Trending Historians — all time
The 100 most-viewed historians on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anne Carson. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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19,081,472
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Anne Carson
Canadian-Icelandic poet, academic and essayist (born 1950)
993,499
views
views
2
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
815,041
views
views
3
Jerry Hall
American model
648,251
views
views
4
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
607,224
views
views
5
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
357,069
views
views
6
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
348,345
views
views
7
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
303,710
views
views
8
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
283,861
views
views
9
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter (1946–2026)
273,172
views
views
10
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
268,084
views
views
11
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)
263,105
views
views
12
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
254,298
views
views
13
Angelina Jolie
American actress (born 1975)
254,198
views
views
14
Michael J. Fox
Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
252,226
views
views
15
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
251,924
views
views
16
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
249,499
views
views
17
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
242,297
views
views
18
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
239,491
views
views
19
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
226,662
views
views
20
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
222,083
views
views
21
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
219,123
views
views
22
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
215,865
views
views
23
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
215,726
views
views
24
Charles de Gaulle
French general and statesman (1890–1970)
215,087
views
views
25
Phil Collins
English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
214,222
views
views
26
Demi Moore
American actress and producer (born 1962)
207,939
views
views
27
Miranda Hart
English comedian
205,261
views
views
28
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
204,846
views
views
29
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942–2016)
203,683
views
views
30
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
201,787
views
views
31
Charlie Chaplin
English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
201,315
views
views
32
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
200,105
views
views
33
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
198,269
views
views
34
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
193,881
views
views
35
Matthew Perry
American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)
183,545
views
views
36
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
182,140
views
views
37
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
181,965
views
views
38
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
180,037
views
views
39
Tim Curry
British actor (1946–2026)
171,557
views
views
40
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)
171,247
views
views
41
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
170,275
views
views
42
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
167,146
views
views
43
Drew Barrymore
American actress (born 1975)
164,561
views
views
44
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
164,109
views
views
45
Hans-Thomas Tillschneider
German politician
162,337
views
views
46
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
161,491
views
views
47
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
160,738
views
views
48
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
157,537
views
views
49
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
156,506
views
views
50
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
154,923
views
views
51
Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
154,115
views
views
52
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
151,532
views
views
53
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
150,691
views
views
54
Michael Caine
English actor (born 1933)
150,235
views
views
55
Stevie Nicks
American singer and songwriter born 1948
148,244
views
views
56
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
147,851
views
views
57
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
146,341
views
views
58
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
146,101
views
views
59
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani children's education activist
146,078
views
views
60
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
143,536
views
views
61
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
142,174
views
views
62
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
141,639
views
views
63
Jane Fonda
American actress and activist
139,758
views
views
64
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025
139,630
views
views
65
Tina Turner
American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
136,888
views
views
66
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
134,303
views
views
67
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
133,881
views
views
68
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
133,470
views
views
69
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 (1923–2023)
132,278
views
views
70
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
131,662
views
views
71
George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States (1989–1993)
130,492
views
views
72
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
127,121
views
views
73
Sophia Loren
Italian actress (born 1934)
123,789
views
views
74
Malcolm X
American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
120,962
views
views
75
Cary Grant
British-American actor (1904–1986)
120,014
views
views
76
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
119,597
views
views
77
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
119,245
views
views
78
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
116,856
views
views
79
Jenny McCarthy
American actress, model, activist, television personality and author
113,113
views
views
80
Vittorio Sgarbi
Italian art critic, politician and television personality (born 1952)
112,960
views
views
81
Debbie Reynolds
American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)
112,699
views
views
82
Alex Ferguson
Scottish association football manager and former player (born 1941)
112,190
views
views
83
Gerald Ford
president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
111,813
views
views
84
Anna Kendrick
American actress (born 1985)
111,752
views
views
85
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
110,361
views
views
86
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
108,494
views
views
87
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
106,376
views
views
88
Roger Moore
English actor (1927–2017)
105,538
views
views
89
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
105,495
views
views
90
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
104,093
views
views
91
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
103,479
views
views
92
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
102,463
views
views
93
Chris Kyle
American war veteran and author (1974-2013)
101,679
views
views
94
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
101,129
views
views
95
John Cleese
English comedian and actor (born 1939)
98,631
views
views
96
Neil Young
Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker (born 1945)
98,509
views
views
97
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
98,441
views
views
98
Richard Burton
Welsh actor (1925–1984)
98,296
views
views
99
Hulk Hogan
American professional wrestler, actor and television personality (1953–2025)
97,242
views
views
100
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
96,974
views
views