Trending Philosophers in Germany this month
The 100 most-viewed philosophers this month on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hanno Sauer.
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63,470
Total Views (this month)
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Hanno Sauer
German philosopher (1983-)
2,567
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2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
1,968
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3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
1,727
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4
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
1,581
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5
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
1,416
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6
Ines Schwerdtner
German journalist and politician
1,368
views
views
7
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
1,299
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views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
1,235
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views
9
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
1,204
views
views
10
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
1,087
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views
11
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
1,004
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views
12
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
954
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views
13
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
909
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views
14
Robert Habeck
German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025 (born 1969)
877
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views
15
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
876
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views
16
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
870
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views
17
Jesse Ventura
American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)
870
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views
18
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
854
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views
19
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
853
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views
20
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
852
views
views
21
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
851
views
views
22
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
818
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views
23
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
795
views
views
24
Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
793
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views
25
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
765
views
views
26
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
761
views
views
27
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
753
views
views
28
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
751
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views
29
Richard David Precht
German philosopher and author
749
views
views
30
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
739
views
views
31
Ahmad Mansour
German-Israeli psychologist and author
717
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views
32
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
669
views
views
33
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
649
views
views
34
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
644
views
views
35
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
644
views
views
36
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
616
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views
37
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
598
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views
38
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
588
views
views
39
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
587
views
views
40
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
577
views
views
41
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
573
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views
42
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
570
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views
43
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
565
views
views
44
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
562
views
views
45
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
560
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views
46
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
557
views
views
47
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
557
views
views
48
Joan Baez
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
538
views
views
49
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
529
views
views
50
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
529
views
views
51
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
517
views
views
52
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
508
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views
53
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
504
views
views
54
Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken
German Mystic, Writer and Painter (1876-1943)
482
views
views
55
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
473
views
views
56
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
466
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views
57
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
466
views
views
58
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
466
views
views
59
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
461
views
views
60
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
441
views
views
61
Bernd Lucke
German economist, professor, author (born 1962)
424
views
views
62
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
424
views
views
63
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
421
views
views
64
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
421
views
views
65
Pierre Goldman
French academic (1944–1979)
420
views
views
66
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
415
views
views
67
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
411
views
views
68
Georg Büchner
German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)
410
views
views
69
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
401
views
views
70
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
398
views
views
71
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
396
views
views
72
Harald Lesch
German physicist
395
views
views
73
Voltaire
French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
394
views
views
74
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
392
views
views
75
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
389
views
views
76
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
386
views
views
77
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
378
views
views
78
Max Frisch
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991)
374
views
views
79
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
373
views
views
80
Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
367
views
views
81
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
366
views
views
82
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935–2024)
366
views
views
83
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
360
views
views
84
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
354
views
views
85
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
353
views
views
86
Hartmut Rosa
German sociologist, philosoph and political scientist
350
views
views
87
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
339
views
views
88
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
339
views
views
89
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
337
views
views
90
Eckhart Tolle
German spiritual teacher and author
336
views
views
91
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
332
views
views
92
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
330
views
views
93
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
329
views
views
94
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
328
views
views
95
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
323
views
views
96
Hans Scholl
German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)
320
views
views
97
Diogenes of Sinope
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
318
views
views
98
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
315
views
views
99
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
314
views
views
100
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
313
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