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1982
Whose working lives fell in 1982. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1982, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger4 decades - 2
David Bowie5 decades - 3
Stephen King8 decades - 4
Hillary Clinton3 decades - 5
Elton John5 decades - 6
Salman Rushdie4 decades - 7
Johan Cruyff4 decades - 8
Paulo Coelho2 decades - 9
Mitt Romney2 decades - 10
Brian May3 decades - 11
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar5 decades - 12
Glenn Close4 decades - 13
Farrah Fawcett5 decades - 14
James Woods6 decades - 15
Rob Reiner5 decades - 16
Sam Neill3 decades - 17
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall0 decades - 18
Tom Clancy4 decades - 19
Carlos Santana6 decades - 20
Iggy Pop3 decades - 21
Richard Dreyfuss5 decades - 22
O. J. Simpson5 decades - 23
Dilma Rousseff1 decades - 24
Kevin Kline4 decades - 25
Takeshi Kitano0 decades - 26
Geoffrey Hinton0 decades - 27
Ali Abdullah Saleh1 decades - 28
Meat Loaf8 decades - 29
Dan Quayle4 decades - 30
John Belushi4 decades - 31
Sheikh Hasina4 decades - 32
Richard Griffiths4 decades - 33
David Letterman4 decades - 34
James Hunt8 decades - 35
France Gall6 decades - 36
Paul Auster3 decades - 37
Florentino Péreznot measured- - 38
Mario Draghi3 decades - 39
Anwar Ibrahim4 decades - 40
Robert Kiyosaki1 decades - 41
Larry David2 decades - 42
Sofia Rotaru4 decades - 43
Edward James Olmos3 decades - 44
Ted Danson4 decades - 45
Jonathan Banks0 decades - 46
Temple Grandinnot measured- - 47
Brian Johnsonnot measured- - 48
James Patterson8 decades - 49
Jonathan Prycenot measured- - 50
Megawati Soekarnoputri1 decades - 51
Ronnie Woodnot measured- - 52
Yukio Hatoyama0 decades - 53
Joe Mantegnanot measured- - 54
Paco de Lucía5 decades - 55
Robert Englundnot measured- - 56
Emmylou Harrisnot measured- - 57
Richard Jenkinsnot measured- - 58
Patrick Dewaerenot measured- - 59
Octavia E. Butler1 decades - 60
Don Henleynot measured- - 61
Danielle Steel4 decades - 62
Gilles Villeneuvenot measured- - 63
Alan Thickenot measured- - 64
Albert Brooksnot measured- - 65
Peter Wellernot measured- - 66
John Mearsheimernot measured- - 67
Wes Studinot measured- - 68
Anne Archernot measured- - 69
Jeff Lynnenot measured- - 70
Ian Andersonnot measured- - 71
Randy Rhoadsnot measured- - 72
Richard Lewisnot measured- - 73
Michio Kaku2 decades - 74
Laurie Anderson4 decades - 75
Mohammad Najibullah0 decades - 76
Gerry Raffertynot measured- - 77
Gyanendra of Nepal0 decades - 78
Pete Maravichnot measured- - 79
Joe Walshnot measured- - 80
Dick Advocaatnot measured- - 81
Harry Redknappnot measured- - 82
Gregg Allmannot measured- - 83
David Mametnot measured- - 84
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo0 decades - 85
Dwight Schultznot measured- - 86
Tostãonot measured- - 87
Greg Lakenot measured- - 88
Roy Hodgsonnot measured- - 89
Mykola Azarov2 decades - 90
Jacki Weavernot measured- - 91
César Gavirianot measured- - 92
Stephen Collinsnot measured- - 93
Melanienot measured- - 94
Kim Campbell3 decades - 95
Michael McKeannot measured- - 96
Mumtaznot measured- - 97
Martha Nussbaumnot measured- - 98
Joe Manchinnot measured- - 99
Jeanne Shaheennot measured- - 100
John Ratzenbergernot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.