Trending Poets this month
The 100 most-viewed poets this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Lisa Marie Presley.
100
Ranked
1,454,281
Total Views (this month)
1
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
110,698
views
views
2
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
67,582
views
views
3
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
58,788
views
views
4
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
49,268
views
views
5
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
44,718
views
views
6
Philippe Léotard
French singer and actor (1940-2001)
33,036
views
views
7
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
31,239
views
views
8
Lenny Kravitz
American rock musician
30,469
views
views
9
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
24,400
views
views
10
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
24,033
views
views
11
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
23,562
views
views
12
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
23,033
views
views
13
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
22,219
views
views
14
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
21,452
views
views
15
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
21,015
views
views
16
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
20,598
views
views
17
Ali Khamenei
cleric and former Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 (1939–2026)
19,617
views
views
18
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
19,354
views
views
19
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
18,151
views
views
20
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
17,961
views
views
21
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
16,582
views
views
22
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
16,079
views
views
23
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
15,753
views
views
24
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
15,744
views
views
25
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
15,581
views
views
26
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
15,552
views
views
27
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
14,941
views
views
28
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
14,703
views
views
29
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
14,647
views
views
30
Stas Piekha
Russian actor and singer
13,433
views
views
31
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
13,238
views
views
32
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
13,013
views
views
33
David
king of Israel and Judah
12,842
views
views
34
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
12,734
views
views
35
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
12,573
views
views
36
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
12,497
views
views
37
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
12,459
views
views
38
Amber Tamblyn
American actress and writer
12,126
views
views
39
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
11,896
views
views
40
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
11,872
views
views
41
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
11,721
views
views
42
Björk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
11,505
views
views
43
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
11,430
views
views
44
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
11,369
views
views
45
Zoya Boguslavskaya
Russian literary critic
11,239
views
views
46
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
10,815
views
views
47
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
10,715
views
views
48
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
10,418
views
views
49
Charles Bronson
English criminal
10,337
views
views
50
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
10,312
views
views
51
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
10,182
views
views
52
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
10,107
views
views
53
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
9,924
views
views
54
Misha Collins
American actor
9,894
views
views
55
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
9,830
views
views
56
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
9,773
views
views
57
John Denver
American singer (1943–1997)
9,515
views
views
58
Michaela Coel
British actress and screenwriter
9,292
views
views
59
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
9,164
views
views
60
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
9,095
views
views
61
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
8,935
views
views
62
Sylvie Vartan
French singer, chansonnier, and actress (born 1944)
8,711
views
views
63
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
8,640
views
views
64
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
8,589
views
views
65
Morrissey
British singer and songwriter
8,085
views
views
66
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
7,973
views
views
67
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946–2006)
7,960
views
views
68
Muthuvel Karunanidhi
Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1924–2018)
7,953
views
views
69
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
7,836
views
views
70
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
7,827
views
views
71
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
7,714
views
views
72
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
7,599
views
views
73
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841–1882)
7,569
views
views
74
Sonja Sohn
American actress, activist (b. 1964)
7,466
views
views
75
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
7,321
views
views
76
Jewel
American singer-songwriter
7,319
views
views
77
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
7,300
views
views
78
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
7,285
views
views
79
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,272
views
views
80
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942–2013)
7,226
views
views
81
Todd Rundgren
American musician, songwriter, and record producer
7,225
views
views
82
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
7,143
views
views
83
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
6,981
views
views
84
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
6,874
views
views
85
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
6,822
views
views
86
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
6,791
views
views
87
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician
6,726
views
views
88
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
6,702
views
views
89
David Malouf
Australian writer
6,689
views
views
90
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
6,670
views
views
91
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
6,466
views
views
92
Yuki Saito
Japanese actress and singer
6,463
views
views
93
Mehmed II
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
6,403
views
views
94
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
6,356
views
views
95
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
6,311
views
views
96
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
6,284
views
views
97
Billy Corgan
American musician
6,204
views
views
98
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
6,183
views
views
99
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
6,159
views
views
100
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
6,154
views
views
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