← 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 French books during the 1970s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Voltaire28 - 2
Louis XIV of France13 - 3
Molière11 - 4
Stendhal11 - 5
Montesquieu7.3 - 6
Victor Hugo6.2 - 7
Louis XV of France5.5 - 8
Louis XVI of France5.3 - 9
François Fénelon4.7 - 10
Pierre de Marivaux3.4 - 11
George Sand3.2 - 12
Napoleon III3.2 - 13
Joan of Arc3.1 - 14
André Gide2.9 - 15
Léon Blum2.5 - 16
Georges Pompidou2.4 - 17
François Mitterrand2.2 - 18
Marcel Proust2.2 - 19
Louis XVIII of France2.2 - 20
Paul Valéry2.1 - 21
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing2.0 - 22
Jules Verne1.9 - 23
André Malraux1.9 - 24
Romain Rolland1.7 - 25
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor1.7
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.