Annually, there are about 1.2 trillion searches made on Google, and the company trawls through its data at the end of every year to come up with lists of the most popular terms.
Google's list of the top trending people of the year refers to "the searches that had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2015 as compared to 2014," according to a Google spokesperson.
Here are the top 10 most trending people on Google in the past year.