Trending Poets this week
The 100 most-viewed poets this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Homer.
100
Ranked
1,945,574
Total Views (this week)
1
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
137,818
views
views
2
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
65,800
views
views
3
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
48,817
views
views
4
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
42,013
views
views
5
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
40,233
views
views
6
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
39,257
views
views
7
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
37,900
views
views
8
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
37,533
views
views
9
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
35,800
views
views
10
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
34,128
views
views
11
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
33,729
views
views
12
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
33,371
views
views
13
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
32,345
views
views
14
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
29,021
views
views
15
Tupac Shakur
American rapper (1971–1996)
27,609
views
views
16
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
27,533
views
views
17
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
26,630
views
views
18
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
25,976
views
views
19
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
25,760
views
views
20
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
25,171
views
views
21
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
23,819
views
views
22
Billy Corgan
American musician
23,623
views
views
23
John Denver
American singer (1943–1997)
23,315
views
views
24
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
22,906
views
views
25
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
22,076
views
views
26
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
20,633
views
views
27
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
19,779
views
views
28
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
19,630
views
views
29
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
18,730
views
views
30
Lenny Kravitz
American guitarist and singer (born 1964)
18,637
views
views
31
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
18,455
views
views
32
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
18,324
views
views
33
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
18,299
views
views
34
Ali Khamenei
cleric and former Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 (1939–2026)
18,266
views
views
35
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
18,153
views
views
36
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
17,705
views
views
37
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
17,593
views
views
38
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
17,584
views
views
39
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
17,523
views
views
40
Björk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
17,141
views
views
41
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
16,961
views
views
42
Charles Bronson
English criminal
16,531
views
views
43
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
16,206
views
views
44
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
16,056
views
views
45
Morrissey
British singer and songwriter
16,035
views
views
46
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
15,552
views
views
47
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
15,289
views
views
48
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
15,099
views
views
49
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946–2006)
14,683
views
views
50
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
14,478
views
views
51
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
14,452
views
views
52
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
14,293
views
views
53
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957–2025)
14,152
views
views
54
Orpheus
legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth
14,006
views
views
55
Mary de Rachewiltz
Italian-American poet and translator (1925–2026)
13,914
views
views
56
Juliette Binoche
French actress, artist and dancer (born 1964)
13,805
views
views
57
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
13,754
views
views
58
David
king of Israel and Judah
13,549
views
views
59
Todd Rundgren
American musician, songwriter, and record producer
13,547
views
views
60
Virgil
Roman poet (1st century BC)
13,340
views
views
61
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
13,273
views
views
62
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician
12,876
views
views
63
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
12,722
views
views
64
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
12,707
views
views
65
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931–2015)
12,663
views
views
66
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
12,660
views
views
67
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
12,549
views
views
68
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
12,441
views
views
69
Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
12,420
views
views
70
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
12,388
views
views
71
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
12,349
views
views
72
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)
12,325
views
views
73
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
12,177
views
views
74
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
11,807
views
views
75
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
11,781
views
views
76
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
11,740
views
views
77
Bo Burnham
American comedian
11,676
views
views
78
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
11,557
views
views
79
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
11,338
views
views
80
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
11,119
views
views
81
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
10,968
views
views
82
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
10,961
views
views
83
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
10,784
views
views
84
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
10,730
views
views
85
Crispin Glover
American actor
10,719
views
views
86
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
10,669
views
views
87
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942–2013)
10,579
views
views
88
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
10,521
views
views
89
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
10,425
views
views
90
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
10,287
views
views
91
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
10,286
views
views
92
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
10,245
views
views
93
Wu Zetian
founding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690
10,222
views
views
94
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
10,102
views
views
95
Christy Brown
Irish artist (1932-1981)
10,067
views
views
96
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
9,982
views
views
97
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
9,870
views
views
98
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
9,834
views
views
99
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
9,752
views
views
100
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
9,666
views
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