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1988
Whose working lives fell in 1988. 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 1988, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Xi Jinping3 decades - 2
Pierce Brosnan3 decades - 3
Tony Blair3 decades - 4
Jeffrey Epstein0 decades - 5
Benazir Bhutto4 decades - 6
Hulk Hogan3 decades - 7
Kim Basinger4 decades - 8
John Malkovich4 decades - 9
Paul Allennot measured- - 10
Cyndi Lauper4 decades - 11
Tim Allen3 decades - 12
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner2 decades - 13
Andrés Manuel López Obrador3 decades - 14
Dominique de Villepin3 decades - 15
Kassym-Jomart Tokayevnot measured- - 16
Brigitte Macron1 decades - 17
Teresa Teng6 decades - 18
Mary Steenburgen3 decades - 19
Isabelle Huppert5 decades - 20
Danny Elfman2 decades - 21
Jean-Michel Basquiat3 decades
- 22
Alfred Molina2 decades - 23
Steve Bannon1 decades - 24
Richard Stallman2 decades - 25
Alan Moore4 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.