← Fame through time2023
2023
Who the world actually read about in 2023 - readers across every language edition we measure, whoever they were and whenever they lived.
Most read
Who people actually looked up in 2023, across every language edition we measure.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer32.2M - 2
Cristiano Ronaldo23.5M - 3
Taylor Swift23.5M - 4
Lionel Messi23.2M - 5
Matthew Perrynot measured19M - 6
Yevgeny Prigozhinnot measured17.3M - 7
Elon Musk17.2M - 8
Lisa Marie Presley15.7M - 9
Andrew Tate14.2M - 10
Sinéad O'Connor14.1M - 11
Elvis Presley13.7M - 12
Tina Turner13.7M - 13
David Beckham13.4M - 14
Elizabeth II13.3M - 15
Cleopatra13.2M - 16
Pedro Pascal12.7M - 17
Donald Trump12.5M - 18
Travis Kelcenot measured12.5M - 19
Vladimir Putin12.3M - 20
Arnold Schwarzenegger12.3M - 21
Margot Robbie12.2M - 22
Tom Cruise11.8M - 23
Joe Biden11.6M - 24
Napoleon11.6M - 25
Novak Djokovic11M
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2023, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Rihanna2 decades - 2
Emma Stone1 decades - 3
Robert Lewandowski0 decades - 4
Adelenot measured- - 5
Stephen Curry1 decades - 6
Conor McGregor0 decades - 7
Ana de Armasnot measured- - 8
Virat Kohli1 decades - 9
Kevin Durant1 decades - 10
Khabib Nurmagomedovnot measured- - 11
Vanessa Hudgens0 decades - 12
Alicia Vikander0 decades - 13
Ángel Di María0 decades - 14
Hayley Williams0 decades - 15
Brenda Song0 decades - 16
Mesut Özil1 decades - 17
Rupert Grint0 decades - 18
Vanessa Kirby0 decades - 19
Zoë Kravitz0 decades - 20
Alexis Sánchez1 decades - 21
Anushka Sharma0 decades - 22
Sergio Agüero1 decades - 23
Javier Hernándenot measured- - 24
Haley Joel Osment2 decades - 25
Russell Westbrook0 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.