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1991
Whose working lives fell in 1991. 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 1991, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Tom Hanks4 decades - 2
Mel Gibson4 decades - 3
Carrie Fisher4 decades - 4
Anthony Bourdain1 decades - 5
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad2 decades - 6
Bryan Cranston0 decades - 7
Christoph Waltz1 decades - 8
Martina Navratilova4 decades - 9
Theresa May2 decades - 10
Larry Bird4 decades - 11
Frank-Walter Steinmeier3 decades - 12
Geena Davis3 decades - 13
Danny Boyle2 decades - 14
Tsai Ing-wen1 decades - 15
Steve Ballmer3 decades - 16
Bob Saget0 decades - 17
Lars von Trier3 decades - 18
Björn Borg0 decades - 19
Linda Hamilton3 decades - 20
Christine Lagarde2 decades - 21
David Copperfieldnot measured- - 22
Judith Butler3 decades - 23
Michel Houellebecq3 decades - 24
Andy Garcia3 decades - 25
John Lydon2 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.