Trending Historians this week
The 99 most-viewed historians this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Michael Jackson.
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274,917
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Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)
21,218
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Barack Obama
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)
6,880
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3
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
6,803
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4
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
6,741
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5
Joe Jackson
American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928–2018)
6,425
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6
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942–2016)
6,317
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7
Katherine Jackson
matriarch of the Jackson musical family
6,019
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8
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
5,922
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views
9
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
4,840
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10
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
4,475
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11
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
4,254
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12
Serena Williams
American tennis player (1981)
4,221
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13
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
4,128
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14
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
4,017
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15
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
3,930
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16
Victor Davis Hanson
American classicist and military historian
3,808
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17
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
3,739
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18
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
3,707
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views
19
Angelina Jolie
American actress, humanitarian and filmmaker (born 1975)
3,378
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views
20
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
3,338
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views
21
Maggie Haberman
American journalist (born 1973)
3,330
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views
22
Tina Turner
American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
3,221
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views
23
Rik Mayall
English actor, comedian and writer (1958–2014)
3,199
views
views
24
George H. W. Bush
president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1924-2018)
3,136
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views
25
Hulk Hogan
American professional wrestler, actor and television personality (1953–2025)
3,049
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views
26
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
2,989
views
views
27
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
2,922
views
views
28
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
2,906
views
views
29
Calvin Coolidge
president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
2,831
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views
30
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
2,773
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views
31
Gilda Radner
American actress and comedian (1946–1989)
2,761
views
views
32
Michael J. Fox
Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
2,666
views
views
33
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
2,642
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views
34
Dolly Parton
American singer, songwriter and actress
2,629
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views
35
Stevie Nicks
American singer and songwriter
2,628
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36
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
2,518
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views
37
Demi Moore
American actress and producer (born 1962)
2,518
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38
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
2,482
views
views
39
Bill Clinton
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)
2,438
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views
40
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
2,422
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views
41
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
2,409
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views
42
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
2,408
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43
Anjelica Huston
American actress (born 1951)
2,352
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views
44
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist (born 1954)
2,333
views
views
45
Drew Barrymore
American actress (born 1975)
2,287
views
views
46
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
2,267
views
views
47
Charlie Chaplin
English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
2,255
views
views
48
Phil Collins
English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
2,220
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views
49
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
2,199
views
views
50
Richard Pryor
American comedian and actor (1940–2005)
2,186
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views
51
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
2,117
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views
52
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
2,097
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views
53
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
2,084
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views
54
Gerald Ford
president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
2,063
views
views
55
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
2,056
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views
56
Debbie Reynolds
American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)
2,018
views
views
57
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)
2,014
views
views
58
Sammy Davis Jr.
American entertainer (1925–1990)
1,984
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59
Michael Caine
English actor (born 1933)
1,968
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views
60
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
1,940
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61
Elizabeth Smart
American activist
1,931
views
views
62
Hilaire Belloc
French-English writer (1870–1953)
1,899
views
views
63
Tim Curry
British actor
1,892
views
views
64
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
1,852
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views
65
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
1,851
views
views
66
Malcolm X
American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
1,833
views
views
67
Rue McClanahan
American actress and comedian (1934-2010)
1,813
views
views
68
Jane Fonda
American actress and activist
1,787
views
views
69
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
1,742
views
views
70
Matthew Perry
American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)
1,686
views
views
71
Cary Grant
British-American actor (1904–1986)
1,673
views
views
72
Anna Kendrick
American actress (born 1985)
1,670
views
views
73
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)
1,637
views
views
74
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
1,637
views
views
75
Tina Fey
American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
1,632
views
views
76
George S. Patton
United States Army general (1885–1945)
1,627
views
views
77
John Quincy Adams
President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
1,601
views
views
78
Sam Shepard
American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
1,572
views
views
79
Betty Mahmoody
American writer
1,572
views
views
80
Kyrie Irving
American basketball player
1,566
views
views
81
Neil Young
Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker (born 1945)
1,560
views
views
82
Melissa Gilbert
American actress
1,504
views
views
83
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907–2003)
1,484
views
views
84
Steve Coogan
English actor and comedian
1,482
views
views
85
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
1,473
views
views
86
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American biographer and historian (born 1943)
1,459
views
views
87
Nick Tosches
American writer (1949–2019)
1,452
views
views
88
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
1,442
views
views
89
Trevor Noah
South African comedian and television host
1,426
views
views
90
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
1,426
views
views
91
Judi Dench
English actress (born 1934)
1,396
views
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92
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
1,393
views
views
93
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
1,387
views
views
94
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
1,383
views
views
95
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
1,364
views
views
96
Bill Murray
American actor and comedian
1,353
views
views
97
Boris Johnson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
1,341
views
views
98
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
1,330
views
views
99
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
1,312
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