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2000
Whose working lives fell in 2000. 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 2000, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mark Carney1 decades - 2
J. K. Rowling2 decades - 3
Robert Downey Jr.2 decades - 4
Shah Rukh Khan2 decades - 5
Charlie Sheen3 decades - 6
Bashar al-Assad2 decades - 7
Ben Stiller3 decades - 8
Salman Khan2 decades - 9
Dmitry Medvedev3 decades - 10
Aamir Khan2 decades - 11
Sarah Jessica Parker3 decades - 12
Björknot measured- - 13
Brooke Shields4 decades - 14
Dr. Dre3 decades - 15
Mads Mikkelsen0 decades - 16
Sunita Williams0 decades - 17
Shania Twain3 decades - 18
Viola Davis0 decades - 19
Diane Lane2 decades - 20
Slashnot measured- - 21
The Undertakernot measured- - 22
Elizabeth Hurley1 decades - 23
Petro Poroshenko2 decades - 24
Sam Mendes3 decades - 25
Chris Rock3 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.