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1957
Whose working lives fell in 1957. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1957, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Judy Garland9 decades - 2
Christopher Lee6 decades - 3
Yitzhak Rabin9 decades - 4
Stan Lee3 decades - 5
Doris Day8 decades - 6
Pier Paolo Pasolini8 decades - 7
Jack Kerouac6 decades - 8
Ava Gardner8 decades - 9
Betty White7 decades - 10
Carl Reiner6 decades - 11
Kurt Vonnegut6 decades - 12
José Saramago1 decades - 13
Hiroo Onoda0 decades - 14
Norodom Sihanouk8 decades - 15
Bea Arthur0 decades - 16
Jason Robards6 decades - 17
Blake Edwards6 decades - 18
Telly Savalas5 decades - 19
Vittorio Gassman8 decades - 20
Dilip Kumar7 decades - 21
Erich Hartmann4 decades - 22
Boutros Boutros-Ghali3 decades - 23
Lucian Freud4 decades - 24
Franjo Tuđman0 decades - 25
Yvonne De Carlonot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.