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Trending Novelists of all time

The 100 most-viewed novelists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marjane Satrapi.

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1
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969–2026)
πŸ“š 56 citations Person
471,466
views
2
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
64,475
views
3
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
51,779
views
4
Rupert Everett
British actor
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
44,143
views
5
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
38,149
views
6
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
37,746
views
7
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
36,261
views
8
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
πŸ“š 59 citations Person
32,620
views
9
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
Person
32,405
views
10
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
32,298
views
11
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
31,127
views
12
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
29,774
views
13
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
29,250
views
14
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
πŸ“š 60 citations Person
28,468
views
15
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
28,368
views
16
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
28,197
views
17
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
Person
27,985
views
18
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
26,855
views
19
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
πŸ“š 66 citations Person
25,950
views
20
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
πŸ“š 145 citations Person
25,937
views
21
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
25,663
views
22
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
25,601
views
23
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
πŸ“š 62 citations Person
25,535
views
24
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
25,276
views
25
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
24,803
views
26
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
24,125
views
27
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
23,744
views
28
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
23,503
views
29
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
23,440
views
30
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
22,178
views
31
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
21,928
views
32
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
21,630
views
33
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
20,754
views
34
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
20,625
views
35
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
πŸ“š 65 citations Person
20,021
views
36
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
19,987
views
37
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
19,365
views
38
MacKenzie Scott
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
19,068
views
39
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
πŸ“š 118 citations Person
18,773
views
40
Ann Patchett
American novelist and memoirist
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
18,567
views
41
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
πŸ“š 65 citations Person
18,425
views
42
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
18,419
views
43
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
18,249
views
44
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
18,171
views
45
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
18,033
views
46
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
17,852
views
47
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
17,381
views
48
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
17,312
views
49
John Grisham
American writer (born 1955)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
17,045
views
50
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
πŸ“š 60 citations Person
16,948
views
51
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
16,811
views
52
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
16,805
views
53
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
16,789
views
54
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
16,661
views
55
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
16,077
views
56
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
πŸ“š 109 citations Person
15,865
views
57
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
15,800
views
58
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
Person
15,577
views
59
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
πŸ“š 68 citations Person
15,234
views
60
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
15,168
views
61
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
15,147
views
62
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
15,093
views
63
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
15,080
views
64
Emily BrontΓ«
Emily BrontΓ«
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
14,883
views
65
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
14,770
views
66
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
14,744
views
67
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
14,589
views
68
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
πŸ“š 83 citations Person
14,492
views
69
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
14,415
views
70
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
πŸ“š 71 citations Person
14,398
views
71
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
14,382
views
72
Dawn French
British actress, comedian and writer (born 1957)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
14,334
views
73
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
14,177
views
74
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
14,082
views
75
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pΓ©piniΓ©riste and inventor (born 1939)
πŸ“š 91 citations Person
14,073
views
76
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
13,913
views
77
Mick Foley
American professional wrestler
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
13,868
views
78
Diana Gabaldon
American author (born 1952)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
13,771
views
79
Lauren Graham
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
13,689
views
80
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
13,547
views
81
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
13,519
views
82
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
πŸ“š 51 citations Person
13,391
views
83
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
13,358
views
84
Peter Craig
American novelist and screenwriter
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
13,285
views
85
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
πŸ“š 68 citations Person
13,239
views
86
Stephen Collins
American actor
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
13,138
views
87
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
πŸ“š 62 citations Person
13,135
views
88
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
13,133
views
89
Craig Ferguson
British actor
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
13,018
views
90
Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
12,790
views
91
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
12,702
views
92
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
12,697
views
93
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
12,217
views
94
KhloΓ© Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
12,182
views
95
Thomas More
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
12,111
views
96
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
American actress (born 1931)
πŸ“š 16 citations Person
12,095
views
97
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
πŸ“š 62 citations Person
12,048
views
98
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
11,860
views
99
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
11,845
views
100
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
πŸ“š 68 citations Person
11,841
views