The journal's own writing: the month in fame, cover stories, country and sector dispatches, and explainers on how to read the record.
The first issue of the record opens with a name that has held the world's attention for two thousand years, a footballer who holds it now, and a list on which the living and the dead are measured on one scale.
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · September 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Issue No. 1
Why the standard list ranks the living and the dead together, who the twenty-two are, and what the Alive list is for.
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · September 5, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo opens the Alive list at No. 1 in August 2026, with a fame score that puts him above every politician, every musician and every actor on earth, and second only to Jesus Christ on the standard list.
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · September 5, 2026
Sixty-two country lists, fifty-five named No. 1s, twenty-four of them politicians, seven of them the same man. A tour of the first issue's map.
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · September 5, 2026
What a rank means, what the score is, why the dead are on the standard list, why some countries have no named No. 1, and why movement is sometimes missing.
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · September 5, 2026