2Al-ʾAṣmaʿiyynot measured-
- 3
Mashallah ibn Atharinot measured- - 4
Dicuil10 decades - 5Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārīnot measured-
- 6
Gyōki0 decades - 7Gautama Siddha0 decades
- 8Naubakhtnot measured-
- 9Yahya ibn Abi Kathirnot measured-
- 10
Jia Dan0 decades - 11Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriqnot measured-
- 12An-Nadhar bin Syamilnot measured-
- 13Li Jifu0 decades
- 14
ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn al-Qāsimnot measured- - 15Salama ibn Dinarnot measured-
- 16Haridattanot 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.