Trending Officers in USA — the 12 months to October 2026

1

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945)

📚 94 citations 📰 583 stories · 160 sources

824,018
views

2

Ratko Mladić

Convicted war criminal and general of the Bosnian Serb military (1942–2026)

📚 9 citations

654,200
views

3

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)

📚 46 citations

653,077
views

4

Elvis Presley

American singer and actor (1935–1977)

📚 49 citations 📰 133 stories · 37 sources

625,504
views

5

John F. Kennedy

president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)

📚 82 citations

613,900
views

6

George VI

King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952

📚 29 citations

554,488
views

7

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)

📚 66 citations

552,440
views

8

Pete Hegseth

United States Secretary of Defense

📚 17 citations 📰 938 stories · 128 sources

530,465
views

9

George Washington

Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)

📰 102 stories · 37 sources

505,242
views

10

Ronald Reagan

president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)

📚 74 citations 📰 248 stories · 65 sources

483,415
views

11

Abraham Lincoln

president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)

📚 56 citations 📰 122 stories · 52 sources

476,908
views

12

Winston Churchill

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

📚 103 citations 📰 133 stories · 19 sources

472,679
views

13

Dwight D. Eisenhower

president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)

📚 50 citations

467,305
views

14

Alexander the Great

king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)

📚 30 citations

449,506
views

15

John Stewart

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 3 citations 📰 18 stories · 4 sources

425,146
views

16

Genghis Khan

founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)

📚 22 citations 📰 87 stories · 11 sources

419,077
views

17

Mel Brooks

American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)

📚 34 citations

402,645
views

18

Muhammad

Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)

📚 23 citations

399,038
views

19

George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States (1989–1993)

📚 43 citations

396,233
views

20

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021 (1921-2021)

📚 47 citations

387,509
views

21

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales

📚 34 citations

358,513
views

22

Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

📚 51 citations

357,450
views

23

J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

📚 80 citations

353,291
views

24

Julius Caesar

Roman general and dictator

📚 56 citations 📰 11 stories · 3 sources

351,286
views

25

Richard Nixon

president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)

📚 39 citations 📰 123 stories · 36 sources

347,933
views

26

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)

📚 42 citations 📰 13 stories · 5 sources

335,523
views

27

Paul Newman

American actor (1925–2008)

📚 39 citations

332,392
views

28

Muammar Gaddafi

Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011)

📚 33 citations 📰 43 stories · 9 sources

315,667
views

29

Harry S. Truman

president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)

📚 42 citations

314,499
views

30

Hal Jordan

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 9 stories · 3 sources

312,427
views

31

Jimmy Carter

president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)

📚 59 citations 📰 57 stories · 26 sources

311,082
views

32

Christopher Lee

English actor and singer (1922–2015)

📚 43 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

307,378
views

33

Guy Gardner

DC Comics fictional character

📚 2 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

299,916
views

34

Robert F. Kennedy

American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)

📚 33 citations

294,931
views

35

Lindsey Graham

American politician and attorney (1955–2026)

📚 22 citations 📰 139 stories · 28 sources

293,423
views

36

James A. Garfield

president of the United States in 1881

📚 28 citations

278,998
views

37

Howard Hughes

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)

📚 24 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

269,905
views

38

Ulysses S. Grant

president of the United States from 1869 to 1877

📚 33 citations

265,536
views

39

James Stewart

American actor and military officer (1908–1997)

📚 34 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

259,557
views

40

James Stagg

British meteorologist (1900-1975)

📚 4 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

255,700
views

41

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)

📚 38 citations

253,186
views

42

Rick Rescorla

British American army officer, hero and victim of 9/11

📚 2 citations

251,266
views

43

Gerald Ford

president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)

📚 39 citations 📰 17 stories · 11 sources

249,713
views

44

Kirk Douglas

American actor (1916–2020)

📚 42 citations 📰 8 stories · 5 sources

239,475
views

45

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)

📚 39 citations 📰 13 stories · 5 sources

237,834
views

46

William IV

King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837

📚 22 citations

235,133
views

47

Pol Pot

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1925–1998)

📚 28 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

225,478
views

48

Neil Armstrong

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)

📚 55 citations 📰 24 stories · 9 sources

225,336
views

49

Oliver Cromwell

English military and political leader (1599–1658)

📚 24 citations 📰 19 stories · 7 sources

222,513
views

50

Idi Amin

President of Uganda (1971-1979)

📚 29 citations 📰 28 stories · 7 sources

219,898
views

51

Gene Hackman

American actor and novelist (1930–2025)

📚 32 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

214,984
views

52

Humphrey Bogart

American actor (1899–1957)

📚 29 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

214,165
views

53

Andrew Jackson

president of the United States from 1829 to 1837

📚 33 citations 📰 16 stories · 5 sources

210,383
views

54

Bashar al-Assad

Syrian convicted fugitive and former President of Syria from 2000 to 2024

📚 36 citations 📰 39 stories · 11 sources

207,017
views

55

Charles de Gaulle

French general and statesman (1890–1970)

📚 52 citations 📰 24 stories · 17 sources

206,667
views

56

Arthur Ashe

American tennis player (1943–1993)

📚 25 citations

204,781
views

57

Dick Cheney

Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 (1941–2025)

📚 24 citations

198,826
views

58

Dean Martin

American singer, actor, comedian and film producer (1917–1995)

📚 25 citations 📰 4 stories · 3 sources

194,416
views

59

T. E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)

📚 39 citations

194,208
views

60

Ayman al-Zawahiri

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

📚 12 citations

186,653
views

61

Hung Cao

American politician and Navy veteran (born 1971)

📚 3 citations

186,561
views

62

Daniel P. Driscoll

American politician

183,711
views

63

Henry Fonda

American actor (1905–1982)

📚 27 citations

183,699
views

64

Tony Curtis

American actor (1925–2010)

📚 36 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

179,977
views

65

George S. Patton

United States Army general (1885–1945)

📚 30 citations

178,768
views

66

Clark Gable

American actor (1901–1960)

📚 34 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

178,525
views

67

Francisco Franco

Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)

📚 49 citations

176,582
views

68

Johnny Carson

American talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)

📚 20 citations 📰 10 stories · 6 sources

175,290
views

69

Douglas MacArthur

United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)

📚 31 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

173,856
views

70

Pete Buttigieg

American politician (born 1982)

📚 22 citations 📰 280 stories · 126 sources

171,857
views

71

Saladin

Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (1137–1193)

📚 27 citations

169,363
views

72

Adolf Eichmann

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

📚 31 citations

166,746
views

73

Jackie Robinson

American baseball player (1919–1972)

📚 18 citations

165,826
views

74

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)

📚 28 citations

164,595
views

75

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)

📚 32 citations

158,740
views

76

Felipe VI of Spain

King of Spain since 2014

📚 46 citations

156,682
views

77

Timur

the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)

📚 19 citations

156,440
views

78

J. Edgar Hoover

American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)

📚 25 citations

155,380
views

79

Chester A. Arthur

president of the United States from 1881 to 1885

📚 16 citations

154,911
views

80

William Wallace

Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence

📚 19 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

152,966
views

81

Robert E. Lee

Confederate States general (1807–1870)

📚 32 citations

152,325
views

82

Richard Winters

United States Army Officer

📚 6 citations

152,314
views

83

David

king of Israel and Judah

📚 26 citations

151,908
views

84

John McCain

American politician (1936–2018)

📚 55 citations 📰 27 stories · 10 sources

151,351
views

85

Buzz Aldrin

American astronaut (born 1930)

📚 52 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

151,059
views

86

Ibrahim Traoré

military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022

📚 3 citations

147,767
views

87

Chesley Sullenberger

American commercial airline pilot

📚 11 citations

147,737
views

88

Hannibal

Carthaginian general (247–183/181 BC)

📚 17 citations

146,799
views

89

Rock Hudson

American actor (1925–1985)

📚 25 citations 📰 34 stories · 12 sources

146,378
views

90

Audie Murphy

American soldier and actor (1925–1971)

📚 13 citations

145,591
views

91

Otto von Bismarck

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

📚 40 citations

145,400
views

92

Kyle Rayner

fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics

📚 2 citations

144,476
views

93

Charlton Heston

American actor (1923–2008)

📚 34 citations 📰 16 stories · 7 sources

143,796
views

94

Erwin Rommel

German field marshal (1891–1944)

📚 31 citations

143,781
views

95

Leonor, Princess of Asturias

38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne

📚 9 citations

142,389
views

96

Leslie Nielsen

Canadian-American actor and comedian (1926–2010)

📚 18 citations

141,234
views

97

Nicolae Ceaușescu

dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989

📚 45 citations

139,991
views

98

Abin Sur

DC Comics character

📚 2 citations

139,521
views

99

William Henry Harrison

president of the United States in 1841 (1773-1841)

📚 28 citations

136,422
views

100

Prince George, Duke of Kent

Royal Navy admiral (1902–1942), member of the House of Windsor

📚 12 citations

135,174
views