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The most-searched, most-followed people in Literature. 1,685 tracked, sorted by the attention they pull across search, Wikipedia, the news cycle, and social platforms, recalculated every day.

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The people the world most associates with Literature right now, concentrated in United States, France, Italy — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Pope Francis	Argentina	Writers	99.0	20.8
#2	—	Martin Luther King Jr.	United States	Writers	97.8	10.0
#3	—	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	97.3	10.0
#4	—	John Lennon	United Kingdom	Writers	94.9	11.0
#5	—	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#6	—	Charles Dickens	United Kingdom	Writers	93.5	0.0
#7	—	George Orwell	United Kingdom	Writers	93.3	10.0
#8	—	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	91.1	10.0
#9	—	Niccolò Machiavelli	—	Writers	90.9	0.0
#10	—	Marco Polo	Italy	Writers	88.8	0.0
#11	1	Henry Ford	United States	Founders	88.4	1.4
#12	1	Albert Camus	France	Writers	88.4	0.0
#13	—	Jane Austen	United Kingdom	Writers	87.8	0.0
#14	—	Jawaharlal Nehru	India	Writers	87.0	1.3
#15	—	Paul the Apostle	Turkey	Writers	86.5	0.0
#16	—	Saddam Hussein	—	Journalists	85.7	3.8
#17	—	Helen Keller	United States	Writers	85.1	5.3
#18	—	Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom	Writers	84.9	0.0
#19	—	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	84.3	15.0
#20	—	Maxim Gorky	—	Writers	83.5	0.0
#21	—	Charles, Prince of Wales	United Kingdom	Writers	83.5	0.0
#22	—	Paulo Coelho	Brazil	Writers	82.2	5.2
#23	—	Walt Whitman	United States	Writers	81.8	10.9
#24	—	Ivan Turgenev	—	Writers	81.7	23.9
#25	—	H. G. Wells	United Kingdom	Writers	81.5	0.6
#26	—	Anne Frank	Germany	Writers	81.3	0.0
#27	—	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	81.3	0.0
#28	—	Florence Nightingale	—	Writers	80.6	2.9
#29	—	Khalil Gibran	Turkey	Writers	80.5	1.7
#30	—	Eckhart Tolle	Germany	Writers	79.7	2.4
#31	—	Farah Pahlavi	—	Writers	79.2	16.7
#32	—	Jaggi Vasudev	India	Writers	79.1	0.2
#33	—	Anatole France	France	Writers	78.7	0.0
#34	—	Mary Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	78.7	10.4
#35	—	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Writers	78.6	10.0
#36	—	Ho Chi Minh	—	Writers	78.4	0.0
#37	—	Eleanor Roosevelt	United States	Writers	78.4	1.4
#38	—	François Rabelais	France	Writers	77.8	7.4
#39	—	Knut Hamsun	Norway	Writers	77.6	6.2
#40	—	George Sand	France	Writers	77.6	3.5
#41	—	Joseph Conrad	—	Writers	77.2	10.0
#42	—	John Steinbeck	United States	Writers	77.2	0.0
#43	—	Maurice Maeterlinck	—	Writers	77.0	16.7
#44	—	Chanakya	—	Writers	77.0	2.5
#45	—	Salman Rushdie	United Kingdom	Writers	76.9	5.9
#46	—	Václav Havel	—	Writers	76.9	1.2
#47	—	Stefan Zweig	Austria	Writers	76.8	9.1
#48	—	Emily Dickinson	United States	Writers	76.7	0.0
#49	—	Anna Akhmatova	—	Writers	76.5	5.2
#50	—	Jack London	United States	Writers	76.2	0.0
#51	—	Boris Pasternak	—	Writers	76.0	1.2
#52	—	Samuel Beckett	—	Writers	75.6	0.6
#53	—	Doris Lessing	United Kingdom	Writers	75.2	1.9
#54	—	Pope John Paul I	Italy	Writers	75.2	3.1
#55	—	Yusuf al-Qaradawi	Egypt	Writers	74.7	15.1
#56	—	Herta Müller	Germany	Writers	74.7	4.6
#57	—	Romain Rolland	France	Writers	74.5	0.0
#58	—	Ivo Andrić	—	Writers	74.4	21.8
#59	—	Giosuè Carducci	Italy	Writers	74.2	5.6
#60	—	Peter Kropotkin	—	Writers	74.1	17.7
#61	—	J. D. Vance	United States	Writers	74.1	15.0
#62	—	Toni Morrison	United States	Writers	74.0	0.8
#63	—	Yukio Mishima	Japan	Writers	73.8	6.2
#64	—	Stendhal	France	Writers	73.8	0.0
#65	—	Francis Fukuyama	United States	Writers	73.8	0.2
#66	—	Erich von Däniken	Switzerland	Writers	73.7	0.2
#67	—	Grazia Deledda	Italy	Writers	73.6	4.4
#68	—	Rainer Maria Rilke	Germany	Writers	73.4	0.0
#69	—	C. S. Lewis	United Kingdom	Writers	73.4	0.0
#70	—	Dan Brown	United States	Writers	73.1	10.0
#71	—	Shirin Ebadi	—	Writers	73.1	6.6
#72	—	Louisa May Alcott	United States	Writers	72.8	10.0
#73	—	Teresa of Ávila	Spain	Writers	72.7	15.0
#74	—	Alice Munro	Canada	Writers	72.5	1.0
#75	—	Yasunari Kawabata	Japan	Writers	72.4	0.9
#76	—	Elias Canetti	United Kingdom	Writers	72.4	15.0
#77	—	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	India	Writers	72.2	1.1
#78	—	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria	Writers	72.2	1.0
#79	—	Pliny the Elder	—	Writers	72.0	0.0
#80	—	Carl von Clausewitz	Germany	Business Professionals	71.9	16.0
#81	—	Bobby Fischer	United States	Writers	71.8	0.2
#82	—	Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	Writers	71.7	0.0
#83	—	Guru Nanak	—	Writers	71.6	16.0
#84	—	Alexandre Dumas fils	France	Writers	71.6	15.0
#85	—	Svetlana Alexievich	—	Writers	71.6	1.3
#86	—	Elie Wiesel	United States	Writers	71.5	10.0
#87	—	F. Scott Fitzgerald	United States	Writers	71.5	0.0
#88	—	Bertha von Suttner	—	Writers	71.2	13.1
#89	—	Saul Bellow	United States	Writers	71.2	0.0
#90	—	Bahá'u'lláh	—	Writers	70.9	12.8
#91	—	Ivan Bunin	France	Writers	70.8	0.0
#92	—	François Mauriac	France	Writers	70.8	1.9
#93	—	Gao Xingjian	China	Writers	70.6	10.0
#94	—	Frédéric Mistral	France	Writers	70.4	0.0
#95	—	Thomas Hardy	United Kingdom	Writers	70.0	0.0
#96	—	Imre Kertész	—	Writers	69.8	15.3
#97	—	Ursula K. Le Guin	United States	Writers	69.7	0.0
#98	1	Napoleon Hill	United States	Writers	69.7	0.6
#99	1	J. D. Salinger	United States	Writers	69.7	0.0
#100	—	William Golding	United Kingdom	Writers	69.7	0.0

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