Using http://www.google.com/trends , I looked up every player I could think of. The percentage next to the name is the number of searches relative to Phil Ivey:

100% Phil Ivey
82% Daniel Negreanu
70% Tom Dwan
58% Liv Boeree
52% Phil Hellmuth
50% Doyle Brunson
40% Pius Heinz
40% Vanessa Rousso
36% Viktor Blom
34% Gus Hansen
30% Chris Ferguson
30% Stu Ungar
28% Tony G
26% Howard Lederer
24% Annie Duke
24% Phil Galfond
20% Phil Laak
20% Sandra Naujoks
20% Kara Scott
18% Patrik Antonius
16% Ben Lamb
16% Jason Mercier
12% Jonathan Duhamel
10% Maria Ho
10% Mike Matusow
10% Vanessa Selbst
6% Dario Minieri
6% Chris Moneymaker

A caveat:

I excluded players who are famous for reasons that have little to do with poker (Jennifer Tilly 214%, Victoria Coren 82%, Jerry Buss 22%, Gabe Kaplan 18%, Guy Laliberté 10%.) And also players who share a name with a more famous person or have a very common name (Phil Collins, David Williams, and many others.)

So 100% of the Google searches are for Phil Ivey

reading comprehension is hard

lol at everyone googling 'pics of Liv Boeree'

Why exclude her?

Leveling comprehension is hard

I don't think you should have excluded Victoria Coren either - in the UK she is probably more famous than anybody else on that list amongst the general public.

boeree, coren and tilly are most likely for fap purposes and are thus irrelevant.

Yeah, but not for being a poker player. That's why she was excluded.

OP should do trends for Isildur1, rather than Viktor Blom.

Vicky does alot of radio/TV work and is also a journalist for a big daily paper in the UK.

And as mentioned in my edit in previous post - EPT win for £500k (first woman I think) and decent poker book amongst the other stuff.

Victoria Coren is debatable I admit. Of the two news stories Google listed, neither was primarily about poker, and one of them did not mention poker at all.

^^ to my last post re: EPT

She is also a reg. at the Vic in London etc. etc.

Liv never talks to me in chat. She doesnt deserve this fame.