← 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 Hebrew books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Rav Ashi12 - 2
Haggai10 - 3
Ahad Ha'am8.9 - 4Saadia Gaon7.6
- 5Simeon ben Gamliel II7.3
- 6
Sabbatai Zevi7.2 - 7
Josephus6.5 - 8
Paul the Apostle5.1 - 9
Johanan ben Zakai5.0 - 10
Habakkuk4.7 - 11
Moshe Dayan4.1 - 12Nathan the Babylonian3.9
- 13Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg3.3
- 14
Hai Gaon3.3 - 15
Menachem Begin3.0 - 16
Levi Eshkol3.0 - 17
Moshe Sharett2.8 - 18Samuel ibn Naghrillah2.7
- 19
Hillel the Elder2.5 - 20Yanai2.5
- 21
Judas Maccabeus2.5 - 22
Shimon bar Yochai2.3 - 23Simeon ben Zoma2.1
- 24
Rabbeinu Tam1.8 - 25
Baal Shem Tov1.7
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.