So far I used Ngram to evaluate the fame of 72 actresses and actors.

Their fame levels ranged from 0.8 famons, for George Macready, to 60 famons for Bob Dylan (figure 1).

 

Figure 1. Fame of 72 actresses and actors (vertical axis, fame in famons). Fame was estimated using the Google Ngram tool (https://books.google.com/ngrams/).

 

Most actresses/actors have fame levels between 0 and 10 famons and between 10 and 20 famons. Only 10 actors/actresses have fame larger than 30 famons:

  • Bob Dylan
  • Elvis Presley
  • Marylin Monroe
  • John Wayne
  • Frank Sinatra
  • John Lennon
  • Woody Allen
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Orson Welles.

 

Figure 2. Frequency distribution of the fame of 72 actresses/actors. The vertical axis shows the number of actresses/actors.

 

I will regularly update these figures.

 


 

 


Kostas Stergiou

Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.

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