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2001
Whose working lives fell in 2001. 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 2001, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Adam Sandler2 decades - 2
Halle Berry3 decades - 3
Mike Tyson4 decades - 4
Janet Jackson4 decades - 5
Salma Hayek2 decades - 6
Helena Bonham Carter3 decades - 7
Sinéad O'Connor0 decades - 8
Aaliyah2 decades - 9
Kiefer Sutherland3 decades - 10
Robin Wright3 decades - 11
Cindy Crawford3 decades - 12
J. J. Abrams1 decades - 13
John Cusack3 decades - 14
David Cameron4 decades - 15
Gordon Ramsay2 decades - 16
Eric Cantona2 decades - 17
Patrick Dempsey0 decades - 18
David Schwimmer0 decades - 19
Sophie Marceau4 decades - 20
Jon Favreau1 decades - 21
Grigori Perelman1 decades - 22
Vincent Cassel3 decades - 23
Mikhail Mishustin0 decades - 24
George Weah0 decades - 25
Roman Abramovich2 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.