← 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 Spanish books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rubén Darío10 - 2
Lope de Vega8.7 - 3
Fidel Castro6.8 - 4
John of God6.2 - 5
Francis Xavier6.2 - 6
Andrés Bello4.9 - 7
Simón Bolívar4.7 - 8
Gonzalo Pizarro4.5 - 9
Antonio Machado3.6 - 10
Porfirio Díaz3.6 - 11
Christopher Columbus3.4 - 12
John of the Cross3.3 - 13
Hernán Cortés3.3 - 14
Miguel de Unamuno3.3 - 15
Venustiano Carranza3.0 - 16
Benito Juárez3.0 - 17
Juan Ramón Jiménez2.8 - 18
José de San Martín2.5 - 19
Bartolomé Mitre2.4 - 20Juan Fernández2.2
- 21
Gabriela Mistral2.2 - 22
Bartolomé de las Casas2.1 - 23
Francisco I. Madero2.1 - 24
Francisco Pizarro2.0 - 25
Teresa of Ávila1.9
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1960s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
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 - 10Fidel 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.