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Great Lives from History: The 18th Century

Great Lives from History: The 18th Century
Contents by Country or Region

Arabia
Abd al-Wahhab

Austria
Charles VI
Eugen, Prince of Savoy-Carignon
Fischer von Erlach, Johann
Gluck, Christoph
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Hildebrandt, Johann Lucas von
Joseph II
Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton von
Maria Theresa
Marie-Antoinette
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Vivaldi, Antonio

Brazil
Lisboa, Antonio Francisco

Burma
Alaungpaya

Canada
Brant, Joseph
Carleton, Guy
Clinton, Henry
Montcalm, Louis Joseph Marquis de
Thanadelthur

China
Cao Xueqin
Dai Zhen
Qian Long
Wang Zhenyi
Yongzheng

Denmark
Bering, Vitus Jonassen

England
Abington, Frances
Adam, Robert, and James Adam
Addison, Joseph
Amherst, Lord
André, John
Anne, Queen
Anson, Lord
Arkwright, Richard
Astell, Mary
Banks, Sir Joseph
Barbauld, Anna
Baskerville, John
Bateman, Hester
Bentham, Jeremy
Blackstone, William
Blake, William
Bligh, William
Bolingbroke, First Viscount
Boulton, Matthew
Brindley, James
Brown, Lancelot
Burney, Charles
Burney, Fanny
Butler, Joseph
Cavendish, Georgiana
Cavendish, Henry
Chapone, Hester
Charlotte Sophia
Churchill, Sarah Jennings
Clive, Robert
Cook, Captain James
Cornwallis, First Marquess
Cowley, Hannah
Darby, Abraham
Defoe, Daniel
Fielding, Henry
Fitzherbert, Maria
Fox, Charles James
Gage, Thomas
Gainsborough, Thomas
Garrick, David
George I
George II
George III
Gibbon, Edward
Godolphin, First Earl of
Godwin, William
Goldsmith, Oliver
Handel, George Frideric
Hargreaves, James
Hastings, Warren
Hawksmoor, Nicholas
Herschel, Caroline
Hogarth, William
Howe, Admiral Richard
Howe, General William
Jenner, Edward
Johnson, Samuel
Kay, John
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
Lennox, Charlotte
Macaulay, Catherine
Manley, Mary de la Rivière
Mansfield, First Earl of
Marlborough, First Duke of
Montagu, Mary Wortley
More, Hannah
Murdock, William
Newbery, John
Newcomen, Thomas
North, Lord
Oldfield, Anne
Paley, William
Pelham, Henry
Phillip, Arthur
Pitt the Younger, William
Pitt the Elder, William
Pope, Alexander
Priestley, Joseph
Radcliffe, Ann
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Richardson, Samuel
Robinson, Mary Darby
Rodney, George
Roebuck, John
Romney, George
Seward, Anna
Sharp, Granville
Siddons, Sarah
Stanhope, First Earl
Steele, Richard
Stukeley, William
Tull, Jethro
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vancouver, George
Walpole, Sir Robert
Wedgwood, Josiah
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John
West, Benjamin
Whitefield, George
Wilberforce, William
Wilkes, John
Wilkinson, John
Wolfe, James
Wollstonecraft, Mary

Ethiopia
Menetewab

France
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Boffrand, Germain
Bonneval, Comte de
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Boulogne, Joseph
Buffon, Comte de
Carnot, Lazare
Chardin, Jean Siméon
Chatelet, Gabrielle Émilie du
Choiseul, Étienne-François d'
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Condorcet, Marquis de
Couperin, François
Danton, Georges
Dauberval, Jean
Diderot, Denis
Dupleix, Joseph François, Marquis de
Fleury, André-Hercule de
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
Holbach, Paul Henri
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Leblanc, Nicolas
Lesage, Alain-René
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Marat, Jean-Paul
Mirabeau, Comte de
Monge, Gaspard
Montalembert, Marc Rene, Marquis de
Montesquieu
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel
Necker, Jacques
Orléans, Duc d'
Poisson, Jeanne-Antoinette
Quesnay, François
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas
Robespierre
Rochambeau, Comte de
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Sade, Marquis de
Saint-Just, Louis de
Sieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph
Staël, Madame de
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth
Voltaire
Watteau, Antoine

Germany
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Basedow, Johann Bernhard
Caroline of Ansbach
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Frederick the Great
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Herschel, William
Kant, Immanuel
Klopstock, Friedrich
LaRoche, Sophie
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Mendelssohn, Moses
Peter III
Saxe, Hermann Maurice, comte de
Schiller, Friedrich
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Zinzendorf, Graf von

Haiti
Toussaint-Louverture

Hawaii
Kamehameha I

India
Haidar Ali
Shah Wali-Ullah

Iran
Karim Khan Zand
Nadir Khan
Vahid Bihbahani

Ireland
Berkeley, George
Burke, Edmund
FitzGerald, Edward
Grattan, Henry
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Swift, Jonathan
Tone, Theobald Wolfe
Woffington, Peg

Italy
Agnesi, Maria
Beccaria, Cesar
Benedict XIV
Boccherini, Luigi
Canaletto
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
Galvani, Luigi
Pius VI
Scarlatti, Alessandro
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Stradivari, Antonio
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Vico, Giambattista
Volta, Alessandro

Jamaica
Nanny

Japan
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Hakuin
Honda Toshiaki
Ogyu Sorai
Suzuki, Harunobu

Lithuania
Elijah ben Solomon

Mali
Sidi al-Mukhtar Ibn Ahmad Ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti

Netherlands
Fahrenheit, Daniel

Nigeria
Equiano, Oloudah

Ottoman Empire
Ahmed III
Levni, Ressam
Mahmud I
Mustafa III

Peru
Tupac Amaru

Poland
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
Krasicki, Ignatius

Portugal
Carvalho e Mello, Sebastão José de

Prussia
Frederick I
Frederick William I

Russia
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth Petrovna
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Orlov, Count Aleksei
Orlov, Count Grigori
Peter the Great
Potemkin, Grigori, Prince
Pugachov, Yemelyan
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich

Scotland
Black, Joseph
Boswell, James
Bruce, James
Burns, Robert
Campbell, John, Second Duke of Argyll
Erskine, First Baron
Ferguson, Adam
Hume, David
Macdonald, Flora
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
Maclaurin, Colin
Park, Mungo
Smith, Adam
Watt, James
Witherspoon, John

Spain
Charles III
Gálvez, José
Goya, Francisco de
Philip V
Serra, Junipero

Sweden
Charles XII
Linnaeus
Swedenborg, Emanuel

Switzerland
Euler, Leonhard
Helvetius, Claude
Kauffmann, Angelica
Pestalozzi, Johann

Thailand
Taksin

Ukraine
Ba`al Shem Tov

United States
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Allen, Ethan
Arnold, Benedict
Asbury, Francis
Backus, Isaac
Banneker, Benjamin
Boone, Daniel
Carroll, Charles
Chase, Samuel
Clark, George Rogers
Copley, John Singleton
Dickinson, John
Edwards, Jonathan
Fitch, John
Franklin, Benjamin
Gerry, Elbridge
Greene, Nathanael
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
Henry, Patrick
Hutchinson, Thomas
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Jones, John Paul
Lee, Ann
Little Turtle
McGillivray, Alexander
Madison, James
Mason, George
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, Robert
Oglethorpe, James Edward
Paine, Thomas
Peale, Charles Willson
Pontiac
Revere, Paul
Ross, Betsy
Rush, Benjamin
Sewall, Samuel
Shays, Daniel
Sherman, Roger
Stuart, Gilbert
Trumbull, John
Warren, Mercy
Washington, George
Wayne, Anthony
Wheatley, Phillis
Whitney, Eli
Wilson, James
Zenger, John Peter

Vietnam
Nguyen Hue