Trending Historians in China — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed historians on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Kuan Yew Lee. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Chinese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of China. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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Ranked
49,571
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Kuan Yew Lee
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
1,822
views
views
2
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
1,551
views
views
3
Li Ao
Taiwanese writer (1935-2018)
1,482
views
views
4
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
1,171
views
views
5
Su Shi
Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)
1,022
views
views
6
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
981
views
views
7
Li Rui
Chinese politician (1917–2019)
976
views
views
8
Qi Xin
2nd wife of Xi Zhongxun and mother of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping
953
views
views
9
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311–1375)
917
views
views
10
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
845
views
views
11
Mao Xinyu
grandson of former CCP Chairman Mao Zedong
835
views
views
12
Chen Boda
Chinese politician (1904-1989)
827
views
views
13
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
788
views
views
14
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
772
views
views
15
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
German Field Marshal (1800–1891)
768
views
views
16
Liang Chi-chao
Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
765
views
views
17
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
745
views
views
18
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
733
views
views
19
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
693
views
views
20
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
690
views
views
21
Michelle Ye
Chinese actress
678
views
views
22
Lin Huiyin
Chinese architect and writer (1904-1955)
678
views
views
23
Yao Ming
Chinese basketball player (born 1980)
663
views
views
24
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
650
views
views
25
Chris Kyle
American war veteran and author (1974-2013)
644
views
views
26
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
627
views
views
27
何法盛
626
views
views
28
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
612
views
views
29
Joe Jackson
American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928–2018)
604
views
views
30
Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
589
views
views
31
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
568
views
views
32
董狐
551
views
views
33
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
546
views
views
34
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
512
views
views
35
William Carey
English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
495
views
views
36
Thucydides
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
489
views
views
37
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
480
views
views
38
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
463
views
views
39
Kyrie Irving
American basketball player (born 1992)
449
views
views
40
Guo Moruo
Chinese writer (1892-1978)
445
views
views
41
Liang Sicheng
Chinese architect and scholar (1901-1972)
438
views
views
42
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
433
views
views
43
Angelina Jolie
American actress (born 1975)
430
views
views
44
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
429
views
views
45
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
403
views
views
46
George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States (1989–1993)
397
views
views
47
Charlie Chaplin
English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
389
views
views
48
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
385
views
views
49
Fang Xiaoru
Chinese scholar
382
views
views
50
Liu Xiaoqing
Chinese actress and businesswoman
380
views
views
51
Zhang Yihe
Chinese author
378
views
views
52
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
377
views
views
53
Zhu Xi
Chinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty (1130–1200)
375
views
views
54
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
359
views
views
55
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
352
views
views
56
Yuan Tengfei
history teacher in Beijing, China
348
views
views
57
Pattie Mallette
Mother of Justin Bieber
344
views
views
58
Xie Na
Chinese host, singer and actress
344
views
views
59
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
340
views
views
60
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
340
views
views
61
Cho-yun Hsu
Taiwanese-American historian
335
views
views
62
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
335
views
views
63
Luis Suárez
Uruguayan association football player
330
views
views
64
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
329
views
views
65
Katherine Jackson
matriarch of the Jackson musical family
320
views
views
66
Hsieh Che-ching
cultural and art history expert, broadcaster, travel writer, and mountaineer
319
views
views
67
Wei Zheng
Tang Dynasty chancellor (580-643)
314
views
views
68
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
314
views
views
69
Li Zhisui
Chinese physician (1919–1995)
308
views
views
70
Yi Qiang
paleontologist
305
views
views
71
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
301
views
views
72
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 (1923–2023)
299
views
views
73
Qin Hui
Chinese historian
297
views
views
74
Charles de Gaulle
French general and statesman (1890–1970)
297
views
views
75
Zeng Shiqiang
Taiwanese sinologist
295
views
views
76
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
294
views
views
77
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
291
views
views
78
Gerald Ford
president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
289
views
views
79
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
288
views
views
80
Wu Den-yih
Politician and former Premier of Taiwan
286
views
views
81
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
285
views
views
82
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
279
views
views
83
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
268
views
views
84
Zhang Tingyu
Chinese politician and historian (1672-1755)
266
views
views
85
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
263
views
views
86
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
260
views
views
87
Han Yu
Chinese historian, poet, philosopher and politician (768–824)
258
views
views
88
Fu Ssu-nien
Chinese linguist (1896-1950)
257
views
views
89
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
255
views
views
90
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942–2016)
254
views
views
91
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
254
views
views
92
Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
254
views
views
93
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
251
views
views
94
Gao Hua
Chinese historian (1954-2011)
249
views
views
95
Chen Jieru
Chinese writer (1906-1971)
242
views
views
96
Hillary Clinton
American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
242
views
views
97
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
241
views
views
98
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
241
views
views
99
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
239
views
views
100
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
239
views
views