Trending Poets in Germany — the 7 days to 28 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed poets on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 28 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: John Lennon. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the German-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Germany. 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
575,741
Total Views (the 7 days to 28 October 2026)
1
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
20,812
views
views
2
Wolf Biermann
German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident
19,748
views
views
3
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
17,612
views
views
4
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
15,764
views
views
5
Torsten Sträter
German writer, satirist and stand-up comedian
14,640
views
views
6
Till Lindemann
German singer (born 1963)
13,054
views
views
7
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
12,346
views
views
8
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
12,290
views
views
9
Reinhard Mey
German singer-songwriter
10,776
views
views
10
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
10,347
views
views
11
Carl Zuckmayer
German writer and playwright (1896-1977)
10,243
views
views
12
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,953
views
views
13
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
9,762
views
views
14
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
9,467
views
views
15
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
9,013
views
views
16
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931–2015)
8,625
views
views
17
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
8,377
views
views
18
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
8,133
views
views
19
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
8,042
views
views
20
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
8,004
views
views
21
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
7,964
views
views
22
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
7,785
views
views
23
Lisa Eckhart
Austrian entertainer, literary standup comedian, novelist and former poetry slammer
7,521
views
views
24
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
6,677
views
views
25
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
6,485
views
views
26
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
6,179
views
views
27
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
6,020
views
views
28
Klaus Mann
German writer (1906–1949)
5,809
views
views
29
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
5,743
views
views
30
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
5,722
views
views
31
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
5,583
views
views
32
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
5,537
views
views
33
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
5,402
views
views
34
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,374
views
views
35
Gottfried Benn
German physician, poet, and essayist (1886–1956)
5,296
views
views
36
Erich Kästner
German children's writer (1899–1974)
5,275
views
views
37
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
5,239
views
views
38
Clara Lösel
German author and poet
5,147
views
views
39
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
5,044
views
views
40
Till Reiners
German writer
4,988
views
views
41
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
4,921
views
views
42
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
4,899
views
views
43
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
4,894
views
views
44
Werner Lindemann
German writer (1926–1993)
4,845
views
views
45
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
4,830
views
views
46
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
4,790
views
views
47
Gustaf Gründgens
German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)
4,709
views
views
48
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
4,664
views
views
49
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
4,656
views
views
50
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
4,474
views
views
51
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
4,454
views
views
52
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
4,449
views
views
53
Heinrich Heine
German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
4,396
views
views
54
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
4,241
views
views
55
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
4,233
views
views
56
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
4,099
views
views
57
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
4,072
views
views
58
Jean Paul
German Romantic writer (1763-1825)
4,013
views
views
59
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
3,975
views
views
60
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
3,914
views
views
61
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
3,910
views
views
62
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
3,905
views
views
63
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
3,822
views
views
64
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
3,816
views
views
65
Heinz Erhardt
German comedian and entertainer (1909-1979)
3,803
views
views
66
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
3,796
views
views
67
Fabian Köster
German comedian and comedy writer
3,761
views
views
68
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
3,728
views
views
69
Michael Ende
German writer (1929–1995)
3,724
views
views
70
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
3,558
views
views
71
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
3,555
views
views
72
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
3,550
views
views
73
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
3,323
views
views
74
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
3,314
views
views
75
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
3,312
views
views
76
Judith Holofernes
German singer-songwriter, podcaster and writer
3,306
views
views
77
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
3,278
views
views
78
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
3,278
views
views
79
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
3,160
views
views
80
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
3,160
views
views
81
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
3,159
views
views
82
Heinrich von Kleist
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)
3,093
views
views
83
Günter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
3,088
views
views
84
Sebastian 23
German slam poet, author and comedian
3,081
views
views
85
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
3,075
views
views
86
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
3,071
views
views
87
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
3,061
views
views
88
Georg Büchner
German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)
3,053
views
views
89
Karl May
German writer (1842–1912)
3,012
views
views
90
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
3,011
views
views
91
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
3,000
views
views
92
Hildegard Knef
German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)
2,926
views
views
93
Theodor Fontane
German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
2,923
views
views
94
John Denver
American singer (1943–1997)
2,887
views
views
95
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician (born 1950)
2,885
views
views
96
Art Garfunkel
American singer, actor, and poet (born 1941)
2,860
views
views
97
E. T. A. Hoffmann
German writer (1776-1822)
2,854
views
views
98
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
2,795
views
views
99
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
2,787
views
views
100
Hazel Brugger
Swiss comedian
2,735
views
views
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