← 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
Li Bai11 decades - 2
Bede22 decades - 3
Du Fu11 decades - 4
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang3 decades - 5
Abu Nuwas6 decades - 6
Wang Wei9 decades - 7
Ibn Ishaq7 decades - 8
Paul the Deacon22 decades - 9
Yang Guifei2 decades - 10
Theophanes the Confessor0 decades - 11Ibn Hišām0 decades
- 12
Lu Yu1 decades - 13
Emperor Dezong of Tangnot measured- - 14
Rabia of Basra0 decades - 15
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidinot measured- - 16Al-Waqidi0 decades
- 17
Ibn al-Muqaffa'0 decades - 18
Theodore the Studite0 decades - 19
Wang Changling6 decades - 20
Yeshe Tsogyel0 decades - 21
Ludger20 decades - 22
Nikephoros I of Constantinoplenot measured- - 23
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri0 decades - 24Al-Khayzuran0 decades
- 25
Gao Shinot 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.