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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 - 26
Kim Jong-un11.1M - 27
Melania Trump10.8M - 28
George VI10.8M - 29
Naya Rivera10.8M - 30
Dwayne Johnson10.6M - 31
Winston Churchill10.5M - 32
Adolf Hitler10.5M - 33
Beau Bidennot measured10.4M - 34
Lionel Messi10.4M - 35
Pablo Escobar10.4M - 36
Jill Biden10.3M - 37
Freddie Mercury10.3M - 38
Vladimir Putin10.2M - 39
Boris Johnson10.2M - 40
Joaquin Phoenix10.2M - 41
Keanu Reeves10M - 42
Anya Taylor-Joynot measured9.9M - 43
Judy Garland9.8M - 44
Johnny Depp9.7M - 45
Scarlett Johansson9.7M - 46
Mike Tyson9.4M - 47
Edward VIII9.3M - 48
Patrick Mahomesnot measured9.1M - 49
John F. Kennedy9.1M - 50
Leonardo DiCaprio9.1M - 51
Tom Hanks9M - 52
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez9M - 53
Andrew Cuomo8.9M - 54
Elton John8.8M - 55
Shakira8.7M - 56
Ghislaine Maxwellnot measured8.7M - 57
Queen Victorianot measured8.7M - 58
Michael Jackson8.7M - 59
Irrfan Khan8.7M - 60
Khabib Nurmagomedovnot measured8.6M - 61
Brad Pitt8.6M - 62
Dua Lipa8.6M - 63
Anne, Princess Royalnot measured8.5M - 64
Ronald Reagan8.4M - 65
Tom Cruise8.4M - 66
Timothée Chalamet8.4M - 67
Jennifer Aniston8.4M - 68
Hunter Biden8.4M - 69
Anthony Fauci8.3M - 70
Bill Gates8.3M - 71
Ariana Grande8.2M - 72
Amber Heard8.2M - 73
Franklin D. Roosevelt8.2M - 74
Bernie Sanders8.2M - 75
Scottie Pippen8.1M - 76
Clint Eastwood8.1M - 77
Abraham Lincoln8.1M - 78
Dennis Rodman8M - 79
Arnold Schwarzenegger7.9M - 80
Nancy Pelosi7.9M - 81
Sacha Baron Cohen7.8M - 82
Bruce Lee7.8M - 83
Jennifer Lopez7.7M - 84
Ted Bundy7.7M - 85
Elvis Presley7.7M - 86
Kelly Preston7.7M - 87
Taylor Swift7.7M - 88
Martin Luther King Jr.7.7M - 89
Mahatma Gandhi7.6M - 90
Cleopatra7.6M - 91
Mike Pence7.5M - 92
Eminem7.5M - 93
Muhammad Ali7.4M - 94
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burmanot measured7.4M - 95
Michael Bloomberg7.4M - 96
Will Smith7.4M - 97
Ana de Armasnot measured7.3M - 98
Stephen Hawking7.3M - 99
Albert Einstein7.3M - 100
Tyson Fury7.2M
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.