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Zoomed into the area around Jerusalem and found the following: Natalie Portman - notability rank 221 Jesus - notability rank 204.5 Go a bit further north to

Zoomed into the area around Jerusalem and found the following: Natalie Portman - notability rank 221 Jesus - notability rank 204.5 Go a bit further north to Haifa, and you'll find Gene Simmons with a notability rank of 2136.

avyfain 4y ago
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.
- peterkelly 4y ago
  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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus
  - bobthepanda 4y ago
    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.
    - jasonm23 4y ago
      That and Jesus is an alleged person at best. The scholarly work on the human Jesus is ridiculously biased.
      - jmprspret 4y ago
        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.
        dontlaugh 4y ago
        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.
        collinmanderson 4y ago
        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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
Rebelgecko 4y ago
I think Natalie Portman also beats Jesus in terms of her Erdős–Bacon number and her H-index
- evan_ 4y ago
  She has an Oscar and a couple Golden Globes too, I don't think Jesus has won any major film awards
  - arthurcolle 4y ago
    I mean... not yet - only his biggest fans are aware of the ever-imminent return to the forefront of pop culture, duh.

avyfain 4y ago

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.

peterkelly 4y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus
- bobthepanda 4y ago
  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.
  - jasonm23 4y ago
    That and Jesus is an alleged person at best. The scholarly work on the human Jesus is ridiculously biased.
    - jmprspret 4y ago
      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.
      - dontlaugh 4y ago
        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.
      - collinmanderson 4y ago
        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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Rebelgecko 4y ago

I think Natalie Portman also beats Jesus in terms of her Erdős–Bacon number and her H-index

evan_ 4y ago
She has an Oscar and a couple Golden Globes too, I don't think Jesus has won any major film awards
- arthurcolle 4y ago
  I mean... not yet - only his biggest fans are aware of the ever-imminent return to the forefront of pop culture, duh.