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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Mark Twain	United States	Journalists	98.2	10.0
#2	—	Benito Mussolini	Italy	Journalists	89.0	1.1
#3	—	Joan of Arc	France	Journalists	86.4	0.0
#4	—	Saddam Hussein	—	Journalists	85.7	3.8
#5	—	Simone de Beauvoir	France	Journalists	84.0	0.0
#6	—	Boris Johnson	United States	Journalists	83.0	10.3
#7	—	Hirohito	Japan	Journalists	81.1	1.8
#8	—	Graham Hancock	United Kingdom	Journalists	81.0	25.0
#9	—	Yury Dud	Germany	Journalists	80.8	7.9
#10	—	Alexander Nevzorov	—	Journalists	80.2	8.3
#11	—	Saladin	—	Journalists	79.5	0.7
#12	—	Lauren Southern	Canada	Journalists	79.2	15.1
#13	—	Megyn Kelly	United States	Journalists	78.8	0.0
#14	—	Anatoly Shariy	—	Journalists	78.3	29.2
#15	new	JH Johnny Harris	United States	Journalists	78.1	15.1
#16	1	Anita Sarkeesian	Canada	Journalists	78.1	15.0
#17	1	Katie Couric	United States	Journalists	78.1	3.1
#18	1	Laura Loomer	United States	Journalists	77.7	9.3
#19	1	Krystal Ball	United States	Journalists	77.5	16.4
#20	1	Yair Lapid	Israel	Journalists	77.0	25.0
#21	1	Bill O'Reilly	United States	Journalists	76.3	0.6
#22	1	Vitaly Portnikov	—	Journalists	76.1	3.4
#23	1	Benny Gantz	Israel	Journalists	75.7	27.1
#24	1	Daniel Defoe	United Kingdom	Journalists	75.7	0.0
#25	1	André Gide	France	Journalists	75.6	0.6
#26	1	Steven Crowder	United States	Journalists	75.1	0.0
#27	1	Park Yeon-mi	—	Journalists	75.0	0.0
#28	1	Katerina Gordeeva	—	Journalists	74.9	12.9
#29	1	Andrey Malakhov	—	Journalists	74.9	12.9
#30	1	Fatih Altaylı	Turkey	Journalists	74.8	16.9
#31	1	William the Conqueror	France	Journalists	74.5	10.0
#32	1	Nigella Lawson	United Kingdom	Journalists	74.4	0.0
#33	1	Dmytro Komarov	—	Journalists	74.3	15.0
#34	1	José Saramago	Portugal	Journalists	74.2	0.4
#35	1	Kyle Kulinski	United States	Journalists	73.6	1.4
#36	1	Tina Kandelaki	—	Journalists	73.5	15.3
#37	1	Leonid Parfyonov	—	Journalists	73.5	2.3
#38	1	Kari Lake	United States	Journalists	73.1	15.0
#39	1	Mikel López Iturriaga	Spain	Journalists	73.0	10.0
#40	1	Karen Davila	—	Journalists	72.7	5.7
#41	1	Oles Buzina	—	Journalists	72.6	6.7
#42	1	Augusto Pinochet	—	Journalists	72.3	1.1
#43	1	Dmitry Bykov	—	Journalists	72.1	0.0
#44	1	Sam Vaknin	Israel	Journalists	72.0	4.4
#45	1	Alexei Venediktov	—	Journalists	72.0	0.0
#46	1	Charlotte d'Ornellas	France	Journalists	72.0	15.0
#47	1	Willy Brandt	Germany	Journalists	71.6	0.0
#48	1	Ian Fleming	United Kingdom	Journalists	71.5	5.7
#49	1	Emma Goldman	—	Journalists	71.5	0.0
#50	1	G. K. Chesterton	United Kingdom	Journalists	71.1	1.2
#51	1	Rainer Zitelmann	Germany	Journalists	71.1	19.8
#52	1	Vyacheslav Maltsev	—	Journalists	71.0	5.8
#53	1	Dmitry Rogozin	—	Journalists	70.9	0.0
#54	1	Hamilton Morris	United States	Journalists	70.9	6.6
#55	1	Evelina Khromchenko	—	Journalists	70.8	10.0
#56	1	Tutta Larsen	—	Journalists	70.8	5.6
#57	1	Tiberius	Italy	Journalists	70.7	0.0
#58	1	Edward VIII	United Kingdom	Journalists	70.7	1.5
#59	1	Juan Soto Ivars	Spain	Journalists	70.7	4.0
#60	1	Yevgeny Kiselyov	—	Journalists	70.6	0.6
#61	1	Eugeni Komarovskiy	—	Journalists	70.5	2.0
#62	1	Malcolm Turnbull	Australia	Journalists	70.5	1.7
#63	1	François Ruffin	France	Journalists	70.5	0.0
#64	1	Yelizaveta Osetinskaya	—	Journalists	70.2	5.9
#65	1	Martin Sonneborn	Germany	Journalists	70.1	0.0
#66	1	Boy Abunda	—	Journalists	69.9	2.8
#67	1	Leyla Alieva	—	Journalists	69.9	2.8
#68	1	Dan Crenshaw	United States	Journalists	69.7	0.0
#69	1	Ross Mathews	United States	Journalists	69.7	10.0
#70	1	Yuri Shvets	—	Journalists	69.5	0.0
#71	1	Fabio Caressa	Italy	Journalists	69.5	2.1
#72	1	Rokhaya Diallo	France	Journalists	69.4	15.0
#73	1	Kaitlan Collins	United States	Journalists	69.3	3.8
#74	1	Hugh Hewitt	United States	Journalists	69.0	6.8
#75	1	Sophiko Shevardnadze	—	Journalists	68.7	1.4
#76	1	Najam Sethi	—	Journalists	68.6	2.7
#77	1	Annette Dittert	Germany	Journalists	68.5	9.2
#78	1	Frederick Douglass	United States	Journalists	68.5	6.8
#79	1	SM Sarah Maria Sander	Germany	Journalists	68.3	7.9
#80	1	KL Kseniya Larina	—	Journalists	68.2	7.1
#81	1	Hamid Elmahdaouy	—	Journalists	68.2	4.7
#82	1	Aleksey Mozgovoy	—	Journalists	68.1	5.0
#83	1	Andrei Chikatilo	—	Journalists	68.1	5.4
#84	1	Sergey Dorenko	Turkey	Journalists	68.1	0.0
#85	1	Yair Netanyahu	Israel	Journalists	68.1	4.2
#86	1	Theodor Herzl	—	Journalists	68.0	1.2
#87	1	Natalya Sindeyeva	—	Journalists	67.9	2.7
#88	1	Aleksandr Plyushchev	—	Journalists	67.9	0.2
#89	1	Geoff Keighley	Canada	Journalists	67.8	10.0
#90	1	Dmitry Dibrov	—	Journalists	67.7	18.1
#91	1	Carles Puigdemont	Spain	Journalists	67.7	4.7
#92	1	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	United States	Journalists	67.5	0.0
#93	1	Natalia Moseichuk	—	Journalists	67.5	0.9
#94	1	Jürgen Elsässer	Germany	Journalists	67.5	4.9
#95	1	Michelle Malkin	United States	Journalists	67.3	0.0
#96	1	Artemi Troitski	—	Journalists	67.2	2.3
#97	1	Bari Weiss	United States	Journalists	67.2	10.0
#98	1	Yoav Gallant	Israel	Journalists	67.2	2.1
#99	1	Nadiya Savchenko	—	Journalists	67.1	0.0
#100	1	Leonid Mlechin	—	Journalists	67.0	0.0

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