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2005
Whose working lives fell in 2005. 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 2005, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Melania Trump1 decades - 2
Christopher Nolan2 decades - 3
Matt Damon3 decades - 4
Uma Thurman3 decades - 5
Andy Burnhamnot measured- - 6
Rachel Weisz1 decades - 7
Jennifer Connelly1 decades - 8
Ethan Hawke3 decades - 9
Gianni Infantinonot measured- - 10
Javier Mileinot measured- - 11
Andre Agassi3 decades - 12
Luis Enriquenot measured- - 13
Tina Fey2 decades - 14
Simon Pegg0 decades - 15
Melissa McCarthy0 decades - 16
Paul Thomas Anderson2 decades - 17
M. Night Shyamalan2 decades - 18
Vince Vaughn1 decades - 19
Queen Latifah3 decades - 20
Ted Cruz1 decades - 21
Diego Simeone0 decades - 22
Saif Ali Khan0 decades - 23
Sadiq Khannot measured- - 24
Naomi Campbell3 decades - 25
Alan Shearer1 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.