Legacy

Historical figures

Durable public attention across generations.

About this leaderboard

Historical figures ranked by modern public attention on Fame.am. Snapshot date: 2026-06-02. #1: Adolf Hitler. Scores use methodology fame.score.v2.0 — Wikipedia page views, search interest, and web mentions show how much attention a historical figure still commands today.

Scope: Historical figures
Snapshot date: 2026-06-02
Top historical figure: Adolf Hitler
Methodology version: fame.score.v2.0

🏛️ Historical legends ranked by modern attention

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Full ranking

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Adolf Hitler Acting	—	Politicians	84.3	10.0
#2	new	Napoleon Writing	France	Politicians	80.3	1.2
#3	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	—	Historical Figures	82.7	10.0
#4	new	Joseph Stalin Acting	—	Politicians	82.2	10.1
#5	new	Michael Jackson	United States	Musicians	82.9	15.1
#6	new	Joe Jackson	United States	Musicians	82.2	15.1
#7	new	Cleopatra	—	Politicians	76.2	0.0
#8	new	Freddie Mercury	United Kingdom	Musicians	75.7	0.0
#9	new	Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	Business Professionals	81.2	10.0
#10	new	Alexander the Great Acting	—	Historical Figures	75.0	0.7
#11	new	Che Guevara Acting	—	Activists	74.7	0.6
#12	new	Jeffrey Epstein	United States	Executives	79.4	10.0
#13	new	Elvis Presley	United States	Musicians	78.2	11.5
#14	new	William Shakespeare Writing	—	Writers	77.5	10.0
#15	new	Henry VIII of England	—	Business Professionals	77.4	11.0
#16	new	George VI Acting	United Kingdom	Politicians	76.8	10.0
#17	new	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sound	—	Musicians	88.6	11.9
#18	new	Jesus Acting	—	Religious Figures	69.7	0.0
#19	new	Queen Victoria	—	Politicians	70.4	0.4
#20	new	Julius Caesar Writing	—	Politicians	69.1	0.0
#21	new	Prince	United States	Musicians	69.3	0.0
#22	new	Hermann Göring	—	Politicians	68.3	0.0
#23	new	Vladimir Lenin Acting	—	Politicians	67.5	0.0
#24	new	Nikola Tesla Acting	—	Scientists	69.0	1.2
#25	new	Elizabeth I of England	—	Politicians	68.1	0.7
#26	new	Karl Marx Acting	—	Academics	69.3	1.4
#27	new	Marilyn Monroe	United States	Actors	74.3	6.4
#28	new	John F. Kennedy	United States	Politicians	74.6	12.2
#29	new	Bob Marley	—	Musicians	74.5	10.0
#30	new	Vincent van Gogh Acting	—	Artists	67.7	0.9
#31	new	Muhammad Ali Acting	United States	Athletes	73.2	5.0
#32	new	Joan of Arc	—	Historical Figures	66.8	0.3
#33	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer Acting	United States	Scientists	72.3	5.1
#34	new	Christopher Columbus	—	Historical Figures	64.5	0.0
#35	new	Martin Luther King Jr. Acting	United States	Activists	64.2	0.0
#36	new	Michelangelo	—	Artists	66.2	1.3
#37	new	Fyodor Dostoevsky Writing	—	Writers	72.4	10.5
#38	new	Louis XIV of France	—	Politicians	64.0	0.0
#39	new	Pablo Picasso Acting	Spain	Artists	63.3	0.0
#40	new	Robin Williams	United States	Comedians	72.0	11.5
#41	new	Franklin D. Roosevelt	United States	Politicians	71.2	7.5
#42	new	Abraham Lincoln	United States	Politicians	64.2	0.8
#43	new	Nelson Mandela Acting	South Africa	Activists	62.7	0.2
#44	new	Augustus Acting	—	Politicians	62.2	0.0
#45	new	Pope John Paul II Acting	—	Religious Figures	61.5	0.0
#46	new	J. R. R. Tolkien Writing	United Kingdom	Writers	70.1	12.6
#47	new	Sigmund Freud Acting	—	Academics	62.3	0.5
#48	new	Jimmy Carter Acting	United States	Politicians	61.4	0.0
#49	new	Ludwig van Beethoven Sound	—	Musicians	86.8	10.2
#50	new	Bruce Lee	—	Actors	61.1	0.0
#51	new	Charlie Chaplin	—	Actors	62.4	0.7
#52	new	Jeffrey Dahmer	United States	Historical Figures	68.8	6.4
#53	new	Steve Jobs	United States	Designers	60.6	0.0
#54	new	Winston Churchill	United Kingdom	Politicians	61.3	0.4
#55	new	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Acting	Turkey	Politicians	68.3	10.6
#56	new	Margaret Thatcher	United Kingdom	Politicians	67.1	4.6
#57	new	Gene Hackman	United States	Actors	68.5	25.0
#58	new	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	Politicians	65.8	3.6
#59	new	John Lennon	United Kingdom	Musicians	61.5	1.0
#60	new	George Washington	—	Politicians	64.3	2.6
#61	new	Socrates Writing	Brazil	Academics	67.5	10.0
#62	new	Diana, Princess of Wales	United Kingdom	Business Professionals	59.6	0.3
#63	new	Fidel Castro	—	Politicians	67.4	6.6
#64	new	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Historical Figures	58.7	0.0
#65	new	Homer Writing	—	Writers	66.7	7.1
#66	new	Pablo Escobar	—	Business Professionals	58.6	0.0
#67	new	Martin Luther Acting	—	Religious Figures	57.7	0.0
#68	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	—	Historical Figures	67.2	10.6
#69	new	Suleiman the Magnificent	Turkey	Politicians	57.8	0.0
#70	new	Thomas Jefferson Acting	United States	Politicians	60.8	1.5
#71	new	John F. Kennedy Jr.	United States	Lawyers	67.4	15.0
#72	new	Mother Teresa Acting	—	Activists	66.3	8.1
#73	new	Elizabeth Taylor	United Kingdom	Actors	58.5	0.3
#74	new	Val Kilmer	United States	Actors	57.8	0.0
#75	new	Aristotle Directing	—	Academics	66.3	10.0
#76	new	Marie Antoinette	France	Business Professionals	58.0	0.2
#77	new	Ted Bundy	United States	Historical Figures	66.6	10.8
#78	new	Ronald Reagan	United States	Politicians	57.4	0.0
#79	new	David Bowie	United Kingdom	Musicians	63.6	3.4
#80	new	Edward VIII	United Kingdom	Politicians	57.1	0.0
#81	new	George V	United Kingdom	Politicians	57.0	0.0
#82	new	Plato Writing	—	Academics	56.3	0.0
#83	new	Louis XVI of France	France	Politicians	56.6	0.3
#84	new	Audrey Hepburn	United Kingdom	Actors	57.5	0.5
#85	new	Niccolò Machiavelli Writing	—	Academics	65.1	10.4
#86	new	Timur	—	Historical Figures	57.9	1.0
#87	new	Antonio Vivaldi Sound	—	Musicians	84.9	16.4
#88	new	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	United States	Business Professionals	57.8	1.0
#89	new	Galileo Galilei Crew	—	Scientists	55.1	0.0
#90	new	Pope Benedict XVI Acting	Germany	Religious Figures	58.3	1.6
#91	new	Paul the Apostle	—	Religious Figures	55.2	0.0
#92	new	Thomas Edison Lighting	United States	Scientists	57.0	1.1
#93	new	Whitney Houston	United States	Musicians	57.5	1.0
#94	new	Edgar Allan Poe Writing	United States	Writers	64.1	10.0
#95	new	Franz Joseph I of Austria Acting	—	Politicians	54.5	0.0
#96	new	Johann Sebastian Bach Sound	—	Musicians	80.5	0.0
#97	new	Charles Darwin Acting	—	Scientists	54.0	0.0
#98	new	Benito Mussolini	—	Politicians	54.8	0.0
#99	new	George Harrison	United Kingdom	Musicians	64.3	11.2
#100	new	Genghis Khan	—	Historical Figures	57.9	1.6