← Fame through time2015
2015
Who the world actually read about in 2015 - readers across every language edition we measure, whoever they were and whenever they lived.
Most read
Who people actually looked up in 2015, across every language edition we measure.
- 1
Pablo Escobar13.8M - 2
Donald Trump12.7M - 3
Ronda Rousey8.9M - 4
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam8.8M - 5
Adelenot measured8.7M - 6
Eazy-E8.3M - 7
Stephen Hawking7.3M - 8
Steve Jobs6.9M - 9
Dr. Dre6.7M - 10
Cristiano Ronaldo6.6M - 11
Lionel Messi6.4M - 12
Bernie Sanders6.2M - 13
Ice Cube6M - 14
Barack Obama5.9M - 15
Adolf Hitler5.8M - 16
Caitlyn Jenner5.6M - 17
Dwayne Johnson5.6M - 18
John Cena5.4M - 19
Vladimir Putin5.3M - 20
Justin Trudeau5.3M - 21
Johnny Depp5.3M - 22
Ben Carsonnot measured5.3M - 23
Eminem5.2M - 24
The Weeknd5.1M - 25
Taylor Swift4.9M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2015, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Kim Kardashian1 decades - 2
Ronaldinho3 decades - 3
Ryan Gosling1 decades - 4
Macaulay Culkinnot measured- - 5
Rishi Sunak0 decades - 6
Jake Gyllenhaal2 decades - 7
Andrew Tate0 decades - 8
Kristen Bell0 decades - 9
Eva Green2 decades - 10
Venus Williams2 decades - 11
Christina Aguilera2 decades - 12
Christina Riccinot measured- - 13
Gisele Bündchen0 decades - 14
Zooey Deschanel0 decades - 15
Channing Tatum1 decades - 16
Michelle Williams2 decades - 17
Chris Pine0 decades - 18
Pete Hegseth0 decades - 19
Steven Gerrard1 decades - 20
Xavi Hernández1 decades - 21
Jessica Simpson2 decades - 22
Annalena Baerbock0 decades - 23
Charlie Hunnam0 decades - 24
Jacinda Ardern0 decades - 25
Yao Ming4 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.