← 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 English books during the 2010s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Jesus123 - 2
Aristotle13 - 3
Plato11 - 4
Socrates6.6 - 5
Homer5.3 - 6
Cicero4.3 - 7
Augustus4.3 - 8
Johns Hopkins3.6 - 9
Virgil3.4 - 10
George Washington2.5 - 11
Galen2.1 - 12
Plutarch2.1 - 13
Ovid2.1 - 14
Cleopatra1.9 - 15
George W. Bush1.9 - 16
Barack Obama1.9 - 17
Abraham Lincoln1.7 - 18
Thomas Jefferson1.7 - 19
Herodotus1.7 - 20
Ahab1.7 - 21
John the Baptist1.7 - 22
Origen1.7 - 23
Ronald Reagan1.5 - 24
Hosea1.5 - 25
Adam Smith1.5
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 - 9Barack Obama54.9M
- 10
Dwayne Johnson54.3M - 11
Adolf 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
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.