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Top people for #20th Century

The most-searched, most-followed people in 20th Century. 1,920 tracked, ranked by the public attention they actually command — search demand, Wikipedia readership, news coverage, and social reach, refreshed daily.

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Andrei Chikatilo

The people the world most associates with 20th Century right now, concentrated in United States, Germany, United Kingdom — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

#20th CenturyTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Andrei Chikatilo	—	Journalists	68.1	5.4
#2	—	Yevgeny Prigozhin	—	Founders	66.5	3.7
#3	—	Lina Medina	—	Actors	66.3	5.0
#4	—	Gavrilo Princip	—	Designers	66.0	0.0
#5	—	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	—	Historical Figures	65.7	0.4
#6	—	Boris Spassky	—	Athletes	64.2	3.7
#7	—	Ip Man	China	Business Professionals	63.9	1.6
#8	—	Ratko Mladić	—	Journalists	63.5	1.4
#9	—	Manfred von Richthofen	—	Business Professionals	63.2	8.1
#10	—	Caroline, Princess of Hanover	—	Business Professionals	63.1	15.0
#11	—	José Raúl Capablanca	—	Writers	63.0	0.0
#12	—	Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia	—	Business Professionals	63.0	0.0
#13	—	Baba Vanga	—	Business Professionals	62.7	14.0
#14	—	Joachim Peiper	Germany	Journalists	61.9	5.5
#15	—	Salvatore Riina	Italy	Business Professionals	61.2	3.2
#16	—	Fawzia Fuad of Egypt	Egypt	Business Professionals	61.2	10.5
#17	—	Paavo Nurmi	—	Athletes	61.0	15.8
#18	—	Simo Häyhä	—	Business Professionals	60.9	0.6
#19	—	Lucky Luciano	Italy	Business Professionals	60.8	0.0
#20	—	Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark	—	Writers	60.7	0.0
#21	—	Dietrich von Choltitz	—	Business Professionals	60.5	16.7
#22	—	Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg	United Kingdom	Business Professionals	60.5	5.8
#23	—	Andrey Vlasov	—	Business Professionals	60.2	2.5
#24	—	Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia	—	Business Professionals	60.1	0.6
#25	—	Carlos the Jackal	—	Journalists	60.0	1.8
#26	—	Geli Raubal	Austria	Actors	58.9	1.6
#27	—	Günther von Kluge	—	Business Professionals	58.7	2.5
#28	—	Tamam Shud case	—	Business Professionals	58.6	1.7
#29	—	Stanislav Petrov	—	Journalists	58.3	1.3
#30	—	Yakov Dzhugashvili	—	Journalists	58.2	0.0
#31	—	Friedrich Olbricht	Germany	Journalists	58.0	15.0
#32	—	Walther von Reichenau	Germany	Business Professionals	57.8	2.3
#33	1	Abebe Bikila	—	Athletes	57.5	2.5
#34	1	Prince Claus of the Netherlands	Germany	Writers	57.5	0.0
#35	—	Vasily Arkhipov	—	Journalists	57.4	1.0
#36	—	Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia	—	Business Professionals	57.4	0.0
#37	—	Michael Wittmann	Germany	Journalists	56.7	0.0
#38	—	Henning von Tresckow	Germany	Journalists	56.5	0.0
#39	—	Erwin von Witzleben	—	Journalists	56.3	0.0
#40	—	Emil Zátopek	—	Athletes	56.1	0.0
#41	—	Queen Anne-Marie of Greece	—	Musicians	55.8	0.0
#42	—	Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen	—	Business Professionals	55.7	0.0
#43	—	Queen Anne of Romania	France	Business Professionals	54.1	0.0
#44	—	Vladimir Putin	—	Politicians	98.4	7.1
#45	—	Hugo Chávez	—	Politicians	89.6	10.0
#46	—	Lech Wałęsa	—	Politicians	84.8	2.3
#47	—	Osama bin Laden	—	Business Professionals	83.8	0.7
#48	—	Shavkat Mirziyoyev	—	Politicians	83.3	16.5
#49	—	Bongbong Marcos	—	Politicians	83.1	4.8
#50	—	Nikita Khrushchev	—	Politicians	81.7	0.0
#51	—	Anne Frank	Germany	Writers	81.3	0.0
#52	—	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	—	Academics	80.9	5.3
#53	—	Enrico Fermi	Italy	Scientists	80.8	0.0
#54	—	Nursultan Nazarbayev	—	Politicians	80.4	10.7
#55	—	Yasser Arafat	Egypt	Politicians	80.0	0.0
#56	—	Boris Yeltsin	—	Politicians	79.8	0.0
#57	—	Robert Mugabe	—	Politicians	79.7	10.0
#58	—	Golda Meir	Israel	Politicians	79.0	10.1
#59	—	Benazir Bhutto	—	Politicians	77.5	0.2
#60	—	Nicolás Maduro	—	Writers	77.4	1.4
#61	—	Ilham Aliyev	—	Politicians	76.5	1.4
#62	—	Pope Pius XII	Italy	Religious Figures	76.3	11.6
#63	—	Chiang Kai-shek	China	Politicians	76.2	0.6
#64	—	David Ben-Gurion	—	Politicians	76.0	1.8
#65	—	Ariel Sharon	Israel	Politicians	75.2	12.1
#66	—	Nicolae Ceaușescu	—	Politicians	75.1	7.3
#67	—	Raúl Castro	—	Politicians	75.1	20.0
#68	—	Yuri Andropov	—	Politicians	74.9	16.9
#69	—	Emomali Rahmon	—	Politicians	74.8	1.1
#70	—	Patrice Lumumba	—	Designers	74.5	20.6
#71	—	Pol Pot	—	Politicians	73.8	0.0
#72	—	Paul Biya	—	Politicians	73.4	0.0
#73	—	Srinivasa Ramanujan	India	Academics	73.2	6.2
#74	—	Georgy Zhukov	—	Business Professionals	73.1	10.0
#75	—	Abdullah of Saudi Arabia	—	Politicians	73.0	15.3
#76	—	José Mujica	—	Politicians	72.7	7.1
#77	—	Augusto Pinochet	—	Journalists	72.3	1.1
#78	—	Hermann Göring	Germany	Politicians	72.2	0.0
#79	—	Slobodan Milošević	—	Politicians	72.0	15.9
#80	—	Bobby Fischer	United States	Writers	71.8	0.2
#81	—	Enver Hoxha	—	Politicians	71.6	13.6
#82	—	Heinrich Himmler	Germany	Politicians	71.3	0.0
#83	—	Jiang Zemin	China	Politicians	71.0	10.4
#84	—	Konstantin Chernenko	—	Politicians	70.8	15.3
#85	—	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	—	Politicians	70.3	11.6
#86	—	Idi Amin	—	Politicians	70.2	0.5
#87	1	Eduard Shevardnadze	—	Politicians	70.2	15.0
#88	1	Vyacheslav Molotov	—	Politicians	70.2	12.6
#89	—	Pablo Escobar	—	Politicians	69.6	0.0
#90	—	Corazon Aquino	—	Politicians	69.3	2.1
#91	—	Martti Ahtisaari	—	Politicians	69.2	15.0
#92	—	Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands	Netherlands	Historical Figures	69.2	0.8
#93	—	Fulgencio Batista	—	Politicians	69.1	3.4
#94	—	Sergei Prokofiev	—	Musicians	68.8	15.0
#95	—	Hassan Nasrallah	—	Politicians	68.6	13.8
#96	—	Omar al-Bashir	—	Politicians	68.2	13.1
#97	—	Hassanal Bolkiah	—	Politicians	68.0	5.2
#98	—	Hamid Karzai	—	Politicians	67.7	0.0
#99	—	Leonid Kuchma	—	Politicians	67.5	15.8
#100	—	Hafez al-Assad	—	Politicians	67.5	3.2

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