Trending Poets this week
The 100 most-viewed poets this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tennessee Williams.
100
Ranked
1,610,494
Total Views (this week)
1
Tennessee Williams
American playwright (1911–1983)
131,895
views
views
2
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
63,376
views
views
3
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
53,446
views
views
4
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
49,256
views
views
5
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
48,887
views
views
6
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
42,821
views
views
7
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
40,338
views
views
8
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
29,818
views
views
9
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
29,653
views
views
10
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
27,200
views
views
11
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
26,887
views
views
12
Mamata Banerjee
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
23,661
views
views
13
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
22,522
views
views
14
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
21,607
views
views
15
Lenny Kravitz
American rock musician
21,126
views
views
16
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
20,314
views
views
17
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
20,120
views
views
18
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
20,017
views
views
19
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
19,876
views
views
20
Björk
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
19,864
views
views
21
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
19,093
views
views
22
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
18,911
views
views
23
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
18,116
views
views
24
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
17,999
views
views
25
Ali Khamenei
cleric and former Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 (1939–2026)
17,771
views
views
26
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
17,713
views
views
27
Bashir Badr
Indian poet of Urdu
16,796
views
views
28
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
16,025
views
views
29
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
14,757
views
views
30
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
14,711
views
views
31
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
13,991
views
views
32
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
13,950
views
views
33
John Denver
American singer (1943–1997)
13,798
views
views
34
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
13,537
views
views
35
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
13,534
views
views
36
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
13,514
views
views
37
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
13,501
views
views
38
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
13,117
views
views
39
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
13,061
views
views
40
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
12,213
views
views
41
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
12,081
views
views
42
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
11,972
views
views
43
Voltaire
French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
11,852
views
views
44
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
11,492
views
views
45
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
11,438
views
views
46
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
11,416
views
views
47
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
11,401
views
views
48
Michael Madsen
American actor (1957–2025)
11,173
views
views
49
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
11,093
views
views
50
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician
11,072
views
views
51
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
11,038
views
views
52
David
king of Israel and Judah
11,033
views
views
53
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
10,756
views
views
54
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946–2006)
10,570
views
views
55
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
10,570
views
views
56
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
10,490
views
views
57
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841–1882)
10,407
views
views
58
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
10,404
views
views
59
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
10,375
views
views
60
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
10,269
views
views
61
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
10,183
views
views
62
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
10,107
views
views
63
LaKeith Stanfield
American actor and rapper
10,096
views
views
64
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
10,077
views
views
65
Art Garfunkel
American singer (born 1941)
10,054
views
views
66
Morrissey
British singer and songwriter
10,035
views
views
67
Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
9,998
views
views
68
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
9,954
views
views
69
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
9,855
views
views
70
Joni Mitchell
Canadian musician
9,596
views
views
71
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
9,526
views
views
72
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
9,483
views
views
73
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
9,247
views
views
74
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
9,205
views
views
75
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
9,073
views
views
76
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942–2013)
9,035
views
views
77
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
9,023
views
views
78
Mehmed II
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
8,979
views
views
79
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
8,918
views
views
80
Charles Bronson
English criminal
8,736
views
views
81
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931–2015)
8,726
views
views
82
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
8,678
views
views
83
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
8,532
views
views
84
Bo Burnham
American comedian
8,492
views
views
85
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
8,398
views
views
86
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
8,185
views
views
87
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
8,160
views
views
88
Henry Rollins
American musician
8,131
views
views
89
Billy Corgan
American musician
8,113
views
views
90
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
7,995
views
views
91
Garth Brooks
American country music singer and songwriter
7,931
views
views
92
Jewel
American singer-songwriter
7,901
views
views
93
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
ruler of Dubai (born 1949)
7,786
views
views
94
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
7,699
views
views
95
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
7,574
views
views
96
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
7,538
views
views
97
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
7,514
views
views
98
Masiela Lusha
Albanian American actress and author
7,466
views
views
99
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
7,437
views
views
100
Common
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
7,364
views
views
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