← 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 Russian books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Vladimir Lenin2.7 - 2
Leo Tolstoy2.3 - 3
Peter the Great1.4 - 4
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1.4 - 5
Boris Godunov1.2 - 6
Maxim Gorky1.1 - 7
Ivan I of Tver0.98 - 8
Alexander I of Russia0.98 - 9
Nikita Khrushchev0.96 - 10
Nicholas I of Russia0.94 - 11
Ivan the Terrible0.90 - 12
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia0.85 - 13
Sergo Ordzhonikidze0.82 - 14
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia0.79 - 15
Maria Feodorovna0.76 - 16
Alexander II of Russia0.73 - 17
Alexander Blok0.73 - 18
Alexis of Russia0.70 - 19
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia0.70 - 20
Vladimir Mayakovsky0.63 - 21
Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow0.61 - 22
Nicholas II of Russia0.60 - 23
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia0.58 - 24
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia0.57 - 25
Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolensk0.55
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.