Trending Philosophers of all time
The 100 most-viewed philosophers of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Mahatma Gandhi.
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Ranked
766,126
Total Views (of all time)
Country
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1
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869β1948)
67,819
views
views
2
Desmond Doss
American solder, pacifist, and combat medic; recipient of the Purple Heart medal, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1919β2007) Un gran hombre
57,702
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,174
views
views
4
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
24,544
views
views
5
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874β1926)
23,717
views
views
6
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894β1963)
18,127
views
views
7
Pliny the Elder
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24β79)
17,287
views
views
8
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
17,217
views
views
9
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,662
views
views
10
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
16,571
views
views
11
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
14,587
views
views
12
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954β2013)
12,947
views
views
13
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942β2023)
12,888
views
views
14
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
12,234
views
views
15
Steve Earle
American musician
12,071
views
views
16
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909β1943)
12,023
views
views
17
Christine Grady
nurse-bioethicist and researcher
11,813
views
views
18
Marcus Junius Brutus
assassin of Julius Caesar
10,661
views
views
19
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
10,107
views
views
20
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
9,820
views
views
21
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
9,748
views
views
22
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
9,002
views
views
23
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961β1997)
8,976
views
views
24
Hermes Trismegistus
purported author of the Hermetic Corpus
8,933
views
views
25
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
8,443
views
views
26
Chanakya
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy.
8,054
views
views
27
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
7,906
views
views
28
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588β1679)
7,796
views
views
29
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748β1832)
7,624
views
views
30
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
7,460
views
views
31
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842β1910)
7,333
views
views
32
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946β2000)
7,078
views
views
33
William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
6,936
views
views
34
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
6,835
views
views
35
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855β1926)
6,503
views
views
36
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892β1940)
6,495
views
views
37
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897β1957)
6,373
views
views
38
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
6,005
views
views
39
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
5,803
views
views
40
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
5,789
views
views
41
Lyndon LaRouche
American political activist (1922β2019)
5,676
views
views
42
Jill Stein
American politician and physician (born 1950)
5,533
views
views
43
Mollie Steimer
Russian anarchist (1897-1980)
5,326
views
views
44
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
5,243
views
views
45
Lucretius
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
5,088
views
views
46
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842β1921)
5,056
views
views
47
Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480β524)
5,023
views
views
48
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
49
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735β1826)
4,964
views
views
50
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
4,849
views
views
51
Marianne Williamson
American author and politician
4,581
views
views
52
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
4,490
views
views
53
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
3,964
views
views
54
David Myatt
British writer, former neo-Nazi and former Islamist
3,921
views
views
55
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
3,857
views
views
56
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891β1956)
3,837
views
views
57
Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican activist (1957-)
3,774
views
views
58
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
3,738
views
views
59
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905β1982)
3,665
views
views
60
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
3,571
views
views
61
Lee Kuan Yew
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923β2015)
3,548
views
views
62
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
3,456
views
views
63
Amir Khusrau
Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253β1325)
3,409
views
views
64
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921β1997)
3,314
views
views
65
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905β1983)
3,276
views
views
66
Bulleh Shah
Punjabi poet
3,216
views
views
67
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
3,057
views
views
68
Mani
3rd century prophet and founder of Manichaeism
3,056
views
views
69
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50βc. 138)
2,929
views
views
70
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469β1527)
2,777
views
views
71
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
2,762
views
views
72
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist (1958β2006)
2,742
views
views
73
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928β1982)
2,629
views
views
74
David Bentley Hart
American author, theologian, and philosopher
2,621
views
views
75
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
2,615
views
views
76
Jesse Ventura
American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)
2,557
views
views
77
KimberlΓ© Crenshaw
American legal academic (born 1959)
2,552
views
views
78
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher (1928β2017)
2,514
views
views
79
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
2,475
views
views
80
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922β2007)
2,457
views
views
81
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
2,406
views
views
82
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,388
views
views
83
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rΕnin (1584β1645)
2,372
views
views
84
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832β1898)
2,290
views
views
85
John Kerry
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
2,187
views
views
86
Vandana Shiva
Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)
2,183
views
views
87
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian (1889β1975)
2,169
views
views
88
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861β1941)
2,159
views
views
89
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
2,135
views
views
90
Karl Loewenstein
German philosopher and political scientist (1891β1973)
2,102
views
views
91
Peter Sloterdijk
German philosopher (born 1947)
2,038
views
views
92
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
2,037
views
views
93
Bennett Foddy
Australian video game developer and philosopher
2,023
views
views
94
Ismail al-Faruqi
Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (1921β1986)
2,004
views
views
95
Rumi
Iranian poet
1,934
views
views
96
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,927
views
views
97
Agnes Callard
American philosopher
1,916
views
views
98
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926β1984)
1,911
views
views
99
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872β1970)
1,893
views
views
100
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
1,880
views
views
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