Trending Philosophers — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed philosophers on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ted Kaczynski. Data as of 24 October 2026.
- Source
- Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
- Window
- September 2026 · Data as of 24 October 2026
- Showing
- 100 philosophers — drawn from 12,391,362 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
Where this data comes from ›100
Ranked
20,596,711
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
2,910,435
views
views
2
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
772,716
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
489,763
views
views
4
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
392,264
views
views
5
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
372,806
views
views
6
Emmanuel Macron
President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017
372,473
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
8
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
328,284
views
views
9
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
322,333
views
views
10
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
319,505
views
views
11
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
309,917
views
views
12
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
309,584
views
views
13
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
298,107
views
views
14
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
280,326
views
views
15
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
279,364
views
views
16
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
272,169
views
views
17
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
18
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
261,338
views
views
19
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
249,123
views
views
20
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
247,215
views
views
21
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
237,860
views
views
22
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
231,985
views
views
23
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
231,820
views
views
24
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
230,970
views
views
25
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
226,760
views
views
26
Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
226,112
views
views
27
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
218,780
views
views
28
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
214,061
views
views
29
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
207,229
views
views
30
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
205,982
views
views
31
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
205,454
views
views
32
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
200,608
views
views
33
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
192,628
views
views
34
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935–2024)
192,244
views
views
35
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
188,233
views
views
36
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2nd President and 1st Vice President of India, Indian philosopher and politician (1888–1975)
185,215
views
views
37
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
184,754
views
views
38
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
39
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
176,240
views
views
40
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
173,020
views
views
41
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
170,845
views
views
42
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
168,576
views
views
43
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
165,712
views
views
44
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
160,976
views
views
45
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
160,838
views
views
46
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
154,843
views
views
47
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
151,477
views
views
48
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
151,322
views
views
49
Krishna
Hindu deity
150,871
views
views
50
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
142,411
views
views
51
Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
142,176
views
views
52
Voltaire
French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
141,778
views
views
53
Roger Waters
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943)
140,696
views
views
54
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
137,256
views
views
55
Henry Rollins
American musician
136,487
views
views
56
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
135,941
views
views
57
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
134,342
views
views
58
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
132,557
views
views
59
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
131,711
views
views
60
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
126,554
views
views
61
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
124,303
views
views
62
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
123,609
views
views
63
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
123,466
views
views
64
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
123,178
views
views
65
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
121,404
views
views
66
Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (born 1959)
121,156
views
views
67
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
120,761
views
views
68
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
120,166
views
views
69
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
119,206
views
views
70
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
117,471
views
views
71
Ram Dass
American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
114,912
views
views
72
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
114,362
views
views
73
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
114,277
views
views
74
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
113,077
views
views
75
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
112,907
views
views
76
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
112,837
views
views
77
Kuan Yew Lee
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
109,442
views
views
78
Diogenes of Sinope
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
105,556
views
views
79
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
102,498
views
views
80
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
102,086
views
views
81
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
98,678
views
views
82
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
98,357
views
views
83
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
98,278
views
views
84
Danny Glover
American actor (born 1946)
97,141
views
views
85
Joan Baez
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
97,140
views
views
86
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
94,911
views
views
87
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
94,841
views
views
88
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
89
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
93,541
views
views
90
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
92,786
views
views
91
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
90,685
views
views
92
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
90,131
views
views
93
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
89,389
views
views
94
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
89,208
views
views
95
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
88,815
views
views
96
Desmond Doss
American solder, pacifist, and combat medic; recipient of the Purple Heart medal, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1919–2007) Un gran hombre en la vida militar.
88,321
views
views
97
James Madison
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
87,413
views
views
98
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
87,350
views
views
99
Ines Schwerdtner
German journalist and politician
87,307
views
views
100
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
87,294
views
views