2020, “annus horribilis” to forget for many French people … Moreover, some personalities are completely out of the news, while others have signed a sensational media entry. We take stock using the Aday ranking, the leading media monitoring platform (1).
Politics and pandemic
At the top of this list of the 1,000 personalities most talked about in the French press, a trio similar to that of last year, with President Emmanuel Macron (1st), followed by his American counterpart Donald Trump (2nd) and ex-Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (3rd), now mayor of Le Havre.
But just after, new faces linked to the pandemic appear, with that of Jean Castex (4th) who was responsible for the management of the first deconfinement before taking office at Matignon, followed by Olivier Véran (5th) the current Minister of Health. Lower in the ranking, we find Jérôme Salomon (26th) the Director General of Health, the controversial Professor Didier Raoult (29th) or even the Chairman of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy (81st).
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Scientists or doctors enter the ranking
The controversial Didier Raoult (29th; +1,274 places), the members of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy (81st; +1,353 places) and Arnaud Fontanet (398th; +1,084 places), the emergency physician Patrick Pelloux (668th; +494 places), infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe (731st; +759 places), or even the president of the League against cancer Axel Kahn (990th; +217 places): these scientists or doctors are all making their entry into the ranking of 1,000.
Thus, the pandemic allowed Jean Castex (+1 409 places), Jean-François Delfraissy (+1 353 places) and Jérôme Salomon (+1 345 places) to appear in the top 3 of the “entrants”.
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Other members of the government, current or past, have climbed into the top 50: Bruno Le Maire (7th), Gérald Darmanin (8th), Jean-Michel Blanquer (11th), Christophe Castaner (12th), Agnès Buzyn (21st) ), Elisabeth Borne (24th), Muriel Pénicaud (35th), Roselyne Bachelot (38th), Eric Dupond-Moretti (39th) and Roxana Maracineanu (41st).
Outside government, some political figures, French and foreign, rub shoulders with them: Boris Johnson (13th), Nicolas Sarkozy (14th), Angela Merkel (first woman, 15th), Anne Hidalgo (16th), Marine Le Pen (18th), François Hollande (20th), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (25th), Vladimir Poutine (28th), Ursula Von der Leyen (31st), Xavier Bertrand (36th), Pope Francis (40th), Recep Tayyip Erdogan (42nd) and Christian Estrosi (50th) ).
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American elections
We also note a progression of American personalities in this year of presidential election across the Atlantic. In addition to Donald Trump, Joe Biden, the elected president, records 6th place, while Barack Obama settles in 19th position.
Sport
Si Kylian Mbappé (9th), Neymar (10th), Thomas Tuchel (17th), Lionel Messi (22nd), Didier Deschamps (23rd), Cristiano Ronaldo (27th), André Villas-Boas (30th), Novak Djokovic (32nd), Zinédine Zidane (33rd), Angle Di Maria (34th), Rudi Garcia (37th), Antoine Griezmann (43rd), Jean-Michel Aulas (44th), Thibaut Pinot (45th), Dimitri Payet (46th), Julian Alaphilippe (47th) , Rafael Nadal (48th) and Lewis Hamilton (49th) remain in the 50s, the world of sport records heavy falls.
The heaviest is that of Italian footballer Mario Balotelli, who is struggling to relaunch his sports career after his stint at Olympique de Marseille in 2019. He barely maintains his place in the 1,000 (968th; -897 places).
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