Trending Poets of all time
The 100 most-viewed poets of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Lisa Marie Presley.
100
Ranked
3,200,972
Total Views (of all time)
Country
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1
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968β2023)
152,924
views
views
2
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
125,626
views
views
3
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
109,236
views
views
4
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946β1991)
88,506
views
views
5
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
78,491
views
views
6
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564β1616)
71,688
views
views
7
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916β1990)
68,833
views
views
8
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943β2001)
68,113
views
views
9
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928β1967)
66,775
views
views
10
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
59,655
views
views
11
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
55,283
views
views
12
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
50,061
views
views
13
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
48,802
views
views
14
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
46,817
views
views
15
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
46,688
views
views
16
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899β1961)
46,217
views
views
17
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
43,113
views
views
18
David
king of Israel and Judah
42,350
views
views
19
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
41,368
views
views
20
BjΓΆrk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
40,822
views
views
21
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
39,420
views
views
22
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971β1996)
38,926
views
views
23
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908β1997)
38,001
views
views
24
Ian Curtis
British musician (1956β1980)
37,587
views
views
25
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883β1924)
35,860
views
views
26
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942β2013)
35,147
views
views
27
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881β1973)
34,093
views
views
28
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903β1950)
33,879
views
views
29
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925β1970)
32,945
views
views
30
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917β1997)
32,436
views
views
31
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54β68)
32,379
views
views
32
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890β1976)
32,298
views
views
33
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
32,023
views
views
34
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
30,670
views
views
35
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pΓ©piniΓ©riste and inventor (born 1939)
29,466
views
views
36
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157β1199)
29,173
views
views
37
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
28,702
views
views
38
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797β1851)
28,321
views
views
39
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
27,734
views
views
40
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932β1963)
26,725
views
views
41
Ali Khamenei
cleric and former Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 (1939β2026)
26,594
views
views
42
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934β2016)
26,454
views
views
43
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
25,950
views
views
44
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
25,749
views
views
45
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
25,631
views
views
46
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
25,114
views
views
47
Lenny Kravitz
American guitarist and singer (born 1964)
24,957
views
views
48
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469β1527)
24,886
views
views
49
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943β1971)
24,578
views
views
50
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890β1937)
24,286
views
views
51
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
24,107
views
views
52
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
23,795
views
views
53
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
23,578
views
views
54
Charles Bronson
English criminal
23,445
views
views
55
Bo Burnham
American comedian
23,424
views
views
56
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
22,827
views
views
57
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890β1969)
22,077
views
views
58
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841β1882)
22,062
views
views
59
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904β1991)
21,986
views
views
60
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957β2025)
21,914
views
views
61
Garth Brooks
American country music singer and songwriter
21,693
views
views
62
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483β1546)
21,659
views
views
63
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978β2005)
21,273
views
views
64
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
20,562
views
views
65
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer (1926β1997)
20,473
views
views
66
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970β2025)
20,327
views
views
67
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
20,122
views
views
68
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809β1849)
20,021
views
views
69
Art Garfunkel
American singer (born 1941)
19,859
views
views
70
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
19,346
views
views
71
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
19,185
views
views
72
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
19,167
views
views
73
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931β2015)
18,985
views
views
74
LaKeith Stanfield
American actor and rapper
18,678
views
views
75
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
18,604
views
views
76
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
18,589
views
views
77
Muthuvel Karunanidhi
Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1924β2018)
18,302
views
views
78
John Denver
American singer (1943β1997)
18,290
views
views
79
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
18,143
views
views
80
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861β1941)
17,748
views
views
81
AlΔ« ibn AbΔ« αΉ¬Δlib
4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656β661) and first Shia Imam
16,956
views
views
82
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354β430)
16,952
views
views
83
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828β1910)
16,948
views
views
84
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913β1960)
16,805
views
views
85
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946β2006)
16,762
views
views
86
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)
16,256
views
views
87
SΓΈren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813β1855)
16,166
views
views
88
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
16,078
views
views
89
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868β1963)
16,077
views
views
90
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882β1941)
16,025
views
views
91
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician
15,950
views
views
92
Crispin Glover
American actor
15,894
views
views
93
Jewel
American singer-songwriter
15,801
views
views
94
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician
15,435
views
views
95
Morrissey
British singer and songwriter
15,396
views
views
96
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
15,297
views
views
97
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802β1885)
15,274
views
views
98
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914β1997)
15,154
views
views
99
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
15,103
views
views
100
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922β1969)
15,050
views
views
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