← 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 Hebrew books during the 2000s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Reuven Rivlin30 - 2
Ahad Ha'am13 - 3
Rav Ashi11 - 4
Shimon Peres9.0 - 5
Haggai9.0 - 6
Yitzhak Rabin8.6 - 7
Menachem Begin8.4 - 8
Moshe Dayan7.8 - 9
Ariel Sharon7.0 - 10
Paul the Apostle6.9 - 11
Ehud Barak6.0 - 12
Golda Meir5.7 - 13
Josephus5.6 - 14
Benjamin Netanyahu5.2 - 15
Moshe Sharett4.6 - 16Saadia Gaon4.6
- 17Simeon ben Gamliel II4.4
- 18
Moses Sofer4.3 - 19
Ehud Olmert4.2 - 20Nathan the Babylonian4.2
- 21
Sabbatai Zevi4.1 - 22
Johanan ben Zakai3.9 - 23
Shimon bar Yochai3.9 - 24
Levi Eshkol3.9 - 25
Rabbeinu Tam3.5
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 2000s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
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
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.