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Top people for #Poetry

The figures driving the most attention in Poetry today. 633 tracked, ranked on measured visibility — search interest, encyclopedic footprint, press, and social audience — not opinion, and rebuilt daily.

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

#PoetryTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

633 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Virgil	Italy	Writers	97.3	10.0
#2	—	Edgar Allan Poe	United States	Writers	95.5	10.0
#3	—	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	94.8	1.5
#4	—	Fyodor Dostoevsky	—	Writers	94.3	0.0
#5	—	Homer	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#6	—	Dante Alighieri	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#7	—	J. R. R. Tolkien	United Kingdom	Writers	92.4	14.0
#8	—	James Joyce	—	Writers	92.1	10.0
#9	—	Matsuo Bashō	Japan	Writers	91.2	15.0
#10	—	Li Bai	—	Writers	90.9	10.0
#11	—	Oscar Wilde	United Kingdom	Writers	90.3	0.0
#12	—	Lord Byron	United Kingdom	Writers	89.8	0.0
#13	—	Pope John Paul II	—	Writers	89.7	1.7
#14	—	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	88.8	12.0
#15	—	Ovid	Italy	Writers	86.8	0.0
#16	—	Vladimir Vysotsky	—	Writers	85.5	15.5
#17	—	Geoffrey Chaucer	—	Writers	85.3	2.8
#18	—	Abu Nuwas	—	Writers	83.9	21.9
#19	—	Hafez	—	Writers	83.0	4.1
#20	—	John Milton	United Kingdom	Writers	83.0	11.2
#21	—	Charles Baudelaire	France	Writers	82.5	0.0
#22	—	Heinrich Heine	Germany	Writers	82.3	1.6
#23	—	Rumi	—	Writers	81.7	2.3
#24	—	Kālidāsa	—	Writers	81.3	0.0
#25	—	Robert Louis Stevenson	United Kingdom	Writers	80.8	2.9
#26	—	Pablo Neruda	—	Writers	80.5	0.1
#27	—	Francis of Assisi	Italy	Writers	80.3	10.0
#28	—	W. B. Yeats	—	Writers	80.2	2.2
#29	—	Horace	Italy	Writers	79.9	0.0
#30	—	John Keats	United Kingdom	Writers	79.9	10.0
#31	—	Sappho	—	Writers	79.5	1.5
#32	—	Jonathan Swift	—	Writers	79.4	0.0
#33	—	Arthur Rimbaud	France	Writers	78.8	3.5
#34	—	Du Fu	China	Writers	78.7	10.0
#35	—	Nero	Italy	Writers	78.2	3.8
#36	—	Giovanni Boccaccio	Italy	Writers	77.3	0.0
#37	—	Jean de La Fontaine	France	Writers	76.6	0.9
#38	—	Aldous Huxley	United Kingdom	Writers	76.0	0.0
#39	—	Henry David Thoreau	United States	Writers	75.9	0.0
#40	—	Zoroaster	—	Writers	75.7	0.0
#41	—	Emily Brontë	United Kingdom	Writers	75.4	0.0
#42	—	Percy Bysshe Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	75.3	0.0
#43	—	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway	Writers	74.8	16.2
#44	—	L. L. Zamenhof	—	Writers	74.7	0.0
#45	—	Mikhail Lermontov	—	Writers	74.5	2.7
#46	—	William Wordsworth	United Kingdom	Writers	74.5	0.0
#47	—	Sully Prudhomme	France	Writers	74.4	10.9
#48	—	Richard I of England	United Kingdom	Writers	74.3	15.7
#49	—	Ferdowsi	—	Writers	74.1	2.1
#50	—	Charlotte Brontë	United Kingdom	Writers	74.0	0.0
#51	—	David	—	Models	74.0	0.0
#52	—	Saadi Shirazi	—	Writers	73.7	14.2
#53	—	Robert Frost	United States	Writers	73.3	1.3
#54	—	Novalis	Germany	Writers	73.1	10.8
#55	—	Herman Melville	United States	Writers	72.6	0.0
#56	—	Adam Mickiewicz	—	Academics	72.3	0.0
#57	—	Luís de Camões	Portugal	Writers	72.2	6.2
#58	—	Lu Xun	China	Writers	71.9	0.0
#59	—	Nadine Gordimer	South Africa	Writers	71.9	1.4
#60	—	Lucretius	Italy	Writers	71.7	1.4
#61	—	Hesiod	Turkey	Writers	71.7	0.2
#62	—	Giacomo Casanova	Italy	Writers	71.4	25.3
#63	—	Vladimir Mayakovsky	—	Writers	71.3	0.0
#64	—	Paul Verlaine	France	Writers	71.0	1.5
#65	—	Joseph Brodsky	—	Writers	71.0	0.0
#66	—	Zhu Xi	China	Writers	70.9	0.0
#67	—	Nelly Sachs	Germany	Writers	70.8	9.8
#68	—	Sylvia Plath	United States	Writers	70.7	0.6
#69	—	Gabriela Mistral	—	Writers	70.5	0.0
#70	—	Czesław Miłosz	—	Writers	70.3	0.0
#71	—	Wisława Szymborska	—	Writers	70.3	0.0
#72	—	James VI and I	United Kingdom	Writers	70.0	16.5
#73	—	Octavio Paz	Mexico	Writers	70.0	0.0
#74	—	Catullus	Italy	Writers	69.6	0.0
#75	—	Paul Heyse	—	Writers	69.5	15.7
#76	—	Solon	—	Writers	69.5	0.3
#77	—	Menander	—	Writers	69.1	5.1
#78	—	Fernando Pessoa	Portugal	Writers	68.8	1.6
#79	—	Tomas Tranströmer	Sweden	Writers	68.4	3.6
#80	—	Aisha	—	Writers	68.3	0.4
#81	—	Sergei Yesenin	—	Writers	68.3	0.0
#82	—	François Villon	France	Writers	68.3	9.5
#83	—	Juvenal	Italy	Writers	68.2	1.2
#84	—	Ezra Pound	United States	Writers	68.1	0.0
#85	—	Babur	—	Writers	67.8	0.0
#86	—	Anne Brontë	United Kingdom	Writers	67.5	0.0
#87	—	Hugo Grotius	Netherlands	Writers	67.4	17.6
#88	—	Guillaume Apollinaire	France	Writers	67.4	0.0
#89	—	Pindar	—	Writers	67.2	0.0
#90	—	Friedrich Hölderlin	Germany	Writers	67.2	3.4
#91	—	Nizami Ganjavi	—	Writers	66.9	31.5
#92	—	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	United Kingdom	Writers	66.8	10.0
#93	—	Fatimah	—	Writers	66.4	0.0
#94	—	Juan Ramón Jiménez	Spain	Writers	66.2	0.0
#95	—	W. H. Auden	United Kingdom	Writers	66.1	1.2
#96	1	Miguel Ángel Asturias	—	Writers	66.0	0.0
#97	1	Stéphane Mallarmé	France	Writers	66.0	25.0
#98	—	John Donne	—	Writers	66.0	0.5
#99	—	Lesya Ukrainka	—	Writers	65.8	2.4
#100	—	Selim I	Turkey	Writers	65.5	1.3