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2020
Who the world actually read about in 2020 - readers across every language edition we measure, whoever they were and whenever they lived.
Most read
Who people actually looked up in 2020, across every language edition we measure.
- 1
Donald Trump56M - 2
Kamala Harris41.4M - 3
Joe Biden39.2M - 4
Kobe Bryant35.2M - 5
Elizabeth II26M - 6
Elon Musk24.4M - 7
Michael Jordan22.3M - 8
Chadwick Boseman19M - 9
Sushant Singh Rajput18.9M - 10
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon17M - 11
Barack Obama16.4M - 12
Jeffrey Epstein15.4M - 13
Billie Eilish15.2M - 14
Alexander Hamilton15.2M - 15
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh14.4M - 16
Diana, Princess of Wales14M - 17
Cristiano Ronaldo13.5M - 18
Diego Maradona13.4M - 19
Charles IIInot measured12.7M - 20
Ruth Bader Ginsburg12.6M - 21
Sean Connery12.5M - 22
LeBron James11.3M - 23
Amy Coney Barrett11.3M - 24
Margaret Thatcher11.2M - 25
Jeff Bezos11.2M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2020, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1Cristiano Ronaldo2 decades
- 2
Lewis Hamilton1 decades - 3
Bruno Mars1 decades - 4
Keira Knightley2 decades - 5
Lana Del Rey0 decades - 6
Luka Modrić0 decades - 7
Amanda Seyfried0 decades - 8
Gal Gadotnot measured- - 9
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saudnot measured- - 10
Sam Altman0 decades - 11
Kaley Cuoco0 decades - 12
Wayne Rooney2 decades - 13
Anna Kendrick0 decades - 14
Lily Allen1 decades - 15
Michelle Trachtenberg0 decades - 16
Carey Mulligan0 decades - 17
Michael Phelps2 decades - 18
Léa Seydoux1 decades - 19
Roman Reigns0 decades - 20
Rooney Mara0 decades - 21
Stan Wawrinka0 decades - 22
Guillermo Ochoanot measured- - 23
Adil Rami0 decades - 24
Lukas Podolski2 decades - 25
Chris Paul0 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.