← Fame through time2010-2019
The 2010s
Whose names filled the books of the 2010s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in German books during the 2010s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Thomas Mann3.2 - 2
Max Weber2.5 - 3
Martin Luther2.3 - 4
Novalis2.3 - 5
Karl Marx2.1 - 6
Jean Paul2.0 - 7
Adolf Hitler1.6 - 8
Sigmund Freud1.5 - 9
Immanuel Kant1.3 - 10
Angela Merkel1.3 - 11
Friedrich Nietzsche1.2 - 12
Paracelsus1.2 - 13
Richard Wagner1.1 - 14
Jürgen Habermas1.1 - 15
Maria Theresa1.1 - 16
Walter Benjamin1.1 - 17
Helmut Kohl1.1 - 18
Heinrich Heine1.1 - 19
Hannah Arendt1.0 - 20
Willy Brandt1.0 - 21
Helmut Schmidt0.98 - 22
Albert Einstein0.97 - 23
Carl Schmitt0.96 - 24
Friedrich Schiller0.91 - 25
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe0.89
Most read
Who people actually looked up in the 2010s, across every language edition we measure (2015-2019 only - readership is measured from July 2015).
- 1
Donald Trump163.5M - 2
Elizabeth II84.1M - 3
Cristiano Ronaldo75M - 4
Freddie Mercury69.5M - 5
Pablo Escobar68.1M - 6
Lionel Messi62.4M - 7
Elon Musk57M - 8
Stephen Hawking54.9M - 9
Barack Obama54.9M - 10
Dwayne Johnson54.3M - 11Adolf Hitler51M
- 12
Queen Victorianot measured48.6M - 13
Ted Bundy47.4M - 14
Ariana Grande47M - 15
Melania Trump45.3M - 16
Keanu Reeves44.3M - 17
Michael Jackson43.7M - 18
Leonardo DiCaprio42.8M - 19
Vladimir Putin42.4M - 20
LeBron James40.6M - 21
Eminem40.5M - 22
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh40.4M - 23
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon40M - 24
Jason Momoa39.8M - 25
O. J. Simpson39.3M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 2010s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Shakira3 decades - 2
Scarlett Johansson2 decades - 3
Emmanuel Macronnot measured- - 4
Angelina Jolie2 decades - 5
Katy Perry1 decades - 6LeBron James2 decades
- 7
Charlize Theron2 decades - 8
David Beckham2 decades - 9
Natalie Portman2 decades - 10
Kanye West2 decades - 11
Beyoncé2 decades - 12
Chris Pratt0 decades - 13
Giorgia Meloni2 decades - 14
Bradley Cooper1 decades - 15
Zlatan Ibrahimović0 decades - 16
Serena Williams2 decades - 17
Kobe Bryant2 decades - 18
Kim Kardashian1 decades - 19
Mark Zuckerberg1 decades - 20
Ronaldinho3 decades - 21
Amy Winehouse1 decades - 22
John Cena1 decades - 23
Kate Winslet3 decades - 24
Andrew Garfield0 decades - 25
Britney Spears2 decades - 26
Emily Blunt0 decades - 27
Roger Federer2 decades - 28
Priyanka Chopra0 decades - 29
Ryan Gosling1 decades - 30
Jessica Alba2 decades - 31
Ryan Reynolds1 decades - 32
Thierry Henry2 decades - 33
Reese Witherspoon2 decades - 34
Nicki Minaj1 decades - 35
Mila Kunis0 decades - 36
Kirsten Dunst2 decades - 37
Tom Hardy1 decades - 38
Kate Hudson2 decades - 39
Cillian Murphy0 decades - 40
Rachel McAdams0 decades - 41
Chester Bennington0 decades - 42
Tiger Woods3 decades - 43
Chris Hemsworth1 decades - 44
Avicii0 decades - 45
Drew Barrymore3 decades - 46
Zoe Saldañanot measured- - 47
Orlando Bloom2 decades - 48
Chris Evansnot measured- - 49
Macaulay Culkinnot measured- - 50
Avril Lavigne2 decades - 51
50 Centnot measured- - 52
Henry Cavill0 decades - 53
Rishi Sunak0 decades - 54
Jake Gyllenhaal2 decades - 55
Ivanka Trump1 decades - 56Jason Momoa0 decades
- 57
Meghan, Duchess of Sussexnot measured- - 58
Edward Snowden1 decades - 59
Andrew Tate0 decades - 60
Rami Malek0 decades - 61
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussexnot measured- - 62
Xabi Alonso1 decades - 63
Kristen Bell0 decades - 64
Justin Timberlake2 decades - 65
Milla Jovovich0 decades - 66
James Franco1 decades - 67
Olivia Wilde0 decades - 68
Nayib Bukelenot measured- - 69
Paris Hilton2 decades - 70
Ahmed al-Sharaanot measured- - 71
Ashton Kutcher2 decades - 72
Tulsi Gabbard0 decades - 73
Rosamund Pike0 decades - 74
Eva Longoria1 decades - 75
Fernando Alonsonot measured- - 76
Pedro Pascal0 decades - 77
XXXTentacion0 decades - 78
Claire Danes2 decades - 79
Chris Martin3 decades - 80
Tom Hiddleston0 decades - 81
Eva Green2 decades - 82
Volodymyr Zelensky0 decades - 83
Diane Kruger0 decades - 84
Nicole Scherzinger0 decades - 85
Venus Williams2 decades - 86
Liv Tyler1 decades - 87
Benedict Cumberbatch1 decades - 88
Colin Farrell2 decades - 89
Pinknot measured- - 90
Christina Aguilera2 decades - 91
Tobey Maguire1 decades - 92
Lupita Nyong'onot measured- - 93
Christina Riccinot measured- - 94
Michael Fassbender0 decades - 95
Elijah Woodnot measured- - 96
Chadwick Boseman0 decades - 97
Jessica Biel0 decades - 98
Katie Holmes2 decades - 99
Gisele Bündchen0 decades - 100
Alexei Navalny1 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.