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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 - 26
Denis Villeneuve0 decades - 27
David Guetta1 decades - 28
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlandsnot measured- - 29
Peter Thiel1 decades - 30
Mira Sorvino1 decades - 31
Noel Gallagher2 decades - 32
Paul Giamatti1 decades - 33
Irrfan Khan0 decades - 34Hibatullah Akhundzadanot measured-
- 35
Emily Watson1 decades - 36
Philipp Kirkorov3 decades - 37
Madhuri Dixit0 decades - 38
Serj Tankian0 decades - 39
Joe Rogan0 decades - 40
Lauren Graham0 decades - 41
Maria Bellonot measured- - 42
Carrie-Anne Moss0 decades - 43
Massimiliano Allegri1 decades - 44
Faith Hill2 decades - 45
Satya Nadella0 decades - 46
Sam Harrisnot measured- - 47
Carla Bruni3 decades - 48
Chris Benoit0 decades - 49
Louis C.K.not measured- - 50
Paul Gascoigne1 decades - 51
Rhys Ifans0 decades - 52
Tia Carrere0 decades - 53
Layne Staley0 decades - 54
Kanenot measured- - 55
Alexander Karelin2 decades - 56
Toni Braxton2 decades - 57
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje0 decades - 58
Vince Gilligan0 decades - 59
Rufus Sewell0 decades - 60
Dmitry Peskov1 decades - 61
Kazuyoshi Miura0 decades - 62
Jony Ive0 decades - 63
Lisa Bonet0 decades - 64
Mikheil Saakashvili2 decades - 65
Juhi Chawla0 decades - 66
Tom Hollander0 decades - 67
Connie Britton0 decades - 68
Anderson Cooper2 decades - 69
Kate Walsh0 decades - 70
Mathieu Kassovitz3 decades - 71
Markus Söder2 decades - 72
Miranda Otto0 decades - 73
Judd Apatownot measured- - 74
Ty Burrell0 decades - 75
Eddie Guerreronot measured- - 76
Vanilla Ice4 decades - 77
Iván Zamorano3 decades - 78
Matthias Sammer3 decades - 79
Keith Urbannot measured- - 80
Adam Savage0 decades - 81
Mo'Nique0 decades - 82
Mike Portnoy0 decades - 83
Michael Jai Whitenot measured- - 84
Tim McGrawnot measured- - 85
Billy Corgannot measured- - 86
Nestor Carbonell0 decades - 87
Artie Lange0 decades - 88
Phil LaMarr0 decades - 89
Claudio Caniggia1 decades - 90
François Ozon3 decades - 91
Viktor Boutnot measured- - 92
Bajram Begajnot measured- - 93
Lili Taylornot measured- - 94
Daron Acemoğlu0 decades - 95
Aleksander Čeferinnot measured- - 96
Zakk Wyldenot measured- - 97
Fyodor Bondarchuk2 decades - 98
Michael Giacchino0 decades - 99
Courtney Thorne-Smithnot measured- - 100
Carlos Mencia0 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.