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Who is the most famous of them all?

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Researcher­s at MIT have worked out that you are legitimate­ly famous if a Wikipedia page under your name exists in more than 25 languages. Pantheon, a project at MIT’s Media Lab, has investigat­ed global cultural data in the last 6,000 years. Their website ranks people over time and geography: Philosophe­rs to scientists, writers to porn stars. Who tops the list? Aristotle, followed by Plato and Jesus Christ. And no, Beatles is not “more popular than Jesus”, as John Lennon claimed in 1966. What about Indians? Check them out.

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