Trending Philosophers of all time
The 100 most-viewed philosophers of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Mahatma Gandhi.
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951,941
Total Views (of all time)
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1
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869β1948)
67,819
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2
Desmond Doss
American solder, pacifist, and combat medic; recipient of the Purple Heart medal, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1919β2007) Un gran hombre
57,702
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views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,174
views
views
4
Christine Grady
nurse-bioethicist and researcher
30,091
views
views
5
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
24,544
views
views
6
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874β1926)
23,717
views
views
7
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942β2023)
22,337
views
views
8
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
21,152
views
views
9
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
18,841
views
views
10
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894β1963)
18,127
views
views
11
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961β1997)
17,526
views
views
12
Pliny the Elder
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24β79)
17,287
views
views
13
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
17,217
views
views
14
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,662
views
views
15
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
16,571
views
views
16
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
14,911
views
views
17
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
14,863
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views
18
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
14,587
views
views
19
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954β2013)
12,947
views
views
20
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
12,907
views
views
21
Crates of Thebes
Cynic philosopher
12,411
views
views
22
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
12,234
views
views
23
Steve Earle
American musician
12,071
views
views
24
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909β1943)
12,023
views
views
25
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
11,444
views
views
26
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
11,096
views
views
27
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
11,086
views
views
28
Marcus Junius Brutus
assassin of Julius Caesar
10,661
views
views
29
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
9,748
views
views
30
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735β1826)
9,601
views
views
31
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
9,183
views
views
32
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
9,002
views
views
33
Hermes Trismegistus
purported author of the Hermetic Corpus
8,933
views
views
34
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
8,424
views
views
35
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
8,370
views
views
36
Chanakya
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy.
8,054
views
views
37
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
7,906
views
views
38
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588β1679)
7,796
views
views
39
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748β1832)
7,624
views
views
40
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891β1956)
7,400
views
views
41
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842β1910)
7,333
views
views
42
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905β1982)
7,249
views
views
43
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
7,160
views
views
44
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946β2000)
7,078
views
views
45
William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
6,936
views
views
46
Lee Kuan Yew
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923β2015)
6,790
views
views
47
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
6,714
views
views
48
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855β1926)
6,503
views
views
49
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892β1940)
6,495
views
views
50
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897β1957)
6,373
views
views
51
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
6,028
views
views
52
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
5,746
views
views
53
Lyndon LaRouche
American political activist (1922β2019)
5,676
views
views
54
Jill Stein
American politician and physician (born 1950)
5,533
views
views
55
Mollie Steimer
Russian anarchist (1897-1980)
5,326
views
views
56
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469β1527)
5,276
views
views
57
Jesse Ventura
American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)
5,254
views
views
58
Lucretius
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
5,088
views
views
59
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842β1921)
5,056
views
views
60
Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480β524)
5,023
views
views
61
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
62
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928β1982)
4,957
views
views
63
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
4,849
views
views
64
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922β2007)
4,657
views
views
65
Marianne Williamson
American author and politician
4,581
views
views
66
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rΕnin (1584β1645)
4,546
views
views
67
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
4,488
views
views
68
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
4,433
views
views
69
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832β1898)
4,307
views
views
70
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861β1941)
4,244
views
views
71
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
4,241
views
views
72
John Kerry
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
4,186
views
views
73
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
3,977
views
views
74
David Myatt
British writer, former neo-Nazi and former Islamist
3,921
views
views
75
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
3,857
views
views
76
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872β1970)
3,815
views
views
77
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50βc. 138)
3,801
views
views
78
Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican activist (1957-)
3,774
views
views
79
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926β1984)
3,700
views
views
80
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
3,700
views
views
81
Rumi
Iranian poet
3,683
views
views
82
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
3,571
views
views
83
Amir Khusrau
Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253β1325)
3,409
views
views
84
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819β1880)
3,396
views
views
85
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921β1997)
3,314
views
views
86
Pete Seeger
American folk singer (1919β2014)
3,298
views
views
87
Δdi Shankara
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
3,284
views
views
88
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905β1983)
3,276
views
views
89
Bulleh Shah
Punjabi poet
3,216
views
views
90
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871β1919)
3,172
views
views
91
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906β1945)
3,088
views
views
92
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
3,065
views
views
93
Mani
3rd century prophet and founder of Manichaeism
3,056
views
views
94
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
2,933
views
views
95
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 β β 1938)
2,814
views
views
96
Abbie Hoffman
American activist (1936β1989)
2,808
views
views
97
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561β1626)
2,792
views
views
98
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist (1958β2006)
2,742
views
views
99
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
2,666
views
views
100
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher (1803β1882)
2,647
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