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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Walt Disney	19,707
2	Stephen Colbert	15,365
3	Donald Trump	13,227
4	Dr. Seuss	6,925
5	Kurt Vonnegut	6,891
6	John Steinbeck	6,273
7	Herbert Hoover	5,770
8	Sylvia Plath	5,526
9	Roger Ebert	5,344
10	Charles Bukowski	4,890
11	Nicholas Sparks (author)	4,764
12	Ron Paul	4,591
13	Maria Shriver	3,563
14	Mae West	3,500
15	Keith Olbermann	2,901
16	H. L. Mencken	2,794
17	Gloria Steinem	2,132
18	Gertrude Stein	1,999
19	Danielle Steel	1,997
20	Henry Miller	1,880
21	Thomas Mann	1,784
22	Jenna Hager	1,701
23	L. Frank Baum	1,427
24	Erich Maria Remarque	1,056
25	Peter Hermann	1,030
26	Joseph Pulitzer	794
27	Walter Lippmann	724
28	August Wilson	700
29	Mary Astor	662
30	Theodore Dreiser	654
31	Anita Desai	538
32	Chip Taylor	535
33	Louise Erdrich	509
34	David Eisenhower	491
35	Nick Clooney	405
36	Andrew Weil	322
37	Theodore Roethke	320
38	Carl Schurz	316
39	Natalie Clifford Barney	294
40	Max Ehrmann	293
41	John Eisenhower	267
42	Peter Viertel	246
43	Rudolf Arnheim	222
44	George DiCaprio	204
45	Dorothy Thompson	194
46	Siegfried Kracauer	161
47	Betty Smith	155
48	Klaus Mann	146
49	Gus Kahn	133
50	Hans Massaquoi	116
51	Golo Mann	99
52	Susan Eisenhower	94
53	Curt Siodmak	57
54	Oswald Garrison Villard	56
55	George Sylvester Viereck	52
56	Henry Villard	50
57	David Schow	50
58	Paul Carus	48
59	George Schuyler	47
60	Paul Dresser	46
61	Stefan Heym	42
62	William Langewiesche	37
63	Monika Mann	34
64	Walter Charles Langer	31
65	Hans Wilhelm	29
66	Nora Okja Keller	27
67	Joseph Kesselring	26
68	Anna Thomas	25
69	Ludwig Lewisohn	23
70	Dieter Cunz	22
71	Gustav Körner	22
72	Charles Follen	21
73	Thomas Zimmerman	20
74	Isaac Kaufmann Funk	19
75	Richard Plant (writer)	18
76	Oskar Seidlin	17
77	Herman Rosenthal	16
78	Charles Astor Bristed	14
79	Wolfgang Zuckermann	13
80	Charles Nordhoff (journalist)	13
81	John Adolphus Etzler	13
82	Ann Cotten	12
83	Anna Balmer Myers	11
84	William Moritz	11
85	Joseph Weydemeyer	11
86	Ida G. Athens	11
87	Fritz Anneke	11
88	Wolfgang W.E. Samuel	10
89	Bryan Malessa	10
90	Vivien Spitz	10
91	Edmund von Mach	9
92	Klaus Ottmann	8
93	August Mencken, Jr.	6
94	Kimberly M. Blaeser	6
95	Louise Adeline Weitzel	6
96	Solomon DeLong	less than 5 views
97	Martin Ebon	less than 5 views
98	Anthony Maas	less than 5 views
99	Harold Schindler	less than 5 views
100	H. L. Fischer	less than 5 views

Parent categories

• American people of German descent by occupation
• American writers by ethnic or national origin
• German-American culture