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1992
Whose working lives fell in 1992. 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 1992, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Osama bin Laden3 decades - 2
Daniel Day-Lewis3 decades - 3
Hans Zimmer3 decades - 4
Michael Clarke Duncan0 decades - 5
Frances McDormand2 decades - 6
Mukesh Ambani2 decades - 7
Melanie Griffith3 decades - 8
Steve Buscemi3 decades - 9
Dolph Lundgren0 decades - 10
Donald Tusk1 decades - 11
Paul Kagame3 decades - 12
Spike Lee4 decades - 13
Gloria Estefan3 decades - 14
Stephen Fry3 decades - 15
Michael Madsen2 decades - 16
Qasem Soleimani0 decades - 17
Bongbong Marcos0 decades - 18
Steve Harvey2 decades - 19
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow2 decades - 20
John Turturro2 decades - 21
Jackie Shroff0 decades - 22
Shavkat Mirziyoyevnot measured- - 23
Bernie Mac1 decades - 24
Shigeru Ishiba0 decades - 25
Nick Cave3 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.