Trending Poets of all time
The 100 most-viewed poets of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Homer.
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1,146,605
Total Views (of all time)
Country
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1
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
65,224
views
views
2
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
51,072
views
views
3
BjΓΆrk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
42,655
views
views
4
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
34,433
views
views
5
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
29,352
views
views
6
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882β1941)
28,419
views
views
7
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
23,988
views
views
8
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920β2012)
22,219
views
views
9
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802β1885)
21,772
views
views
10
Shel Silverstein
American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999)
21,313
views
views
11
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943β2001)
20,380
views
views
12
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
20,335
views
views
13
Kishore Kumar
Indian singer and actor (1929β1987)
19,920
views
views
14
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
18,841
views
views
15
Pauley Perrette
American actress and musician
18,322
views
views
16
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894β1963)
18,127
views
views
17
Jewel
American singer-songwriter
17,883
views
views
18
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564β1616)
17,778
views
views
19
Olivera Katarina
Serbian actor, singer and writer
17,464
views
views
20
Pliny the Elder
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24β79)
17,287
views
views
21
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928β1967)
16,735
views
views
22
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899β1986)
15,838
views
views
23
Javed Akhtar
Indian writer, poet and lyricist
15,778
views
views
24
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
14,526
views
views
25
Babur
founder of the Mughal Empire (1526β1530)
14,097
views
views
26
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
14,094
views
views
27
Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927β2014)
14,034
views
views
28
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
13,772
views
views
29
Michaela Coel
British actress and screenwriter
13,009
views
views
30
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
12,234
views
views
31
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
12,091
views
views
32
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909β1943)
12,023
views
views
33
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899β1961)
11,548
views
views
34
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
11,444
views
views
35
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
11,096
views
views
36
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757β1854)
10,742
views
views
37
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916β1990)
10,670
views
views
38
Marcus Junius Brutus
assassin of Julius Caesar
10,661
views
views
39
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881β1973)
9,876
views
views
40
Qianlong Emperor
emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711β1799)
9,499
views
views
41
Γmile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840β1902)
9,258
views
views
42
Christy Brown
Irish artist (1932-1981)
9,042
views
views
43
Charles Bronson
English criminal
8,998
views
views
44
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54β68)
8,764
views
views
45
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932β1963)
8,620
views
views
46
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
8,424
views
views
47
Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician, literary man and humanist
8,247
views
views
48
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903β1950)
8,035
views
views
49
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
8,000
views
views
50
Gil Scott-Heron
American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author (1949β2011)
7,782
views
views
51
Rakim
American rapper
7,561
views
views
52
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957β2025)
7,521
views
views
53
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
7,311
views
views
54
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917β1997)
7,243
views
views
55
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931β2015)
7,089
views
views
56
Rade Ε erbedΕΎija
Croatian actor
7,084
views
views
57
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970β2025)
6,916
views
views
58
David
king of Israel and Judah
6,891
views
views
59
Kβnaan
Somali-Canadian musician
6,847
views
views
60
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
6,714
views
views
61
Mu'awiya I
founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661β680)
6,654
views
views
62
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660β1731)
6,615
views
views
63
Crispin Glover
American actor
6,522
views
views
64
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889β1963)
6,504
views
views
65
Virgil
Roman poet (1st century BC)
6,294
views
views
66
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890β1937)
6,294
views
views
67
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
6,185
views
views
68
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811β1896)
6,120
views
views
69
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
6,028
views
views
70
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
5,718
views
views
71
Wilkie Collins
British writer (1824-1889)
5,677
views
views
72
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)
5,562
views
views
73
Bo Burnham
American comedian
5,343
views
views
74
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942β2013)
5,312
views
views
75
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904β1991)
5,286
views
views
76
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469β1527)
5,276
views
views
77
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925β1970)
5,272
views
views
78
Bayezid I
fourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389β1402)
5,264
views
views
79
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
5,245
views
views
80
Zhu Su
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 30174
5,225
views
views
81
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor (1919β1972)
5,195
views
views
82
Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland (2011β2018; 2018β2025)
5,147
views
views
83
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
5,123
views
views
84
Lucretius
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
5,088
views
views
85
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
86
Art Garfunkel
American singer (born 1941)
4,767
views
views
87
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841β1882)
4,756
views
views
88
Wilfred Owen
English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
4,745
views
views
89
Garth Brooks
American country music singer and songwriter
4,682
views
views
90
Vera Sola
American-Canadian musician and actress
4,660
views
views
91
RyΕ«nosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (1892β1927)
4,563
views
views
92
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885β1972)
4,507
views
views
93
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914β1997)
4,497
views
views
94
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
4,433
views
views
95
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901-1978)
4,387
views
views
96
Saima Raina
Indian stand-up comedian
4,384
views
views
97
Serge Monast
Canadian writer
4,377
views
views
98
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
4,360
views
views
99
AlΔ« ibn AbΔ« αΉ¬Δlib
4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656β661) and first Shia Imam
4,339
views
views
100
BΓ‘b
founder of BΓ‘bism and, according to the BahΓ‘ΚΌΓs, predecessor of BahΓ‘ΚΌu'llΓ‘h
4,310
views
views
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