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2003
Whose working lives fell in 2003. 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 2003, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Will Smith3 decades - 2
Celine Dion1 decades - 3
Hugh Jackman2 decades - 4
Daniel Craig2 decades - 5
Kylie Minogue3 decades - 6
Gillian Anderson3 decades - 7
Naomi Watts2 decades - 8
Brendan Fraser1 decades - 9
Owen Wilsonnot measured- - 10
Josh Brolin0 decades - 11
Marine Le Pen2 decades - 12
Lucy Liu1 decades - 13
Didier Deschamps3 decades - 14
Patricia Arquette2 decades - 15
Sam Rockwell0 decades - 16
Guy Ritchie2 decades - 17
Lisa Marie Presley0 decades - 18
Eric Bana0 decades - 19
Ashley Judd2 decades - 20
Paolo Maldini3 decades - 21
Terry Crews0 decades - 22
Jim Caviezel0 decades - 23
Cuba Gooding Jr.0 decades - 24
Lucy Lawless0 decades - 25
Ajay Devgn0 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.