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FWIW, it seems like the ranks are an inverse scale where lower means more notable - Jesus is more notable than Natalie Portman according to the index.

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Ah yes I see it now. She's close though!

John Lennon once famously claimed the Beatles were "More popular than Jesus" [1]. His notability index is 27. I guess he must have been right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus

To be fair, Wikipedia has access to a lot more primary and secondary sources for people in the 20th century than for people in the first, so I don’t know that Wikipedia is the best metric.

That and Jesus is an alleged person at best. The scholarly work on the human Jesus is ridiculously biased.

I find it very hard to believe that Jesus never existed. That he's the son of god is debatable - but I thought his existence has been pretty concretely proven time and time again.

Several prophets (likely more than one with the then common name Jesus) had a following in Roman-occupied Palestine. The bible figure is likely an exaggerated amalgamation.

Yes. There was definitely a human named Jesus who “was baptized by John the Baptist and crucified by order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

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