← 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 Chinese books during the 1960s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Mao Zedong1260 - 2
Liu Shaoqi94 - 3
Lu Xun71 - 4
Zhou Enlai65 - 5
Sun Yat-sen65 - 6
Lin Biao56 - 7
Confucius21 - 8
Jiang Qing19 - 9
Zhuang Zhou8.5 - 10
Zhu De8.2 - 11
Laozi8.0 - 12
Yuan Shikai7.5 - 13Gao Ming5.2
- 14
Deng Xiaoping4.1 - 15
Kang Youwei4.0 - 16
Soong Ching-ling3.1 - 17
Hai Rui2.8 - 18
Li Hongzhang2.4 - 19
Cao Cao2.2 - 20
Du Fu2.1 - 21
Cao Xueqin1.7 - 22
Wu Zetian1.6 - 23
Li Bai1.4 - 24
Hong Xiuquan1.4 - 25
Zhuge Liang1.2
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.