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Top people for #Writer / Author

Who actually defines Writer / Author — ranked by public attention, not insider opinion. 962 tracked, ranked on measured visibility — search interest, encyclopedic footprint, press, and social audience — not opinion, and rebuilt daily.

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Pope Francis

The people the world most associates with Writer / Author right now, concentrated in Italy, France, United States — 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	—	Miguel de Cervantes	Spain	Writers	97.7	10.0
#4	—	Virgil	Italy	Writers	97.3	10.0
#5	—	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	97.3	10.0
#6	—	Edgar Allan Poe	United States	Writers	95.5	10.0
#7	—	John Lennon	United Kingdom	Writers	94.9	11.0
#8	—	Franz Kafka	—	Writers	94.9	0.2
#9	—	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	94.8	1.5
#10	—	William Shakespeare	United Kingdom	Writers	94.4	0.0
#11	—	Julius Caesar	Italy	Writers	94.4	0.0
#12	—	Fyodor Dostoevsky	—	Writers	94.3	0.0
#13	—	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#14	—	Sigmund Freud	Austria	Writers	94.1	0.0
#15	—	Homer	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#16	—	Dante Alighieri	—	Writers	94.1	0.0
#17	—	Charles Dickens	United Kingdom	Writers	93.5	0.0
#18	—	George Orwell	United Kingdom	Writers	93.3	10.0
#19	—	J. R. R. Tolkien	United Kingdom	Writers	92.4	14.0
#20	—	James Joyce	—	Writers	92.1	10.0
#21	—	Jimmy Carter	United States	Writers	91.2	5.7
#22	—	Matsuo Bashō	Japan	Writers	91.2	15.0
#23	—	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	91.1	10.0
#24	—	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Writers	91.0	18.7
#25	—	Herodotus	Turkey	Writers	91.0	8.8
#26	—	Niccolò Machiavelli	—	Writers	90.9	0.0
#27	—	Li Bai	—	Writers	90.9	10.0
#28	—	Molière	France	Writers	90.6	0.0
#29	—	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	Writers	90.4	25.0
#30	—	Oscar Wilde	United Kingdom	Writers	90.3	0.0
#31	—	Lord Byron	United Kingdom	Writers	89.8	0.0
#32	—	Pope John Paul II	—	Writers	89.7	1.7
#33	—	Ernest Hemingway	United States	Writers	88.9	0.2
#34	—	Marco Polo	Italy	Writers	88.8	0.0
#35	—	Sophocles	—	Writers	88.8	0.0
#36	—	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	88.8	12.0
#37	—	Gabriel García Márquez	—	Writers	88.6	0.4
#38	—	Albert Camus	France	Writers	88.4	0.0
#39	—	Virginia Woolf	United Kingdom	Writers	88.0	10.9
#40	—	Jane Austen	United Kingdom	Writers	87.8	0.0
#41	—	Jules Verne	France	Writers	87.6	0.1
#42	—	Jean-Paul Sartre	France	Writers	87.0	0.0
#43	—	Jawaharlal Nehru	India	Writers	87.0	1.3
#44	—	Ovid	Italy	Writers	86.8	0.0
#45	—	Paul the Apostle	Turkey	Writers	86.5	0.0
#46	—	Vladimir Vysotsky	—	Writers	85.5	15.5
#47	—	Geoffrey Chaucer	—	Writers	85.3	2.8
#48	—	Thomas Mann	Germany	Writers	85.2	7.9
#49	—	Marcel Proust	France	Writers	85.2	0.4
#50	—	Helen Keller	United States	Writers	85.1	5.3
#51	—	Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom	Writers	84.9	0.0
#52	—	Kofi Annan	—	Writers	84.7	2.3
#53	—	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	84.3	15.0
#54	—	Seneca the Younger	—	Writers	84.0	15.0
#55	—	Abu Nuwas	—	Writers	83.9	21.9
#56	—	Maxim Gorky	—	Writers	83.5	0.0
#57	—	Charles, Prince of Wales	United Kingdom	Writers	83.5	0.0
#58	—	Octave Mirbeau	France	Writers	83.3	15.0
#59	—	Euripides	—	Writers	83.1	10.7
#60	—	Hafez	—	Writers	83.0	4.1
#61	—	John Milton	United Kingdom	Writers	83.0	11.2
#62	—	Charles Baudelaire	France	Writers	82.5	0.0
#63	—	Alexandre Dumas	France	Writers	82.4	0.0
#64	—	Heinrich Heine	Germany	Writers	82.3	1.6
#65	—	Paulo Coelho	Brazil	Writers	82.2	5.2
#66	—	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Writers	81.9	1.1
#67	—	Honoré de Balzac	France	Writers	81.8	0.0
#68	—	Walt Whitman	United States	Writers	81.8	10.9
#69	—	Peter Paul Rubens	Germany	Writers	81.7	0.2
#70	—	Rumi	—	Writers	81.7	2.3
#71	—	Ivan Turgenev	—	Writers	81.7	23.9
#72	—	William Faulkner	United States	Writers	81.6	10.0
#73	—	Isaac Asimov	—	Writers	81.6	0.0
#74	—	H. G. Wells	United Kingdom	Writers	81.5	0.6
#75	—	Anne Frank	Germany	Writers	81.3	0.0
#76	—	Kālidāsa	—	Writers	81.3	0.0
#77	—	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	France	Writers	81.2	0.0
#78	—	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	81.0	2.4
#79	—	Robert Louis Stevenson	United Kingdom	Writers	80.8	2.9
#80	—	Henrik Ibsen	Norway	Writers	80.7	0.0
#81	—	Florence Nightingale	—	Writers	80.6	2.9
#82	—	Khalil Gibran	Turkey	Writers	80.5	1.7
#83	—	Pablo Neruda	—	Writers	80.5	0.1
#84	—	Émile Zola	France	Writers	80.5	0.0
#85	—	Tacitus	—	Writers	80.5	10.0
#86	—	Francis of Assisi	Italy	Writers	80.3	10.0
#87	—	W. B. Yeats	—	Writers	80.2	2.2
#88	—	Horace	Italy	Writers	79.9	0.0
#89	—	John Keats	United Kingdom	Writers	79.9	10.0
#90	—	Eckhart Tolle	Germany	Writers	79.7	2.4
#91	—	Sappho	—	Writers	79.5	1.5
#92	—	Jonathan Swift	—	Writers	79.4	0.0
#93	—	Hermann Hesse	Germany	Writers	79.4	0.0
#94	—	Farah Pahlavi	—	Writers	79.2	16.7
#95	—	Thucydides	—	Writers	79.2	10.0
#96	—	Jaggi Vasudev	India	Writers	79.1	0.2
#97	—	T. S. Eliot	United States	Writers	79.0	0.0
#98	—	Murasaki Shikibu	Japan	Writers	78.9	0.6
#99	—	Plutarch	—	Writers	78.9	0.0
#100	—	George Eliot	United Kingdom	Writers	78.8	5.9