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2008
Whose working lives fell in 2008. 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 2008, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Heath Ledger2 decades - 2
Paul Walkernot measured- - 3
Adrien Brody1 decades - 4
Kate Beckinsale1 decades - 5
Heidi Klum2 decades - 6
Seth MacFarlane0 decades - 7
Sachin Tendulkar3 decades - 8
Sergey Brin2 decades - 9
Banksy2 decades - 10
Monica Lewinsky3 decades - 11
Larry Page2 decades - 12
Vera Farmiga0 decades - 13
Jim Parsonsnot measured- - 14
James Marsden0 decades - 15
Lena Headey0 decades - 16
Neil Patrick Harris1 decades - 17
Akon2 decades - 18
Neve Campbell0 decades - 19
Monica Seles2 decades - 20
Juliette Lewis2 decades - 21
George Floydnot measured- - 22
Pharrell Williams1 decades - 23
Tyra Banks2 decades - 24
Thomas Tuchel1 decades - 25
Kristen Wiig0 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.