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2012
Whose working lives fell in 2012. 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 2012, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Shakira3 decades - 2
Emmanuel Macronnot measured- - 3
Kanye West2 decades - 4
Giorgia Meloni2 decades - 5
John Cena1 decades - 6
Thierry Henry2 decades - 7
Tom Hardy1 decades - 8
Orlando Bloom2 decades - 9
Chris Martin3 decades - 10
Liv Tyler1 decades - 11
Michael Fassbender0 decades - 12
Jessica Chastain0 decades - 13
Sarah Michelle Gellar1 decades - 14
Maggie Gyllenhaal0 decades - 15
Tom Brady2 decades - 16
Chiwetel Ejiofor0 decades - 17
Donald Trump Jr.1 decades - 18
James Van Der Beek0 decades - 19
Floyd Mayweather1 decades - 20
Kerry Washington0 decades - 21
Kaja Kallasnot measured- - 22
Brock Lesnar0 decades - 23
Milo Ventimiglia0 decades - 24
Mike Shinoda0 decades - 25
Jared Fogle0 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.