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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Allen Ginsberg	7,048
2	Jack Kerouac	6,085
3	William S. Burroughs	3,963
4	Ken Kesey	1,601
5	Neal Cassady	1,369
6	Peter Orlovsky	1,327
7	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	681
8	Frank O'Hara	614
9	Amiri Baraka	580
10	Richard Brautigan	484
11	Gary Snyder	477
12	Paul Bowles	409
13	Carl Solomon	312
14	Gregory Corso	286
15	William S. Burroughs, Jr.	231
16	Charles Olson	195
17	Tuli Kupferberg	184
18	Robert Creeley	180
19	Michael McClure	178
20	Denise Levertov	173
21	Ed Sanders	155
22	Jane Bowles	150
23	Carolyn Cassady	142
24	Kenneth Rexroth	131
25	Herbert Huncke	124
26	Anne Waldman	103
27	Robert Duncan (poet)	101
28	John Clellon Holmes	88
29	Jack Spicer	85
30	Diane di Prima	84
31	Kenneth Koch	83
32	Bob Kaufman	71
33	Philip Whalen	54
34	Jeff Nuttall	51
35	Joyce Johnson	49
36	Ed Dorn	44
37	Neeli Cherkovski	44
38	Lew Welch	43
39	Elise Cowen	38
40	Joanne Kyger	32
41	Walt Curtis	32
42	Daniel Terdiman	30
43	Ted Joans	28
44	John Wieners	23
45	Michael John Fles	22
46	Jack Micheline	20
47	Sinclair Beiles	19
48	Dick McBride (poet)	18
49	Harriet Sohmers Zwerling	17
50	Kirby Doyle	15
51	Janine Pommy Vega	14
52	Eric "Big Daddy" Nord	14
53	Naked Lens: Beat Cinema	13
54	Slim Brundage	less than 5 views
55	Puffer Volpe	less than 5 views
56	Václav Hrabě	less than 5 views
57	Joffre Stewart	less than 5 views

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Parent categories

• Beat Generation
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