← Fame through time2000-2009
The 2000s
Whose names filled the books of the 2000s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in Italian books during the 2000s, whenever they lived.
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Caravaggio8.7 - 2
Giotto5.6 - 3
Benedetto Croce4.6 - 4
Antonio da Correggio4.4 - 5
Silvio Berlusconi3.5 - 6
Leonardo da Vinci3.5 - 7
Giordano Bruno3.4 - 8
Dante Alighieri3.3 - 9
Donatello2.9 - 10
Leon Battista Alberti2.8 - 11
Donato Bramante2.7 - 12
Francis of Assisi2.6 - 13
Charles Borromeo2.6 - 14
Giacomo Leopardi2.3 - 15
Aldo Moro2.3 - 16
Giuseppe Verdi2.2 - 17
Pietro Perugino2.1 - 18
Italo Calvino2.0 - 19
Torquato Tasso2.0 - 20
Pier Paolo Pasolini2.0 - 21
Tintoretto1.9 - 22
Masaccio1.9 - 23
Petrarch1.9 - 24
Piero della Francesca1.8 - 25
Luigi Einaudi1.8
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 2000s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Elon Musk1 decades - 2
Leonardo DiCaprio3 decades - 3
Justin Trudeau1 decades - 4
Melania Trump1 decades - 5
Nicole Kidman3 decades - 6
Eminem2 decades - 7
Zinedine Zidane3 decades - 8
Christopher Nolan2 decades - 9
Matt Damon3 decades - 10
Jennifer Lopez3 decades - 11
Dwayne Johnson1 decades - 12
Michael Schumacher3 decades - 13
Jennifer Aniston2 decades - 14
Heath Ledger2 decades - 15
Pamela Anderson3 decades - 16
Ben Affleck2 decades - 17
Julia Roberts3 decades - 18
Cameron Diaz3 decades - 19
Gwyneth Paltrow3 decades - 20
Will Smith3 decades - 21
Jason Statham0 decades - 22
Mark Carney1 decades - 23
Celine Dion1 decades - 24
Winona Ryder3 decades - 25
Adam Sandler2 decades - 26
Mariah Carey3 decades - 27
Mark Wahlberg2 decades - 28
Matthew McConaughey2 decades - 29
J. K. Rowling2 decades - 30
Uma Thurman3 decades - 31
Hugh Jackman2 decades - 32
Robert Downey Jr.2 decades - 33
Jason Bateman0 decades - 34
Andy Burnhamnot measured- - 35
Daniel Craig2 decades - 36
Marco Rubio1 decades - 37
Penélope Cruz3 decades - 38
Shah Rukh Khan2 decades - 39
Charlie Sheen3 decades - 40
Robbie Williams2 decades - 41
Bashar al-Assad2 decades - 42
Halle Berry3 decades - 43
Christian Bale2 decades - 44
Cate Blanchett2 decades - 45
Mike Tyson4 decades - 46
Pep Guardiola1 decades - 47
Catherine Zeta-Jones2 decades - 48
Kylie Minogue3 decades - 49
Janet Jackson4 decades - 50
Snoop Dogg2 decades - 51
Gillian Anderson3 decades - 52
Shaquille O'Neal3 decades - 53
Salma Hayek2 decades - 54
Naomi Watts2 decades - 55
Renée Zellweger0 decades - 56
Philip Seymour Hoffman2 decades - 57
Javier Bardem3 decades - 58
Paul Walkernot measured- - 59
Jeremy Renner0 decades - 60
Joaquin Phoenix2 decades - 61
Rachel Weisz1 decades - 62
Jennifer Connelly1 decades - 63
Jared Leto0 decades - 64
Ben Stiller3 decades - 65
Mojtaba Khamenei0 decades - 66
Ethan Hawke3 decades - 67
Adrien Brody1 decades - 68
Matthew Perrynot measured- - 69
Jennifer Garner1 decades - 70
Josh Duhamel0 decades - 71
Vin Diesel2 decades - 72
Gianni Infantinonot measured- - 73
Helena Bonham Carter3 decades - 74
Sean Combs1 decades - 75
Brendan Fraser1 decades - 76
Jack Black2 decades - 77
Javier Mileinot measured- - 78
Ewan McGregor3 decades - 79
Idris Elba1 decades - 80
Amy Adams1 decades - 81
Salman Khan2 decades - 82
Marilyn Manson3 decades - 83
Jude Law2 decades - 84
Eva Mendes0 decades - 85
Jürgen Klopp2 decades - 86
Kate Beckinsale1 decades - 87
Dmitry Medvedev3 decades - 88
Mark Ruffalo0 decades - 89
Sacha Baron Cohen1 decades - 90
María Corina Machado1 decades - 91
Edward Norton2 decades - 92
Aamir Khan2 decades - 93
Sinéad O'Connor0 decades - 94
Victoria Beckham2 decades - 95
Sofía Vergara2 decades - 96
Andre Agassi3 decades - 97
Jay-Z2 decades - 98
Peter Dinklage0 decades - 99
R. Kellynot measured- - 100
Brittany Murphy0 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.