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Top 100 Writers tagged #Philosophy

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The most famous writers associated with Philosophy right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Pope Francis	Argentina	Writers	94.2	30.8
#2	new	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	—	Writers	93.9	6.5
#3	new	Rabindranath Tagore	India	Writers	91.3	10.0
#4	new	Fyodor Dostoevsky	—	Writers	90.4	2.1
#5	new	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	90.3	1.2
#6	new	Dante Alighieri	—	Writers	89.2	0.0
#7	new	Sigmund Freud	Austria	Writers	89.0	0.3
#8	new	Voltaire	France	Writers	88.8	0.0
#9	new	Li Bai	—	Writers	86.7	16.0
#10	new	Sophocles	—	Writers	84.8	0.0
#11	new	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	84.8	12.0
#12	new	Geoffrey Chaucer	—	Writers	82.5	2.8
#13	new	Sun Tzu	—	Writers	82.0	6.8
#14	new	Euripides	—	Writers	81.1	10.7
#15	new	Ibn Khaldun	—	Writers	79.8	1.5
#16	new	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	France	Writers	79.7	0.0
#17	new	Rumi	—	Writers	79.6	1.7
#18	new	Khalil Gibran	Turkey	Writers	79.2	1.7
#19	new	Horace	Italy	Writers	78.8	0.0
#20	new	Eckhart Tolle	Germany	Writers	78.6	2.4
#21	new	William Blake	United Kingdom	Writers	78.6	0.0
#22	new	Jonathan Swift	—	Writers	78.4	0.0
#23	new	Hermann Hesse	Germany	Writers	78.4	0.0
#24	new	Murasaki Shikibu	Japan	Writers	78.1	0.6
#25	new	George Eliot	United Kingdom	Writers	78.0	5.9
#26	new	Taras Shevchenko	—	Writers	78.0	10.0
#27	new	Umberto Eco	Italy	Writers	77.1	0.1
#28	new	Michel de Montaigne	France	Writers	76.8	2.2
#29	new	Ayn Rand	—	Writers	76.8	15.2
#30	new	Maurice Maeterlinck	—	Writers	76.7	16.7
#31	new	Aldous Huxley	United Kingdom	Writers	76.0	0.0
#32	new	Henry David Thoreau	United States	Writers	75.9	0.0
#33	new	Sima Qian	China	Writers	75.3	0.3
#34	new	Sully Prudhomme	France	Writers	74.4	10.9
#35	new	Mario Vargas Llosa	—	Writers	74.4	1.5
#36	new	Averroes	Spain	Writers	73.6	0.9
#37	new	C. S. Lewis	United Kingdom	Writers	73.4	0.0
#38	new	Novalis	Germany	Writers	73.1	10.8
#39	new	Teresa of Ávila	Spain	Writers	72.7	15.0
#40	new	Elias Canetti	United Kingdom	Writers	72.4	15.0
#41	new	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	Writers	72.3	0.0
#42	new	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	India	Writers	72.2	1.1
#43	new	Pliny the Elder	—	Writers	72.0	0.0
#44	new	Carl von Clausewitz	Germany	Writers	71.9	16.0
#45	new	Lucretius	Italy	Writers	71.7	1.4
#46	new	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Writers	71.7	3.0
#47	new	Elie Wiesel	United States	Writers	71.5	10.0
#48	new	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Germany	Writers	71.0	15.0
#49	new	Zhu Xi	China	Writers	70.9	0.0
#50	new	Kurt Vonnegut	United States	Writers	70.7	0.0
#51	new	Octavio Paz	Mexico	Writers	70.0	0.0
#52	new	Solon	—	Writers	69.5	0.3
#53	new	John Ruskin	United Kingdom	Writers	69.4	0.0
#54	new	Halldór Laxness	—	Writers	69.3	15.2
#55	new	Susan Sontag	United States	Writers	68.0	10.0
#56	new	Fernando Pessoa	Portugal	Writers	67.5	0.2
#57	new	Friedrich Hölderlin	Germany	Writers	67.2	3.4
#58	new	Nizami Ganjavi	—	Writers	66.9	31.5
#59	new	Rajneesh	India	Writers	66.8	1.2
#60	new	Apuleius	—	Writers	66.6	1.2
#61	new	Nikos Kazantzakis	—	Writers	66.5	14.9
#62	new	Stanisław Lem	—	Writers	66.5	0.1
#63	new	Lucian	Turkey	Writers	66.2	0.0
#64	new	Jean-François Champollion	France	Academics	66.0	16.7
#65	new	Philip K. Dick	United States	Writers	65.7	0.0
#66	new	José Martí	Spain	Writers	65.3	0.0
#67	new	Jami	—	Writers	65.2	18.6
#68	new	Kabir	India	Writers	65.0	0.9
#69	new	Rudolf Steiner	—	Writers	65.0	3.2
#70	new	Alexander Herzen	Switzerland	Writers	65.0	20.1
#71	new	Ibn Taymiyyah	Turkey	Writers	64.7	12.2
#72	new	Miguel de Unamuno	Spain	Writers	64.0	0.0
#73	new	Paul Valéry	France	Writers	63.8	0.0
#74	new	Amir Khusrow	India	Writers	63.6	17.1
#75	new	Germaine de Staël	France	Writers	63.4	0.0
#76	new	Oswald Spengler	Germany	Writers	63.4	0.0
#77	new	Isabelle de Charrière	Netherlands	Writers	63.2	0.0
#78	new	Olympe de Gouges	France	Writers	63.1	3.1
#79	new	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	France	Writers	62.9	0.0
#80	new	Arnold J. Toynbee	United Kingdom	Writers	62.4	1.8
#81	new	Arthur Koestler	United Kingdom	Writers	62.1	10.8
#82	new	Anton LaVey	United States	Writers	61.8	4.7
#83	new	Friedrich Schlegel	Germany	Writers	61.7	15.0
#84	new	Petronius	—	Writers	61.7	0.0
#85	new	Guru Gobind Singh	India	Writers	61.4	16.4
#86	new	Helena Blavatsky	—	Writers	61.2	1.0
#87	new	Christine de Pizan	France	Writers	61.0	0.0
#88	new	Diogenes Laërtius	—	Writers	60.6	15.0
#89	new	Attar of Nishapur	—	Writers	60.5	7.1
#90	new	Shams Tabrizi	—	Writers	60.3	12.3
#91	new	René Guénon	France	Writers	60.2	10.0
#92	new	Rabia of Basra	—	Writers	59.8	7.6
#93	new	Ramon Llull	Spain	Writers	59.6	0.9
#94	new	Hippolyte Taine	France	Writers	59.5	0.3
#95	new	Bridget of Sweden	Sweden	Writers	59.5	4.3
#96	new	Nichiren	Japan	Writers	59.4	10.0
#97	new	Milarepa	—	Writers	59.3	13.0
#98	new	Ernst Jünger	Germany	Writers	59.1	0.0
#99	new	Arrian	—	Writers	59.1	10.7
#100	new	Thomas à Kempis	Germany	Writers	59.0	0.0