← 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 French books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Voltaire31 - 2
Molière14 - 3
Louis XIV of France14 - 4
Stendhal13 - 5
Victor Hugo8.3 - 6
Montesquieu6.2 - 7
Louis XVI of France6.1 - 8
Louis XV of France5.6 - 9
François Fénelon4.0 - 10
Napoleon III3.7 - 11
Joan of Arc3.6 - 12
George Sand3.3 - 13
Pierre de Marivaux3.2 - 14
Léon Blum2.9 - 15
Louis XVIII of France2.9 - 16
Romain Rolland2.4 - 17
Paul Valéry2.0 - 18
Anatole France1.9 - 19
Marie Antoinette1.8 - 20
Paul Claudel1.8 - 21
André Gide1.8 - 22
Francis de Sales1.8 - 23
Marcel Proust1.7 - 24
Benjamin Constant1.7 - 25
Charles X of France1.7
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 - 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.