← Fame through time1960-1969
The 1960s
Whose names filled the books of the 1960s - 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 German books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
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Karl Marx8.1 - 2
Thomas Mann7.7 - 3
Novalis6.6 - 4
Walter Ulbricht5.4 - 5
Jean Paul4.9 - 6
Friedrich Engels4.2 - 7
Max Weber3.3 - 8
Maria Theresa2.6 - 9
Paracelsus2.5 - 10
Adolf Hitler2.4 - 11
Richard Wagner2.3 - 12
Friedrich Schlegel2.1 - 13
Karl Kraus2.0 - 14
Rosa Luxemburg1.9 - 15
Heinrich Mann1.9 - 16
Gerhart Hauptmann1.9 - 17
Martin Luther1.7 - 18
Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach1.6 - 19
Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow1.6 - 20
Karl Liebknecht1.6 - 21
Bertolt Brecht1.6 - 22
Stefan George1.6 - 23
Tannhäuser1.5 - 24
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor1.5 - 25
Heinrich Heine1.5
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1960s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Elizabeth II8 decades - 2
Marilyn Monroe7 decades - 3
Martin Luther King Jr.6 decades - 4
Pope Benedict XVI2 decades - 5
Che Guevara7 decades - 6
Brigitte Bardot7 decades - 7
Margaret Thatcher6 decades - 8
Clint Eastwood6 decades - 9
Mikhail Gorbachev4 decades - 10
Fidel Castro10 decades - 11
Audrey Hepburn7 decades - 12
Elizabeth Taylor9 decades - 13
Sean Connery6 decades - 14
Warren Buffett3 decades - 15
Stanley Kubrick6 decades - 16
Malcolm X6 decades - 17
Neil Armstrong6 decades - 18
Jane Goodall5 decades - 19
Noam Chomsky6 decades - 20
Yuri Gagarin6 decades - 21
Andy Warhol6 decades - 22
Johnny Cash6 decades - 23
Pol Pot5 decades - 24
Boris Yeltsin4 decades - 25
Sophia Loren7 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.