Data sources

Short descriptions and some summaries are written with an AI model from the cited sources.

• Profile text drawn from Wikipedia is used under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Every profile lists the articles it draws on, and each of those pages carries its authors and its full history. CC BY-SA 4.0
• Quotations come from Wikiquote and are used under the same Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Each one links back to the page it was taken from, which carries its citation and its history. CC BY-SA 4.0
• Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. Every file has its own licence: the viewer names the photographer and the licence where they are recorded, and links the file page, which carries both in full.
• Facts come from Wikidata, which is published under CC0. No credit is required for it; we give it because so much of every profile is theirs.
• When a profile says why attention moved and lists the reports behind it, the publisher, the headline, the date and the link are taken from the references on the matching Wikipedia articles, under the same Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 licence. We store those four details and nothing from the articles themselves; each one links to the publisher so you can read it at the source. CC BY-SA 4.0
• This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
• Football data provided by the Football-Data.org API. football-data.org
• Channel figures come from the YouTube API Services, so the YouTube Terms of Service apply to this site, and Google's Privacy Policy describes what Google collects. YouTube Terms of Service · Google Privacy Policy
• Music comes from Spotify. Artists, releases and tracks stay credited to them, and every one whose address we hold links back to Spotify.
• Album and single artwork comes from the iTunes catalogue and remains the property of its rights holders. We host none of it; every cover is served from Apple's own servers.
• Release histories come from MusicBrainz, maintained by the MetaBrainz Foundation and its contributors.
• Print frequency over the decades comes from the Google Books Ngram corpus, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. CC BY 3.0
• Net worth figures name the publication that estimated them on the list where they appear.

A Fame score is a reading of public attention on a scale of 0 to 100. It is not a measure of worth, talent, character or credibility, and a high score is not praise.

Scores are computed from public data and refreshed regularly, so they move as public attention does. Placement cannot be bought, and nobody can edit their own score.

• Everything we use is public: official APIs and public pages, never anything behind a login.
• We do not collect private messages, private account data, or anything a person has not already made public.
• Anyone can claim their profile, ask for a correction, or ask to be removed.