Trending Officers — September 2026

1

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945)

📚 94 citations 📰 1098 stories · 298 sources

873,408
views

2

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)

📚 46 citations

633,462
views

3

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)

📚 66 citations

622,686
views

4

Elvis Presley

American singer and actor (1935–1977)

📚 49 citations 📰 63 stories · 15 sources

497,413
views

5

John F. Kennedy

president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)

📚 82 citations

489,175
views

6

George VI

King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952

📚 29 citations

468,380
views

7

Alexander the Great

king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)

📚 30 citations

425,601
views

8

Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

📚 51 citations

384,224
views

9

Abraham Lincoln

president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)

📚 56 citations 📰 110 stories · 32 sources

382,295
views

10

Ronald Reagan

president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)

📚 74 citations 📰 566 stories · 101 sources

378,661
views

11

Winston Churchill

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

📚 103 citations 📰 190 stories · 22 sources

375,299
views

12

Ratko Mladić

Convicted war criminal and general of the Bosnian Serb military (1942–2026)

📚 9 citations

368,720
views

13

Genghis Khan

founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)

📚 22 citations 📰 48 stories · 7 sources

365,619
views

14

Pete Hegseth

United States Secretary of Defense

📚 17 citations 📰 1285 stories · 268 sources

357,699
views

15

Dwight D. Eisenhower

president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)

📚 50 citations

356,066
views

16

George Washington

Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)

📰 150 stories · 40 sources

355,973
views

17

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021 (1921-2021)

📚 47 citations

351,472
views

18

Julius Caesar

Roman general and dictator

📚 56 citations 📰 12 stories · 3 sources

340,804
views

19

George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States (1989–1993)

📚 43 citations

334,791
views

20

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales

📚 34 citations

333,344
views

21

John Stewart

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 3 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources

313,828
views

22

Muhammad

Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)

📚 23 citations

308,156
views

23

J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

📚 80 citations

305,346
views

24

Paul Newman

American actor (1925–2008)

📚 39 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources

268,412
views

25

Richard Nixon

president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)

📚 39 citations 📰 210 stories · 50 sources

260,227
views

26

Hal Jordan

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 5 stories · 3 sources

253,958
views

27

Christopher Lee

English actor and singer (1922–2015)

📚 43 citations 📰 9 stories · 2 sources

252,864
views

28

Rick Rescorla

British American army officer, hero and victim of 9/11

📚 2 citations

249,535
views

29

Guy Gardner

DC Comics fictional character

📚 2 citations

249,143
views

30

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

📚 16 citations 📰 10 stories · 4 sources

247,233
views

31

Charles de Gaulle

French general and statesman (1890–1970)

📚 52 citations 📰 54 stories · 24 sources

244,813
views

32

Jimmy Carter

president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)

📚 59 citations 📰 148 stories · 45 sources

231,820
views

33

Muammar Gaddafi

Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011)

📚 33 citations 📰 75 stories · 20 sources

226,320
views

34

Kirk Douglas

American actor (1916–2020)

📚 42 citations

225,541
views

35

Harry S. Truman

president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)

📚 42 citations

224,323
views

36

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)

📚 42 citations 📰 87 stories · 39 sources

218,780
views

37

Oda Nobukatsu

Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period

📚 2 citations

212,574
views

38

Arthur Ashe

American tennis player (1943–1993)

📚 25 citations

208,884
views

39

Howard Hughes

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)

📚 24 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

206,927
views

40

Ayman al-Zawahiri

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

📚 12 citations

199,760
views

41

Robert F. Kennedy

American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)

📚 33 citations

198,781
views

42

Pol Pot

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1925–1998)

📚 28 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

196,964
views

43

Otto von Bismarck

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

📚 40 citations

189,551
views

44

Francisco Franco

Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)

📚 49 citations 📰 10 stories · 3 sources

189,463
views

45

Mel Brooks

American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)

📚 34 citations 📰 33 stories · 25 sources

185,655
views

46

James Stewart

American actor and military officer (1908–1997)

📚 34 citations 📰 5 stories · 3 sources

185,353
views

47

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)

📚 39 citations 📰 12 stories · 8 sources

185,157
views

48

Felipe VI of Spain

King of Spain since 2014

📚 46 citations

184,332
views

49

Leonor, Princess of Asturias

38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne

📚 9 citations

178,982
views

50

Gerald Ford

president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)

📚 39 citations 📰 21 stories · 14 sources

178,009
views

51

Oliver Cromwell

English military and political leader (1599–1658)

📚 24 citations

177,804
views

52

Gene Hackman

American actor and novelist (1930–2025)

📚 32 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

176,936
views

53

James A. Garfield

president of the United States in 1881

📚 28 citations

175,970
views

54

Neil Armstrong

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)

📚 55 citations 📰 579 stories · 176 sources

175,163
views

55

Adolf Eichmann

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

📚 31 citations

173,808
views

56

Oda Nobunaga

Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)

📚 17 citations

173,348
views

57

William IV

King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837

📚 22 citations

171,418
views

58

Humphrey Bogart

American actor (1899–1957)

📚 29 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

170,707
views

59

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)

📚 32 citations

166,988
views

60

Bashar al-Assad

Syrian convicted fugitive and former President of Syria from 2000 to 2024

📚 36 citations 📰 28 stories · 12 sources

165,840
views

61

Idi Amin

President of Uganda (1971-1979)

📚 29 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

163,820
views

62

Dick Cheney

Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 (1941–2025)

📚 24 citations 📰 18 stories · 4 sources

163,672
views

63

Klaus Barbie

German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)

📚 16 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

161,953
views

64

Ulysses S. Grant

president of the United States from 1869 to 1877

📚 33 citations

161,181
views

65

Suleiman the Magnificent

the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)

📚 21 citations

160,890
views

66

Daniel P. Driscoll

American politician

159,924
views

67

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)

📚 38 citations

157,997
views

68

Nicolae Ceaușescu

dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989

📚 45 citations

156,903
views

69

Henry Fonda

American actor (1905–1982)

📚 27 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

153,186
views

70

Ibrahim Traoré

military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022

📚 3 citations

144,436
views

71

Erwin Rommel

German field marshal (1891–1944)

📚 31 citations

143,625
views

72

T. E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)

📚 39 citations

143,125
views

73

Timur

the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)

📚 19 citations

142,142
views

74

Dean Martin

American singer, actor, comedian and film producer (1917–1995)

📚 25 citations 📰 22 stories · 7 sources

140,036
views

75

Paul von Hindenburg

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)

📚 28 citations

139,265
views

76

Moses

Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of Egypt

📚 20 citations

138,620
views

77

David

king of Israel and Judah

📚 26 citations

137,329
views

78

Saladin

Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (1137–1193)

📚 27 citations

137,308
views

79

Juan Carlos I of Spain

King of Spain from 1975 to 2014

📚 44 citations

134,169
views

80

Richard Winters

United States Army Officer

📚 6 citations

133,101
views

81

Chesley Sullenberger

American commercial airline pilot

📚 11 citations

132,506
views

82

Hannibal

Carthaginian general (247–183/181 BC)

📚 17 citations

131,038
views

83

Andrew Jackson

president of the United States from 1829 to 1837

📚 33 citations 📰 12 stories · 3 sources

130,512
views

84

Karl Dönitz

German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980)

📚 44 citations

130,040
views

85

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)

📚 34 citations 📰 34 stories · 11 sources

128,408
views

86

Douglas MacArthur

United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)

📚 31 citations

127,736
views

87

Mohammed VI of Morocco

king of Morocco since 1999

📚 25 citations

126,735
views

88

Hung Cao

American politician and Navy veteran (born 1971)

📚 3 citations

126,430
views

89

Clark Gable

American actor (1901–1960)

📚 34 citations

124,418
views

90

Henry IV of France

King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610 (1553-1610)

📚 29 citations

122,318
views

91

Leslie Nielsen

Canadian-American actor and comedian (1926–2010)

📚 18 citations

122,174
views

92

Lindsey Graham

American politician and attorney (1955–2026)

📚 22 citations 📰 451 stories · 75 sources

121,216
views

93

William Wallace

Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence

📚 19 citations

119,181
views

94

George S. Patton

United States Army general (1885–1945)

📚 30 citations

119,026
views

95

Abdullah II of Jordan

King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

📚 32 citations

118,513
views

96

Tony Curtis

American actor (1925–2010)

📚 36 citations

114,048
views

97

Rock Hudson

American actor (1925–1985)

📚 25 citations

113,607
views

98

Abin Sur

DC Comics character

📚 2 citations

113,337
views

99

Georgy Zhukov

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)

📚 28 citations

113,276
views

100

Kyle Rayner

fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics

📚 2 citations

111,500
views