Trending Poets of all time
The 100 most-viewed poets of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stevie Wonder.
100
Ranked
900,362
Total Views (of all time)
1
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
51,072
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2
Björk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
42,655
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3
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
31,654
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views
4
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
29,352
views
views
5
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
28,419
views
views
6
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
23,988
views
views
7
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
22,219
views
views
8
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
21,772
views
views
9
Shel Silverstein
American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999)
21,313
views
views
10
Kishore Kumar
Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)
19,920
views
views
11
Pauley Perrette
American actress and musician
18,322
views
views
12
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
18,127
views
views
13
Jewel
American singer-songwriter
17,883
views
views
14
Olivera Katarina
Serbian actor, singer and writer
17,464
views
views
15
Pliny the Elder
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
17,287
views
views
16
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
16,659
views
views
17
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
15,838
views
views
18
Javed Akhtar
Indian writer, poet and lyricist
15,778
views
views
19
Babur
founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
14,097
views
views
20
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
14,034
views
views
21
Michaela Coel
British actress and screenwriter
13,009
views
views
22
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
12,234
views
views
23
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
12,023
views
views
24
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757–1854)
10,742
views
views
25
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
10,731
views
views
26
Marcus Junius Brutus
assassin of Julius Caesar
10,661
views
views
27
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
10,515
views
views
28
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
9,820
views
views
29
Qianlong Emperor
emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)
9,499
views
views
30
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
9,258
views
views
31
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
8,932
views
views
32
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
8,478
views
views
33
Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician, literary man and humanist
8,247
views
views
34
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
8,069
views
views
35
Gil Scott-Heron
American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author (1949–2011)
7,782
views
views
36
Rakim
American rapper
7,561
views
views
37
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
7,181
views
views
38
Rade Šerbedžija
Croatian actor
7,084
views
views
39
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
6,848
views
views
40
K’naan
Somali-Canadian musician
6,847
views
views
41
Mu'awiya I
founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680)
6,654
views
views
42
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
6,615
views
views
43
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889–1963)
6,504
views
views
44
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
6,212
views
views
45
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
6,120
views
views
46
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
6,060
views
views
47
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
6,005
views
views
48
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
5,803
views
views
49
Wilkie Collins
British writer (1824-1889)
5,677
views
views
50
Bayezid I
fourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389–1402)
5,264
views
views
51
Zhu Su
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 30174
5,225
views
views
52
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor (1919–1972)
5,195
views
views
53
Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland (2011–2018; 2018–2025)
5,147
views
views
54
Lucretius
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
5,088
views
views
55
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
5,024
views
views
56
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
57
Charles Bronson
English criminal
4,900
views
views
58
Wilfred Owen
English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
4,745
views
views
59
Vera Sola
American-Canadian musician and actress
4,660
views
views
60
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
4,598
views
views
61
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
4,563
views
views
62
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901-1978)
4,387
views
views
63
Serge Monast
Canadian writer
4,377
views
views
64
Báb
founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh
4,310
views
views
65
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
4,291
views
views
66
Rebecca Pidgeon
British actor and singer-songwriter
4,277
views
views
67
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
4,212
views
views
68
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
4,211
views
views
69
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
4,102
views
views
70
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
4,078
views
views
71
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
3,964
views
views
72
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
3,949
views
views
73
Talib Kweli
American rapper from New York
3,828
views
views
74
Nur Jahan
Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire (1577-1645)
3,822
views
views
75
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,787
views
views
76
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
3,769
views
views
77
Louise Glück
U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
3,750
views
views
78
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
3,712
views
views
79
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957–2025)
3,693
views
views
80
John Berger
British painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)
3,680
views
views
81
David
king of Israel and Judah
3,530
views
views
82
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
3,502
views
views
83
Jean Genet
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)
3,482
views
views
84
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
3,456
views
views
85
Amir Khusrau
Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)
3,409
views
views
86
Dora Maar
French photographer and painter (1907–1997)
3,375
views
views
87
Phillis Wheatley
first African-American poet (1753–1784)
3,354
views
views
88
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886–1967)
3,338
views
views
89
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,319
views
views
90
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)
3,314
views
views
91
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Shah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896
3,282
views
views
92
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
3,228
views
views
93
Mohammad Imran garh
poet
3,221
views
views
94
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931–2015)
3,217
views
views
95
Crispin Glover
American actor
3,216
views
views
96
Bulleh Shah
Punjabi poet
3,216
views
views
97
John Reed
American journalist, poet, and communist activist
3,076
views
views
98
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
3,075
views
views
99
Virgil
Roman poet (1st century BC)
3,072
views
views
100
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
3,057
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