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Most Famous People by First Name #1

For each of the 20 most common first names among famous people (taken from this quiz), name the three most well-known people, measured by number of Wikipedia languages.
exact spelling, so e.g. Mary doesn't count for Maria
for people with multiple "first" names, but no last name, enter the second name
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Last updated: October 29, 2023
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First Name
#1
#2
#3
John
F. Kennedy
Paul II
Adams
Robert
Mugabe
Koch
De Niro
David
Cameron
Hilbert
Bowie
William
Shakespeare
Henry Harrison
Howard Taft
Michael
Jackson
Faraday
Schumacher
Charles
Darwin
Dickens
de Gaulle
George
W. Bush
Washington
H. W. Bush
James
Cook
Joyce
Watt
Paul
the Apostle
McCartney
Cézanne
Peter
the Great
Paul Rubens
the Apostle
Richard
Wagner
Nixon
Feynman
Alexander
the Great
Pushkin
Graham Bell
José
Saramago
Luis R. Zapatero
Mujica
Maria
Sharapova
Goeppert Mayer
Montessori
Thomas
Edison
Jefferson
Aquinas
Henry
Ford
VIII
Kissinger
Louis
Pasteur
Armstrong
XIV
Joseph
Stalin
Haydn
Fourier
Daniel
Defoe
Radcliffe
Day-Lewis
Juan
Carlos I
Manuel Santos
Ramón Jiménez
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8 Comments
HyddenRizz
+2
Level 67
Mar 16, 2025
There's no way that "John Adams" is more famous than John Lennon. No way.

About half of these answers feel right and half feel absurd! George HW Bush over George Orwell too.

Gumbledalf
+1
Level 74
Mar 17, 2025
You're right, I used the word "famous" as a proxy here. The metric I use is correlated to that but not exactly the same. But I wanted to keep it objective, so I had to make some compromises.
finky89
+2
Level 71
Mar 16, 2025
Michael Jordan...?

Thomas Brady...?

The answers seem to be more subjective than objective. Michael Jordan is still one of the most famous people walking the planet more than 20 years after he retired.

Gumbledalf
+1
Level 74
Mar 17, 2025
You're taking a very local perspective. Most people in the world have never heard of Michael Jordan, much less Thomas Brady. The answers are objective, you can verify them if you like. That doesn't mean they have to feel right to you.
Username6547
+1
Level 68
Mar 16, 2025
agree with the comments above.

The number of wikipedia languages might not be the best way to calculate the popularity of someone. Maybe you should try the number of pages viewed per celebrity?

Gumbledalf
+1
Level 74
Mar 17, 2025
I've looked at it, it seems to be even worse. Have a look at pantheon.world if you're interested in this sort of thing.
eplatzack
+1
Level 60
Mar 28, 2025
I agree with the other comments here, using the number of wikipedia language seems to be a bad metric to measure fame.

There is just no way that David Hilbert, a mathematician, is more well known than David Beckham, one of the biggest stars of the most popular sport in the world. Or that 19th century physicist Michael Faraday is more famous than either Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan, or Mike Tyson.

Gumbledalf
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Level 74
Mar 30, 2025
Yes, as I said before, the metric does not exactly capture how many people know about the person, but something related. Historical figures have a slight advantage that way (which doesn't seem so bad to me). Feel free to suggest a better metric if you know one.
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