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1993
Whose working lives fell in 1993. 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 1993, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Michael Jackson5 decades - 2
Madonna7 decades - 3
Ursula von der Leyen2 decades - 4
Gary Oldman3 decades - 5
Michelle Pfeiffer4 decades - 6
Olaf Scholz2 decades - 7
Tim Burton3 decades - 8
Sharon Stone3 decades - 9
Alec Baldwin3 decades - 10
Andrea Bocelli3 decades - 11
Ellen DeGeneres3 decades - 12
Princenot measured- - 13
Jamie Lee Curtis4 decades - 14
Viggo Mortensen2 decades - 15
Albert II, Prince of Monaco1 decades - 16
Kate Bush3 decades - 17
Annette Bening2 decades - 18
Holly Hunter3 decades - 19
Kevin Bacon3 decades - 20
Tim Robbins3 decades - 21
Angela Bassett3 decades - 22
Andie MacDowell2 decades - 23
River Phoenix3 decades - 24
Jamal Khashoggi0 decades - 25
Bruce Dickinson0 decades - 26
Neil deGrasse Tyson1 decades - 27
Brandon Lee2 decades - 28
Droupadi Murmunot measured- - 29
Bruce Campbell7 decades - 30
Robert Patrick6 decades - 31
Giancarlo Esposito0 decades - 32
Wong Kar-wai3 decades - 33
Chris Columbus2 decades - 34
Madeleine Stowe1 decades - 35
Joan Jett3 decades - 36
Anna Politkovskaya2 decades - 37
Ali Larijani0 decades - 38
Ice-Tnot measured- - 39
Marie Fredrikssonnot measured- - 40
Lyudmila Putinanot measured- - 41
Miranda Richardson0 decades - 42
Jennifer Tillynot measured- - 43
Hugo Sánchez0 decades - 44
Peter Capaldinot measured- - 45
Fiona Shawnot measured- - 46
Mehmet Ali Ağca0 decades - 47
Tommy Lister Jr.not measured- - 48
Éric Zemmournot measured- - 49
Javier Aguirrenot measured- - 50
Belinda Carlislenot measured- - 51
Drew Careynot measured- - 52
Sergey Sobyaninnot measured- - 53
Kais Saiednot measured- - 54
Dražen Petrović0 decades - 55
Christiane Amanpour2 decades - 56
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonionot measured- - 57
Patricia Heatonnot measured- - 58
Mark Cubannot measured- - 59
Jennifer Saundersnot measured- - 60
Steve Guttenbergnot measured- - 61
Kevin Sorbonot measured- - 62
Julian Sandsnot measured- - 63
Lambert Wilsonnot measured- - 64
Charlie Kaufmannot measured- - 65
Amrita Singhnot measured- - 66
Avigdor Lieberman2 decades - 67
Lorenzo Lamasnot measured- - 68
Megan Mullallynot measured- - 69
Sergei Krikalevnot measured- - 70
Divya Bhartinot measured- - 71
David Koreshnot measured- - 72
Irvine Welsh3 decades - 73
Linda Fiorentinonot measured- - 74
Giuseppe Baresinot measured- - 75
Marg Helgenbergernot measured- - 76
Cornelia Funkenot measured- - 77
Kathy Hochulnot measured- - 78
Bebe Neuwirthnot measured- - 79
Janez Janša0 decades - 80
Gary Numannot measured- - 81
Gian Piero Gasperininot measured- - 82
David O. Russellnot measured- - 83
Jeff Foxworthynot measured- - 84
Linda Kozlowskinot measured- - 85
Tim Kainenot measured- - 86
Nikki Sixxnot measured- - 87
John Mahama0 decades - 88
Yoav Gallantnot measured- - 89
Ibrahim Iskandar of Johornot measured- - 90
Matt Frewernot measured- - 91
Alar Karisnot measured- - 92
Jello Biafranot measured- - 93
Rik Mayallnot measured- - 94
Ahmad Vahidinot measured- - 95
Euronymousnot measured- - 96
Simon Le Bonnot measured- - 97
Maurice LaMarchenot measured- - 98
Bernardo Arévalo de Leónnot measured- - 99
Alain Chabatnot measured- - 100
Keenen Ivory Wayansnot 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.