← Fame through time1970-1979
The 1970s
Whose names filled the books of the 1970s - 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 German books during the 1970s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Thomas Mann14 - 2
Karl Marx12 - 3
Novalis7.6 - 4
Friedrich Engels6.9 - 5
Jean Paul6.2 - 6
Heinrich Mann5.0 - 7
Max Weber3.6 - 8
Rosa Luxemburg3.6 - 9
Willy Brandt3.6 - 10
Erich Honecker3.5 - 11
Bertolt Brecht3.2 - 12
Heinrich Heine3.1 - 13
Anna Seghers2.8 - 14
Karl Kraus2.7 - 15
Maria Theresa2.5 - 16
Helmut Schmidt2.5 - 17
Walter Ulbricht2.5 - 18
Friedrich Schlegel2.4 - 19
Adolf Hitler2.4 - 20
Richard Wagner2.4 - 21
Paracelsus2.1 - 22
Martin Luther2.0 - 23
Karl Liebknecht2.0 - 24
Hermann Hesse1.9 - 25
Konrad Adenauer1.9
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1970s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Francisnot measured- - 2
Joe Biden4 decades - 3
Elvis Presley7 decades - 4
Bob Dylan6 decades - 5
Ali Khamenei4 decades - 6
Bruce Lee5 decades - 7
Stephen Hawking4 decades - 8
John Lennon6 decades - 9
Muhammad Ali8 decades - 10
Saddam Hussein6 decades - 11
Paul McCartney6 decades - 12
Muammar Gaddafi2 decades - 13
Robert De Niro5 decades - 14
Woody Allen6 decades - 15
Pelé3 decades - 16
Al Pacino5 decades - 17
Jack Nicholson5 decades - 18
Bernie Sanders3 decades - 19
Harrison Ford4 decades - 20
Morgan Freeman3 decades - 21
George Harrisonnot measured- - 22
Chuck Norris4 decades - 23
Jane Fonda6 decades - 24
Jimi Hendrix5 decades - 25
14th Dalai Lamanot measured-
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.