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2006
Whose working lives fell in 2006. 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 2006, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Elon Musk1 decades - 2
Justin Trudeau1 decades - 3
Winona Ryder3 decades - 4
Mark Wahlberg2 decades - 5
Marco Rubio1 decades - 6
Pep Guardiola1 decades - 7
Snoop Dogg2 decades - 8
Jeremy Renner0 decades - 9
Jared Leto0 decades - 10
Ewan McGregor3 decades - 11
Sacha Baron Cohen1 decades - 12
Dolores O'Riordan0 decades - 13
Ricky Martin3 decades - 14
Christina Applegate0 decades - 15
Julian Assange1 decades - 16
Amy Poehler1 decades - 17
Sofia Coppola2 decades - 18
Shannen Doherty0 decades - 19
Denise Richards0 decades - 20
Carlo Acutisnot measured- - 21
Lance Armstrong2 decades - 22
David Tennant1 decades - 23
Paul Bettany0 decades - 24
Nathan Fillion0 decades - 25
Sean Astin0 decades - 26
Martin Freemannot measured- - 27
Chris Tucker1 decades - 28
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi1 decades - 29
Jada Pinkett Smith0 decades - 30
Roy Keane2 decades - 31
Pete Sampras3 decades - 32
Michael C. Hall0 decades - 33
Carla Gugino0 decades - 34
Kristi Noem0 decades - 35
Vitali Klitschko2 decades - 36
Charlotte Gainsbourg0 decades - 37
Jon Hamm0 decades - 38
Unai Emery1 decades - 39
Idina Menzel0 decades - 40
Regina King0 decades - 41
Didonot measured- - 42
Dannii Minogue0 decades - 43
David Arquette0 decades - 44
Ke Huy Quan0 decades - 45
Mary J. Blige3 decades - 46
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands1 decades - 47
Luke Wilson1 decades - 48
Tabunot measured- - 49Sandra Oh0 decades
- 50
Noah Wyle0 decades - 51
Justin Theroux0 decades - 52
Jacques Villeneuve2 decades - 53
Joel McHale0 decades - 54
Henrik Larsson0 decades - 55
Claire Forlani0 decades - 56
Walton Goggins0 decades - 57
Johnny Knoxville0 decades - 58
Niko Kovačnot measured- - 59
Missy Elliott2 decades - 60Kim Jong-nam0 decades
- 61
Fabien Barthez2 decades - 62
Natascha McElhone0 decades - 63
Aphex Twin0 decades - 64
Emily Mortimer0 decades - 65
Thalía0 decades - 66
Erykah Badu2 decades - 67
Richard Armitage4 decades - 68
Peter Sarsgaard0 decades - 69
Keegan-Michael Key0 decades - 70
Josh Lucas0 decades - 71
Jeff Gordon3 decades - 72
Matt Stone2 decades - 73
Alan Tudyk0 decades - 74
Kid Rocknot measured- - 75
Ekrem İmamoğlunot measured- - 76
Emma Thomasnot measured- - 77
David Walliams0 decades - 78
Stella McCartney2 decades - 79
David Coulthard0 decades - 80
Method Man2 decades - 81
Luca Guadagnino2 decades - 82
Lea Salonga0 decades - 83
Benedict Wong0 decades - 84
Damian Lewisnot measured- - 85
Dwight Yorke0 decades - 86
MF DOOMnot measured- - 87
Andy Cole0 decades - 88
Sean Bakernot measured- - 89
Joseph Kabila2 decades - 90
Jonathan Davisnot measured- - 91
Elif Şafak0 decades - 92
Alison Krauss1 decades - 93
Bridget Moynahannot measured- - 94
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg1 decades - 95
Chris Hardwick0 decades - 96
Jenna Elfmannot measured- - 97
Rosemarie DeWittnot measured- - 98
Adriana Sklenaříková2 decades - 99
Cara Buononot measured- - 100
Corey Feldmannot measured-
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.