← Fame through time2020-2029
The 2020s
Who the world actually read about in the 2020s - readers across every language edition we measure, whoever they were and whenever they lived.
Most read
Who people actually looked up in the 2020s, across every language edition we measure (2020-2026 only - readership is measured from July 2015).
- 1
Donald Trump172.8M - 2
Elon Musk150.7M - 3
Elizabeth II139.3M - 4
Cristiano Ronaldo136.6M - 5
Lionel Messi116.3M - 6
Joe Biden106.7M - 7
Kamala Harris96.5M - 8
Jeffrey Dahmer95.3M - 9
Vladimir Putin93.8M - 10
Taylor Swift84.2M - 11
Jeffrey Epstein79M - 12
Michael Jackson70.7M - 13
Adolf Hitler67.7M - 14
Elvis Presley66.2M - 15
Kobe Bryant65.7M - 16
Kylian Mbappé64.3M - 17
Michael Jordan63.4M - 18
Tom Cruise62.2M - 19
Cleopatra61.9M - 20
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh61.6M - 21
Barack Obama61M - 22
Zendaya60.7M - 23
J. Robert Oppenheimer60M - 24
Diana, Princess of Wales59.4M - 25
Keanu Reeves59.1M - 26
LeBron James58.6M - 27
Johnny Depp57M - 28
Queen Victorianot measured57M - 29
Dwayne Johnson56.7M - 30
Timothée Chalamet56.4M - 31
Charlie Kirknot measured55.5M - 32
XXXTentacion54.7M - 33
George VI54.5M - 34
Scarlett Johansson54.1M - 35
Freddie Mercury53.4M - 36
Billie Eilish53.3M - 37
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon53.1M - 38
Jeff Bezos53M - 39
Ed Geinnot measured52.1M - 40
Leonardo DiCaprio52M - 41
Arnold Schwarzenegger51.3M - 42
Ryan Reynolds51.1M - 43
Ariana Grande51M - 44
Tom Brady50.7M - 45
John F. Kennedy50.7M - 46
Napoleon49.3M - 47
Dua Lipa49.2M - 48
Jimmy Carter48.7M - 49
Clint Eastwood48.5M - 50
Millie Bobby Brown48.2M - 51
Xi Jinping48M - 52
Erling Haalandnot measured48M - 53
Marilyn Monroe47.9M - 54
Amber Heard47.7M - 55
Kanye West47.4M - 56
Joseph Stalin47.1M - 57
Dolly Parton46.8M - 58
Novak Djokovic46.4M - 59
Eminem46.4M - 60
Pablo Escobar46.3M - 61
Andrew Tate46.2M - 62
Bruce Willis46M - 63
Anya Taylor-Joynot measured45.8M - 64
Albert Einstein45.7M - 65
Lady Gaga45.5M - 66
Brad Pitt45.2M - 67
Mike Tyson45.2M - 68
Pope Francisnot measured44.8M - 69
Edward VIII44.3M - 70
Lisa Marie Presley43.8M - 71
Jennifer Lopez43.7M - 72
Val Kilmer43.5M - 73
Sylvester Stallone43.3M - 74
Sydney Sweeneynot measured43.3M - 75
Ana de Armasnot measured43.2M - 76
Shakira43.1M - 77
Winston Churchill42.9M - 78
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.42.4M - 79
Angelina Jolie42.3M - 80
Ozzy Osbourne41.7M - 81
Margot Robbie41.6M - 82
Jennifer Aniston41.4M - 83
Robin Williams41.2M - 84
Patrick Mahomesnot measured40.9M - 85
Ted Bundy40.8M - 86
Muhammad Ali40.7M - 87
Ryan Gosling40.7M - 88
Jenna Orteganot measured40.6M - 89
Kim Kardashian40.5M - 90
Tom Hollandnot measured40.5M - 91
Blake Lively40.4M - 92
Pedro Pascal40.3M - 93
Matthew Perrynot measured40M - 94
Chadwick Boseman39.9M - 95
Rihanna39.8M - 96
Mahatma Gandhi39.5M - 97
Franklin D. Roosevelt39.4M - 98
Diego Maradona39.4M - 99
Abraham Lincoln39.4M - 100
Ronald Reagan39.4M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 2020s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1Lionel Messi1 decades
- 2Cristiano Ronaldo2 decades
- 3Taylor Swift1 decades
- 4Lady Gaga1 decades
- 5Ariana Grande1 decades
- 6Kylian Mbappé1 decades
- 7Novak Djokovic1 decades
- 8
Neymar1 decades - 9Tom Hollandnot measured-
- 10
Selena Gomez1 decades - 11Billie Eilish0 decades
- 12
Justin Bieber1 decades - 13Rihanna2 decades
- 14Dua Lipa0 decades
- 15
Lewis Hamilton1 decades - 16Zendaya0 decades
- 17
Miley Cyrus1 decades - 18
Jennifer Lawrence1 decades - 19
Lamine Yamalnot measured- - 20Erling Haalandnot measured-
- 21
Emma Watson1 decades - 22
Harry Kanenot measured- - 23
Rafael Nadal2 decades - 24
Emma Stone1 decades - 25
Bruno Mars1 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.