Trending Poets in France — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed poets on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Mylène Farmer. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the French-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of France. 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
476,874
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Mylène Farmer
French singer and songwriter (born 1961)
30,368
views
views
2
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
23,010
views
views
3
Véronique Sanson
French singer-songwriter
16,654
views
views
4
Christophe Willem
French recording artist; singer
13,669
views
views
5
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
13,398
views
views
6
Grand Corps Malade
French poet and musician
12,284
views
views
7
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
9,768
views
views
8
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
8,413
views
views
9
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
8,335
views
views
10
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
7,865
views
views
11
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
7,446
views
views
12
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
6,815
views
views
13
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
6,793
views
views
14
Yves Montand
French-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)
6,654
views
views
15
Charles Aznavour
Armenian-French singer and diplomat (1924-2018)
6,552
views
views
16
Hugues Aufray
French singer
6,457
views
views
17
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
6,118
views
views
18
Benjamin Biolay
French singer and actor (born 1973)
5,828
views
views
19
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
5,738
views
views
20
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet (1854-1891)
5,701
views
views
21
François Corbier
French singer, musician and poet
5,637
views
views
22
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
5,354
views
views
23
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
5,309
views
views
24
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
5,262
views
views
25
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
5,246
views
views
26
Guy de Maupassant
French writer (1850-1893)
5,225
views
views
27
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
5,084
views
views
28
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
4,990
views
views
29
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
4,822
views
views
30
Voltaire
French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
4,754
views
views
31
Julien Clerc
French singer-songwriter
4,690
views
views
32
Francis Lalanne
French singer
4,603
views
views
33
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
4,599
views
views
34
Régine Zylberberg
Belgian singer
4,556
views
views
35
Jacques Brel
Belgian singer (1929–1978)
4,449
views
views
36
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist (1830-1905)
4,390
views
views
37
Molière
French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
4,371
views
views
38
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
4,334
views
views
39
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
4,261
views
views
40
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
4,239
views
views
41
Georges Brassens
French musician, singer-songwriter and poet (1921–1981)
4,235
views
views
42
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
4,052
views
views
43
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
3,961
views
views
44
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
3,943
views
views
45
Marie Laforêt
French-Swiss singer and actress
3,934
views
views
46
Bourvil
French actor and singer (1917–1970)
3,906
views
views
47
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
3,903
views
views
48
Jacques Dutronc
French actor and musician
3,847
views
views
49
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
3,721
views
views
50
Richard Bohringer
French actor, director, producer
3,716
views
views
51
Sylvie Vartan
French singer, chansonnier, and actress (born 1944)
3,695
views
views
52
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
3,564
views
views
53
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
3,492
views
views
54
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
3,460
views
views
55
Michel Sardou
French singer
3,277
views
views
56
Michel Delpech
French singer (1946–2016)
3,201
views
views
57
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
3,194
views
views
58
Pete Doherty
English musician, actor and poet (born 1979)
3,118
views
views
59
Michel Houellebecq
French writer
3,109
views
views
60
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
3,078
views
views
61
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
3,004
views
views
62
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
2,973
views
views
63
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
2,952
views
views
64
Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic (1821–1867)
2,946
views
views
65
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
2,919
views
views
66
Jean Ferrat
French singer-songwriter and poet
2,907
views
views
67
Barbara
French recording artist; singer-songwriter (1930–1997)
2,886
views
views
68
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
2,833
views
views
69
Charles Trenet
French singer-songwriter
2,759
views
views
70
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
2,759
views
views
71
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
2,747
views
views
72
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
2,743
views
views
73
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
2,730
views
views
74
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
2,670
views
views
75
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
2,656
views
views
76
Charles Maurras
French author, politician, poet, and critic (1868–1952)
2,593
views
views
77
Clara Ysé
French singer and writer
2,570
views
views
78
Christophe Maé
French pop singer (born 1975)
2,563
views
views
79
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
2,556
views
views
80
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
2,547
views
views
81
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
2,473
views
views
82
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
2,470
views
views
83
Gaël Faye
Burundi-Rwandan-French singer and writer (born 1982)
2,415
views
views
84
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
2,380
views
views
85
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
2,293
views
views
86
David
king of Israel and Judah
2,284
views
views
87
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
2,279
views
views
88
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
2,264
views
views
89
Juliette Binoche
French actress, artist and dancer (born 1964)
2,260
views
views
90
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
2,260
views
views
91
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
2,236
views
views
92
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
2,212
views
views
93
Étienne de La Boétie
French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)
2,175
views
views
94
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
2,169
views
views
95
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
2,166
views
views
96
Paul Verlaine
French poet (1844-1896)
2,163
views
views
97
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
2,160
views
views
98
Henri Salvador
French Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter (1917–2008)
2,160
views
views
99
Pauline Julien
Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
2,152
views
views
100
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
2,143
views
views
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