Trending Poets this week
The 100 most-viewed poets this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Lisa Marie Presley.
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Ranked
1,509,164
Total Views (this week)
Country
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1
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968β2023)
67,860
views
views
2
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946β1991)
66,761
views
views
3
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
59,677
views
views
4
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971β1996)
43,714
views
views
5
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
43,545
views
views
6
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
31,267
views
views
7
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943β2001)
27,567
views
views
8
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564β1616)
27,436
views
views
9
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928β1967)
26,079
views
views
10
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
25,545
views
views
11
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
22,196
views
views
12
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
22,015
views
views
13
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
20,582
views
views
14
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942β2013)
20,579
views
views
15
Tennessee Williams
American playwright (1911β1983)
20,082
views
views
16
Lenny Kravitz
American rock musician
20,003
views
views
17
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
19,937
views
views
18
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
19,921
views
views
19
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916β1990)
19,763
views
views
20
David
king of Israel and Judah
19,439
views
views
21
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
19,363
views
views
22
Ali Khamenei
cleric and former Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 (1939β2026)
19,271
views
views
23
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
18,885
views
views
24
BjΓΆrk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
18,822
views
views
25
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899β1961)
18,491
views
views
26
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
18,119
views
views
27
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
17,806
views
views
28
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
17,480
views
views
29
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
17,341
views
views
30
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
16,090
views
views
31
John Denver
American singer (1943β1997)
15,534
views
views
32
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pΓ©piniΓ©riste and inventor (born 1939)
15,532
views
views
33
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
15,025
views
views
34
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946β2006)
14,712
views
views
35
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883β1924)
13,958
views
views
36
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908β1997)
13,190
views
views
37
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881β1973)
13,179
views
views
38
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925β1970)
13,166
views
views
39
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903β1950)
13,120
views
views
40
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943β1971)
13,080
views
views
41
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
12,848
views
views
42
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54β68)
12,699
views
views
43
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890β1976)
12,502
views
views
44
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
12,495
views
views
45
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917β1997)
12,481
views
views
46
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157β1199)
12,244
views
views
47
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809β1849)
11,852
views
views
48
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
11,222
views
views
49
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
11,086
views
views
50
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797β1851)
11,067
views
views
51
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483β1546)
11,000
views
views
52
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934β2016)
10,900
views
views
53
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932β1963)
10,899
views
views
54
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978β2005)
10,746
views
views
55
Morrissey
British singer and songwriter
10,714
views
views
56
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
10,636
views
views
57
Garth Brooks
American country music singer and songwriter
10,500
views
views
58
Todd Rundgren
American musician, songwriter, and record producer
10,140
views
views
59
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
10,103
views
views
60
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
9,972
views
views
61
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
9,843
views
views
62
Bo Burnham
American comedian
9,840
views
views
63
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
9,817
views
views
64
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician
9,735
views
views
65
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913β1960)
9,629
views
views
66
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890β1937)
9,618
views
views
67
Charles Bronson
English criminal
9,610
views
views
68
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
9,497
views
views
69
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
9,380
views
views
70
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469β1527)
9,362
views
views
71
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
9,349
views
views
72
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904β1991)
9,257
views
views
73
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
9,080
views
views
74
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer (1926β1997)
9,074
views
views
75
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354β430)
8,972
views
views
76
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957β2025)
8,865
views
views
77
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841β1882)
8,818
views
views
78
James Baldwin
American writer (1924β1987)
8,644
views
views
79
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890β1969)
8,636
views
views
80
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
8,571
views
views
81
Lieke Marsman
Dutch poet
8,492
views
views
82
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788β1824)
8,227
views
views
83
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
8,080
views
views
84
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970β2025)
8,057
views
views
85
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
7,900
views
views
86
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828β1910)
7,854
views
views
87
Art Garfunkel
American singer (born 1941)
7,840
views
views
88
Mehmed II
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444β1446, 1451β1481)
7,713
views
views
89
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
7,619
views
views
90
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931β2015)
7,510
views
views
91
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
7,473
views
views
92
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2β1226)
7,366
views
views
93
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865β1936)
7,350
views
views
94
Muthuvel Karunanidhi
Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1924β2018)
7,308
views
views
95
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
7,159
views
views
96
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
7,139
views
views
97
AlΔ« ibn AbΔ« αΉ¬Δlib
4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656β661) and first Shia Imam
7,102
views
views
98
LaKeith Stanfield
American actor and rapper
7,087
views
views
99
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929β2018)
7,032
views
views
100
Ian Curtis
British musician (1956β1980)
7,021
views
views
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