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2002
Whose working lives fell in 2002. 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 2002, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicole Kidman3 decades - 2
Pamela Anderson3 decades - 3
Julia Roberts3 decades - 4
Jason Statham0 decades - 5
Philip Seymour Hoffman2 decades - 6
Vin Diesel2 decades - 7
Jürgen Klopp2 decades - 8
Mark Ruffalo0 decades - 9
María Corina Machado1 decades - 10
R. Kellynot measured- - 11
Will Ferrell2 decades - 12
Laura Dern2 decades - 13
Benicio del Toro2 decades - 14
Jamie Foxx2 decades - 15
Akshay Kumarnot measured- - 16
Anna Nicole Smith2 decades - 17
Gavin Newsom2 decades - 18
Roberto Baggio3 decades - 19
Jimmy Kimmel2 decades - 20
Boris Becker4 decades - 21
Steve Zahn0 decades - 22
Matt LeBlanc0 decades - 23
Liev Schreiber1 decades - 24
Guy Pearce1 decades - 25
Mark Rutte0 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.