Trending Painters this year
The 98 most-viewed painters this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Paul McCartney.
98
Ranked
2,896,882
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Paul McCartney
English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)
171,893
views
views
2
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889β1945)
143,249
views
views
3
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946β1991)
118,087
views
views
4
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819β1901)
108,840
views
views
5
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
94,413
views
views
6
Tony Curtis
American actor (1925β2010)
75,831
views
views
7
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874β1965)
75,230
views
views
8
David Bowie
English musician and actor (1947β2016)
70,070
views
views
9
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
69,965
views
views
10
Ringo Starr
British musician, drummer for the Beatles (born 1940)
69,468
views
views
11
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
68,150
views
views
12
John Wayne Gacy
American serial killer (1942β1994)
54,650
views
views
13
Jorge R. GutiΓ©rrez
Mexican animator, painter, writer, and director
53,670
views
views
14
Udo Lindenberg
German rock musician and composer
50,604
views
views
15
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
49,016
views
views
16
Jim Carrey
Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
46,546
views
views
17
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907β1954)
46,510
views
views
18
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853β1890)
45,027
views
views
19
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
40,844
views
views
20
Pierre Bonnard
French painter and printmaker (1867-1947)
40,358
views
views
21
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881β1973)
39,423
views
views
22
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
39,421
views
views
23
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901β1966)
37,939
views
views
24
Alex Grant
American artist (*1973)
37,372
views
views
25
Jared Leto
American actor, singer, musician and songwriter (born 1971)
37,283
views
views
26
Banksy
English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
33,286
views
views
27
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928β1987)
33,258
views
views
28
Anthony Hopkins
WelshβAmerican actor and director (born 1937)
32,056
views
views
29
Lucy Liu
American actress
30,779
views
views
30
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
30,498
views
views
31
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
28,564
views
views
32
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859β1941)
27,922
views
views
33
Salvador DalΓ
Spanish artist (1904β1989)
27,629
views
views
34
Gary Ridgway
American serial killer
25,729
views
views
35
Dennis Hopper
American actor and film director (1936β2010)
25,044
views
views
36
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 (1819β1861)
23,551
views
views
37
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960β1988)
23,341
views
views
38
Bob Ross
American painter, art instructor, television host, and Air Force master sergeant (1942β1995)
23,328
views
views
39
Claude Monet
French painter (1840β1926)
21,716
views
views
40
John Leguizamo
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)
20,679
views
views
41
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
20,511
views
views
42
Catalina Sandino Moreno
Colombian actress
18,664
views
views
43
Jemima Kirke
British-American artist and actress
18,587
views
views
44
Grimes
Canadian musician, singer, record producer and music video director (born 1988)
18,077
views
views
45
Frances Bean Cobain
American artist and model
17,885
views
views
46
Lucian Freud
British painter and agravar (1922-2011)
17,746
views
views
47
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891β1956)
17,725
views
views
48
Pedro Alonso
Spanish actor
17,203
views
views
49
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910β1998)
16,874
views
views
50
Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571β1610)
16,844
views
views
51
Grace Slick
American musician, writer and painter
16,585
views
views
52
Matthew Gray Gubler
American actor, filmmaker and model (born 1980)
16,272
views
views
53
Eve Plumb
American actress, painter
16,020
views
views
54
Alexandra Feodorovna
Empress consort of Russia (1872β1918)
15,704
views
views
55
Alia Shawkat
American actress
15,587
views
views
56
Marthe Bonnard
French painter and wife of Pierre Bonnard (1869-1942)
15,382
views
views
57
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861β1941)
15,273
views
views
58
Evel Knievel
American stunt performer and artist (1938β2007)
15,068
views
views
59
Billy Zane
American actor (born 1966)
15,034
views
views
60
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rΕnin (1584β1645)
14,914
views
views
61
Brian Eno
British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)
14,873
views
views
62
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483β1520)
14,455
views
views
63
Henry Hill
American mobster (1943β2012)
14,046
views
views
64
Mike Shinoda
American musician, rapper, singer and songwriter
14,020
views
views
65
Jackson Pollock
American painter (1912β1956)
13,492
views
views
66
Noel Fielding
British comedian and actor
13,396
views
views
67
Francisco Goya
Spanish painter and printmaker (1746β1828)
13,215
views
views
68
Rembrandt
Dutch painter and printmaker (1606β1669)
13,190
views
views
69
Diego Rivera
Mexican muralist (1886β1957)
13,154
views
views
70
Rhea Seehorn
American actress (born 1972)
13,130
views
views
71
Ronnie Wood
British rock guitarist, member of The Rolling Stones
13,081
views
views
72
Rolf Harris
Australian entertainer (1930β2023)
13,078
views
views
73
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098β1179)
13,049
views
views
74
Lori Petty
American actress
12,982
views
views
75
Peter Cushing
British actor (1913β1994)
12,823
views
views
76
Billy Dee Williams
American actor (born 1937)
12,740
views
views
77
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
12,526
views
views
78
Anthony Quinn
Mexican and American actor (1915β2001)
12,511
views
views
79
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914β1997)
12,503
views
views
80
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist (1958-1990)
12,331
views
views
81
Alexandra of Denmark
Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
12,196
views
views
82
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877β1962)
12,162
views
views
83
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer (1936β2008)
12,122
views
views
84
Maria Feodorovna
Empress consort of Russia (1847β1928)
11,909
views
views
85
Henri Matisse
French artist (1869-1954)
11,827
views
views
86
William Blake
English poet and artist (1757β1827)
11,748
views
views
87
Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinese empress (1835β1908)
11,655
views
views
88
Margrethe II of Denmark
Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
11,519
views
views
89
Tony Bennett
American singer (1926β2023)
11,423
views
views
90
Lady Sarah Chatto
Member of the British royal family
11,271
views
views
91
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch painter (c. 1450β1516)
11,205
views
views
92
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950β2016)
11,177
views
views
93
Leonora Carrington
British-born Mexican artist, painter and novelist (1917β2011)
11,111
views
views
94
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (born 1929)
10,980
views
views
95
RenΓ© Magritte
Belgian surrealist (1898β1967)
10,748
views
views
96
Suze Rotolo
American artist (1943-2011)
10,704
views
views
97
Gloria Vanderbilt
American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
10,683
views
views
98
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862β1918)
10,653
views
views
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