← 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 - 26
Chris Kyle4.9M - 27
Elizabeth II4.9M - 28
Kim Kardashian4.8M - 29
Ariana Grande4.7M - 30
Justin Bieber4.6M - 31
Arnold Schwarzenegger4.6M - 32
Tom Cruise4.5M - 33
Tom Hardy4.5M - 34
Cara Delevingne4.5M - 35
Conor McGregor4.4M - 36
Daisy Ridley4.4M - 37
Carrie Fisher4.4M - 38
Jennifer Lawrence4.4M - 39
Mia Khalifanot measured4.3M - 40
Daniel Craig4.3M - 41
Amy Schumer4.3M - 42
Pope Francisnot measured4.3M - 43
Michael Jackson4.1M - 44
Sunny Leone4.1M - 45
Frank Sinatra4.1M - 46
Gigi Hadid4.1M - 47
Serena Williams4.1M - 48
Harrison Ford4.1M - 49
Mark Hamill4.1M - 50
Mahatma Gandhi4M - 51
Albert Einstein4M - 52
Leonardo DiCaprio4M - 53
Mark Zuckerberg3.9M - 54
Tupac Shakur3.9M - 55
The Undertakernot measured3.9M - 56
Paul Walkernot measured3.8M - 57
Salman Khan3.8M - 58
Charlie Sheen3.8M - 59
Elon Musk3.8M - 60
Roger Federer3.8M - 61
Jennifer Aniston3.7M - 62
Macaulay Culkinnot measured3.7M - 63
Angelina Jolie3.7M - 64
Hedy Lamarr3.7M - 65
Sylvester Stallone3.7M - 66
Christopher Columbus3.6M - 67
Selena Gomez3.6M - 68
Kanye West3.6M - 69
Suge Knightnot measured3.6M - 70
Tom Brady3.5M - 71
Kylie Jenner3.5M - 72
Michael Jordan3.5M - 73
Lamar Odom3.5M - 74
Elvis Presley3.5M - 75
Charles Manson3.5M - 76
Heath Ledger3.4M - 77
Will Smith3.4M - 78
Mila Kunis3.4M - 79
Bill Gates3.4M - 80
Novak Djokovic3.2M - 81
Sundar Pichai3.2M - 82
Ruby Rosenot measured3.2M - 83
Adam Driver3.2M - 84
Demi Lovato3.2M - 85
Channing Tatum3.2M - 86
Michael J. Fox3.2M - 87
Emilia Clarke3.2M - 88
Amy Winehouse3.2M - 89
Robin Williams3.2M - 90
Scarlett Johansson3.2M - 91
Mark Wahlberg3.2M - 92
Bruce Lee3.2M - 93
Tyson Fury3.2M - 94
Nicki Minaj3.1M - 95
Peyton Manning3.1M - 96
Shah Rukh Khan3.1M - 97
Ronald Reagan3.1M - 98
Abraham Lincoln3.1M - 99
Chris Pratt3.1M - 100
Keanu Reeves3.1M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2015, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1Kim Kardashian1 decades
- 2
Ronaldinho3 decades - 3
Ryan Gosling1 decades - 4Macaulay 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 - 15Channing 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.