← Fame through time1950-1959
The 1950s
Whose names filled the books of the 1950s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in Spanish books during the 1950s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Eva Perón10 - 2
Lope de Vega7.2 - 3
John of God6.8 - 4
Francis Xavier6.3 - 5
Rubén Darío6.0 - 6
Christopher Columbus5.1 - 7
Simón Bolívar4.7 - 8
Andrés Bello4.5 - 9
Porfirio Díaz3.9 - 10
José de San Martín3.8 - 11
John of the Cross3.7 - 12
Hernán Cortés3.6 - 13Juan Fernández2.7
- 14
Gabriela Mistral2.6 - 15
Antonio Machado2.6 - 16
Miguel de Unamuno2.5 - 17
Gonzalo Pizarro2.4 - 18
Juan Ramón Jiménez2.3 - 19
Bartolomé de las Casas2.2 - 20
Francisco Pizarro2.1 - 21
Bartolomé Mitre2.1 - 22
Miguel de Cervantes2.0 - 23
Teresa of Ávila2.0 - 24
Luis de León1.9 - 25
Ignatius of Loyola1.8
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1950s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John F. Kennedy11 decades - 2
Jimmy Carter7 decades - 3
Pope John Paul II5 decades - 4
George H. W. Bush2 decades - 5
Nelson Mandela6 decades - 6
Judy Garland9 decades - 7
Marlon Brando7 decades - 8
Frank Sinatra8 decades - 9
Indira Gandhi7 decades - 10
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh0 decades - 11
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi4 decades - 12
Henry Kissinger7 decades - 13
Christopher Lee6 decades - 14
Roald Dahl6 decades - 15
Isaac Asimov7 decades - 16
Ingrid Bergman8 decades - 17
James Dean9 decades - 18
Richard Feynman4 decades - 19
Nicolae Ceaușescunot measured- - 20
Orson Welles9 decades - 21
Lee Kuan Yew7 decades - 22
Kirk Douglas8 decades - 23Eva Perón8 decades
- 24
Édith Piaf6 decades - 25
Charles Bronson5 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.