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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Paul Revere	6,244
2	Samuel Adams	4,976
3	Henry Knox	731
4	William Dawes	327
5	Joseph Warren	300
6	Francisco Dagohoy	218
7	Charles Bulfinch	123
8	William Billings	109
9	Royall Tyler	65
10	James Bowdoin	63
11	Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft	57
12	Frederick Gotthold Enslin	51
13	Benjamin Church	49
14	Thomas Cushing	45
15	William Hill Brown	42
16	Increase Sumner	35
17	Pál Kray	35
18	John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst	34
19	Mather Byles	34
20	Josiah Quincy II	32
21	John Murray (minister)	31
22	Raiymbek Batyr	31
23	John Smybert	30
24	Benjamin Edes	23
25	Eva Marie Veigel	22
26	Benjamin Dearborn	21
27	John Rowe (merchant)	20
28	Fran Gamba	20
29	John Adams (poet)	18
30	Hannah Quick	18
31	Peter Fister	17
32	Joseph Badger	17
33	Joseph Knight (slave)	16
34	Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet	16
35	Elisha Cooke, Sr.	15
36	Catharine Montour	14
37	Daniel Fowle (printer)	13
38	Benjamin Russell (journalist)	13
39	Mirza Najaf Khan	13
40	Thomas Boone (governor)	12
41	Janez Graffenhueber	12
42	Anton Raab	12
43	Janez Jurij Pilgram	12
44	Janez Nepomuk Mikolitsch	12
45	Jakob Herendler	11
46	Perez Morton	11
47	Henry Sargent	10
48	Samuel Crowell	10
49	Matija Christian	10
50	Matevž Fran Beer	10
51	Jurij Ambrož Kappus	10
52	Josip Pototschnig	10
53	Thomas Dawes	9
54	Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi	9
55	Janez Kristof Pucher pl. Puechenthall	9
56	Florijan von Grafflieiden	9
57	Janez Mihael Kuk	9
58	Francisco Ximenes de Texada	8
59	Hepzibah Swan	8
60	Kostandin and Athanas Zografi	8
61	John Sylvester John Gardiner	7
62	Abijah Adams	7
63	Gabriel Eder	7
64	Anton Janeshitsh	7
65	Anton Fran Wagner	7
66	Anton Podobnik	7
67	Samuel Hill (engraver)	7
68	Pedro Malo de Villavicencio	6
69	Matija Bertolloti	6
70	Janez Friderik Egger	6
71	Balthazar P. Melick	6
72	Balthasar Siberer	less than 5 views
73	Moytoy of Citico	less than 5 views
74	James Swan (financier)	less than 5 views
75	Amandus Ivančič	less than 5 views
76	Johann Joseph Thalherr	less than 5 views
77	Benjamin Spruill	less than 5 views
78	James Freeman (clergyman)	less than 5 views
79	William Ansah Sessarakoo	less than 5 views
80	Aaron Jarosław	less than 5 views
81	Adrianmanotronavalonimerina	less than 5 views
82	Cristofano Berardi	less than 5 views
83	William Foye	less than 5 views
84	Akpan Okon	less than 5 views
85	Caleb Davis	less than 5 views
86	Stephen Deblois	less than 5 views
87	Elisha Cooke, Jr.	less than 5 views
88	Rebekah Chamblit	less than 5 views
89	Sibella Cottle	less than 5 views
90	John Avery, Jr.	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• 18th-century African people
• 18th-century Christians
• 18th-century criminals
• 18th-century people by conflict
• 18th-century people by ethnicity
• 18th-century people by nationality
• 18th-century people by occupation
• 18th-century women

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• 18th century
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