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1997
Whose working lives fell in 1997. 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 1997, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicolás Maduro2 decades - 2
Tom Cruise4 decades - 3
Keir Starmer0 decades - 4
Jim Carrey3 decades - 5
Demi Moore3 decades - 6
Jodie Foster4 decades - 7
Claudia Sheinbaum1 decades - 8
Ralph Fiennes3 decades - 9
Steve Irwin2 decades - 10
Abdullah II of Jordan0 decades - 11
Jordan Peterson0 decades - 12
Emilio Estevez2 decades - 13
Jon Bon Jovi3 decades - 14
Michelle Yeohnot measured- - 15
Steve Carell1 decades - 16
The Notorious B.I.G.0 decades - 17
David Fincher2 decades - 18
Matthew Broderick4 decades - 19
Axl Rose3 decades - 20
Wesley Snipes3 decades - 21
Antony Blinken0 decades - 22
Jon Stewart2 decades - 23
Yahya Sinwarnot measured- - 24
Anthony Kiedis0 decades - 25
Ruud Gullit0 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.