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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Antoine Watteau	458
2	Mary Read	445
3	Alexander Selkirk	408
4	Pope Clement XI	266
5	Elihu Yale	258
6	Grinling Gibbons	115
7	John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby	111
8	Charles Vane	80
9	Marguerite Louise d'Orléans	70
10	Pierre Daniel Huet	52
11	Matthew Prior	49
12	Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein	49
13	Walter Kennedy (pirate)	48
14	James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope	43
15	Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet	43
16	Anthony Morris (I)	43
17	Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough	37
18	John Keill	33
19	John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland	31
20	Edward Colston	28
21	Maria Barbara Carillo	28
22	Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore	28
23	Pierre-Louis Cretey	26
24	Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew	25
25	Maharaja Churaman	25
26	Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt	25
27	Thomas Doggett	24
28	Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow	24
29	Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg	24
30	Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne	24
31	Maria Ersdotter	23
32	Rudolf Jakob Camerarius	22
33	Rebecca Eames	22
34	Catherina Margaretha Linck	21
35	Louis Laguerre	20
36	James Craggs the Younger	20
37	James Craggs the Elder	20
38	António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquess of Minas	20
39	Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721)	20
40	William Musgrave	19
41	Françoise Pitel	19
42	Edward Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick	19
43	Louis Dominique Bourguignon	18
44	Franciszek Lubomirski	17
45	Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness	17
46	John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter	17
47	Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721)	16
48	François de Mailly	16
49	François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage	16
50	Christian Friedrich Hunold	15
51	Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet	15
52	William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey	14
53	William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale	14
54	Walter Moyle	13
55	Nikola Bošković	12
56	Salomon Blosset de Loche	12
57	Gerard Thomas	12
58	Michel Chamillart	11
59	Andrea dell'Asta	11
60	Luigi Garzi	11
61	Henri Arnaud	10
62	William Darrell	10
63	John Mapletoft	10
64	Philip Bisse	9
65	George Nevill, 13th Baron Bergavenny	9
66	Francesco Antonio Caneti	9
67	Gerhard Johann von Löwenwolde	9
68	Juan Núñez de la Peña	8
69	Jan Antonín Losy	8
70	Thomas Acton	8
71	Verónica I of Matamba	8
72	Thomas Abney	8
73	Michael Brokoff	7
74	Giacomo Maria Airoli	7
75	Robert Challe	7
76	Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 12th Duke of Medina Sidonia	7
77	Jacques Lelong	6
78	Jacques Paisible	6
79	Pacificus of San Severino	6
80	Rupa Bhavani	6
81	Giuseppe Ghezzi	6
82	David Martin (French divine)	6
83	Pierre Coustant	6
84	Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet	6
85	John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne	6
86	Isaac Sailmaker	6
87	Caleb Heathcote	less than 5 views
88	Joseph Fiametta	less than 5 views
89	Jose Risueño	less than 5 views
90	Egoku Domyo	less than 5 views
91	Denzil Onslow (of Pyrford)	less than 5 views
92	Thomas Vernon (lawyer)	less than 5 views
93	Sir John Mordaunt, 5th Baronet	less than 5 views
94	John Anderson (theologian and controversialist)	less than 5 views
95	Charlwood Lawton	less than 5 views
96	Nicolas Desmarets	less than 5 views
97	Jean Palaprat	less than 5 views
98	John Gale (theologian)	less than 5 views
99	Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet	less than 5 views
100	Magnus von Wedderkop	less than 5 views
101	Alexander Arbuthnot (Baron of Exchequer)	less than 5 views
102	Nicola Malinconico	less than 5 views
103	Bonaventura Lamberti	less than 5 views
104	Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti	less than 5 views
105	Sackville Tufton	less than 5 views
106	Francis Hastings of Madras	less than 5 views
107	Charles Eyston	less than 5 views
108	François Pagi	less than 5 views
109	Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet	less than 5 views
110	John Faber Senior	less than 5 views
111	Sir John Kirwan	less than 5 views
112	Bernhardus Albinus	less than 5 views
113	Abraham Alewijn	less than 5 views
114	Jerónimo de Carrión	less than 5 views
115	Carlo Francesco Bizzacheri	less than 5 views
116	Benoît Audran the Elder	less than 5 views
117	Carlo Antonio Spinola	less than 5 views

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