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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 - 26
Martin Lawrence0 decades - 27
Michael Bay2 decades - 28
John C. Reilly0 decades - 29
Vinnie Jones0 decades - 30
Kevin Jamesnot measured- - 31
Scottie Pippen3 decades - 32
Andy Dick0 decades - 33
Shamil Basayev3 decades - 34
Alan Cumming1 decades - 35
Marlee Matlin1 decades - 36
Mobynot measured- - 37
Ange Postecoglou0 decades - 38
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed2 decades - 39
Jeffrey Wright0 decades - 40
Connie Nielsen0 decades - 41
Peter Krause0 decades - 42
Kyra Sedgwick0 decades - 43
Michael Dell3 decades - 44
Rob Zombie1 decades - 45
Shawn Michaels1 decades - 46
Krist Novoselic0 decades - 47
Kristin Davis0 decades - 48
Trent Reznor1 decades - 49
Kyle Chandler0 decades - 50
Laurent Blanc3 decades - 51
Bryan Singer2 decades - 52
Gong Linot measured- - 53Chris Penn0 decades
- 54
Rachida Dati2 decades - 55
Linda Evangelista0 decades - 56
Pam Bondinot measured- - 57
Cheryl Hinesnot measured- - 58
Reggie Miller2 decades - 59
Kevin McCarthynot measured- - 60
Frank Grillonot measured- - 61
Carrot Top2 decades - 62
Julia Ormond0 decades - 63
Waris Dirie0 decades - 64
Peter Greenenot measured- - 65
Mario Lemieux3 decades - 66
Brett Kavanaugh1 decades - 67
Gheorghe Hagi0 decades - 68
Lennox Lewis2 decades - 69
Ryan Murphy1 decades - 70
Nicholas Sparks2 decades - 71
Steve Coogannot measured- - 72
Rodney Kingnot measured- - 73
David Robinsonnot measured- - 74
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japannot measured- - 75
Katarina Witt4 decades - 76
Farah Khan0 decades - 77
Khaled Hosseini1 decades - 78
Hans-Dieter Flick0 decades - 79
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburghnot measured- - 80
Sherilyn Fenn0 decades - 81
Cem Özdemir3 decades - 82
Olexander Syrskyinot measured- - 83
Piers Morgannot measured- - 84
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco0 decades - 85
Steve Kerrnot measured- - 86
Jon Cryernot measured- - 87Mohammed Deif0 decades
- 88
Joely Richardsonnot measured- - 89
José Luis Chilavert1 decades - 90
Paul W. S. Andersonnot measured- - 91
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus0 decades - 92
David Wenham0 decades - 93
Jeremy Pivennot measured- - 94
Uwe Bollnot measured- - 95
JB Pritzkernot measured- - 96
Antoine Fuquanot measured- - 97
Jean Castexnot measured- - 98
Mick Foleynot measured- - 99
Zakir Naik0 decades - 100
Amanda Tapping0 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.