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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, Rapper | 94251 |
| 2 | Barack Obama, American president | 59441 |
| 3 | Kim Kardashian, socialite and television personality | 53998 |
| 4 | Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet and critic | 42534 |
| 5 | Bill Gates, mother was of Scottish descent. | 41258 |
| 6 | Marilyn Monroe, actress | 39642 |
| 7 | George W. Bush | 27676 |
| 8 | Thomas Jefferson, American president | 26793 |
| 9 | Elvis Presley, singer | 25952 |
| 10 | Matt Damon, actor | 24755 |
| 11 | Bruce Willis, actor | 24415 |
| 12 | Ronald Reagan, American president | 23745 |
| 13 | Donald Trump, business magnate and television personality | 23180 |
| 14 | Kurt Cobain | 22975 |
| 15 | Kristen Stewart | 20572 |
| 16 | Theodore Roosevelt, American president | 19626 |
| 17 | Richard Nixon, American president | 19489 |
| 18 | Jennifer Aniston (maternal grandfather of Scottish ancestry) | 18944 |
| 19 | Johnny Cash, singer | 17463 |
| 20 | Hilary Duff, actress and singer | 15799 |
| 21 | Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer best known with The Black Eyed Peas | 15578 |
| 22 | Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor | 15428 |
| 23 | Mark Twain, author | 15366 |
| 24 | Ben Affleck, actor/writer/director (father was Scottish-American) | 15174 |
| 25 | Malcolm X, militant and religious leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. with the assistance of Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, 1965, | 14781 |
| 26 | Mel Gibson (Clan Buchanan), actor and director (Braveheart) | 14554 |
| 27 | Brandon Flowers, singer and keyboardist of The Killers | 14117 |
| 28 | Alicia Keys, mother of Scottish descent | 13834 |
| 29 | Andrew Jackson, American president | 13572 |
| 30 | Woodrow Wilson, American president | 13167 |
| 31 | Jim Morrison, singer/poet. Father of Scottish descent, mother of English descent. | 12596 |
| 32 | John Wayne, actor (mother Scots-Irish, father Scottish) | 12403 |
| 33 | Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury | 11889 |
| 34 | Neil Armstrong, astronaut | 11664 |
| 35 | Seth MacFarlane writer of Family Guy | 11621 |
| 36 | James Dean, actor | 11300 |
| 37 | Tina Fey, Comedic actress and writer (father Scottish/German heritage) | 11170 |
| 38 | John Malkovich | 11099 |
| 39 | Ulysses S. Grant, military leader and American president | 10947 |
| 40 | Lyndon B. Johnson, American president | 10529 |
| 41 | Harry S. Truman, American president | 10396 |
| 42 | Carrie Underwood, country singer | 10083 |
| 43 | Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone | 10045 |
| 44 | Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born chairman and director of NewsCorp | 10020 |
| 45 | Jesse McCartney, American singer | 9899 |
| 46 | Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, producer, and singer | 9745 |
| 47 | Alice Cooper, Rock Singer | 9742 |
| 48 | Steve McQueen, American actor | 9353 |
| 49 | Sigourney Weaver, actress | 9343 |
| 50 | Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist and Steel | 9034 |
| 51 | Jack Black, Actor, Singer, and Comedian | 8987 |
| 52 | Michael Phelps | 8967 |
| 53 | Tom Selleck, actor | 8748 |
| 54 | Gwen Stefani, singer | 8738 |
| 55 | Reese Witherspoon, actress (Scottish ancestor John D. Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence) | 8655 |
| 56 | Axl Rose (lead singer from Guns and Roses from Scottish German descent) | 8310 |
| 57 | Skeet Ulrich Father German, mother Scottish | 8244 |
| 58 | Jensen Ackles, emmy-nominated actor | 8128 |
| 59 | George S. Patton, American general | 8013 |
| 60 | Katharine Hepburn | 7732 |
| 61 | Val Kilmer, Actor | 7723 |
| 62 | Tom Waits, singer/songwriter | 7613 |
| 63 | Meat Loaf | 7608 |
| 64 | Seth Green | 7508 |
| 65 | Jackson Pollock, artist | 7452 |
| 66 | Christopher Walken, actor | 7274 |
| 67 | Jessica Simpson, singer | 7261 |
| 68 | Sara Paxton | 7247 |
| 69 | Liev Schreiber, actor | 7179 |
| 70 | Indiana Jones, fictional archeologist, associate dean, college professor, adventurer and soldier | 7102 |
| 71 | William McKinley, American president | 6950 |
| 72 | Tobey McGuire, American actor | 6935 |
| 73 | Billie Joe Armstrong, Singer/Guitarist for Green Day | 6861 |
| 74 | Robert Frost, poet | 6845 |
| 75 | Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence | 6821 |
| 76 | Lucille Ball, actress and comedienne (father was Scottish-American) | 6738 |
| 77 | Drew Carey, comedic actor and game show host | 6719 |
| 78 | William Howard Taft, American president | 6668 |
| 79 | William Faulkner, author | 6597 |
| 80 | Jesse Tyler Ferguson | 6551 |
| 81 | Grover Cleveland, American president | 6397 |
| 82 | Drake Bell | 6384 |
| 83 | Douglas MacArthur, American general | 6382 |
| 84 | Jack White aka John Anthony Gillis, of The White Stripes | 6341 |
| 85 | Julianne Moore, actress | 6247 |
| 86 | James Hetfield, singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica | 6224 |
| 87 | Mickey Rooney, actor | 6158 |
| 88 | J. D. Salinger, writer of Catcher in the Rye </ref> | 6145 |
| 89 | Tim McGraw, American country music singer (father is Scots-Irish, mother is Italian-Irish) | 6114 |
| 90 | David Carradine, actor, director, and martial artist | 5956 |
| 91 | John McCain, Senator of Arizona | 5940 |
| 92 | Casey Affleck, actor | 5893 |
| 93 | Andrew Johnson, American president | 5744 |
| 94 | Lance Armstrong, 7 time Tour de France winner | 5625 |
| 95 | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism, through his mother Lucy Mack Smith | 5598 |
| 96 | Bruce Campbell actor, producer and director | 5578 |
| 97 | Warren G. Harding, American president | 5472 |
| 98 | Ava Gardner | 5315 |
| 99 | Wyatt Earp | 5310 |
| 100 | Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance | 5303 |
| 101 | Charlton Heston | 5193 |
| 102 | Alicia Silverstone, actress | 5107 |
| 103 | Newt Gingrich, American politician | 5062 |
| 104 | Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian | 5052 |
| 105 | Dick Van Dyke, actor | 5052 |
| 106 | Larry Hagman, actor, best known for the role of J.R. Ewing in the television series, Dallas | 5016 |
| 107 | Michael Cole, play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment | 4805 |
| 108 | Jay Leno (1950 - ) comedian, former actor, primarily known as host of The Tonight Show; mother was from west lowland Scotland. | 4663 |
| 109 | James Monroe, American president | 4599 |
| 110 | Michael Keaton (Real name Micheal Douglas), actor. | 4590 |
| 111 | David Duchovny, actor (mother Scottish) | 4588 |
| 112 | Davy Crockett, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and a defender of the Alamo | 4532 |
| 113 | James Buchanan, American president | 4484 |
| 114 | Linda Blair, most famous for her role in the 1973 film The Exorcist | 4427 |
| 115 | Ted Danson | 4415 |
| 116 | Joan Baez | 4339 |
| 117 | James K. Polk, American president | 4309 |
| 118 | John Hancock, first signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence | 4290 |
| 119 | Ashlee Simpson, singer/actress | 4274 |
| 120 | Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general | 4205 |
| 121 | Ray Liotta, actor | 4204 |
| 122 | Heather Locklear, actress | 4203 |
| 123 | Colin Powell, Chief of Staff | 4175 |
| 124 | Michael Crichton, author | 4073 |
| 125 | Brad Paisley, country music singer | 4073 |
| 126 | Jack Lemmon | 4009 |
| 127 | Rutherford B. Hayes, American president | 3978 |
| 128 | Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer | 3772 |
| 129 | Reba McEntire | 3656 |
| 130 | Donald Sutherland, actor | 3614 |
| 131 | Chester A. Arthur, American president | 3395 |
| 132 | Lou Diamond Phillips | 3336 |
| 133 | Sam Elliott, actor | 3321 |
| 134 | Johnny Carson | 3306 |
| 135 | Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology | 3226 |
| 136 | John Paul Jones, American Revolutionary War naval hero | 3209 |
| 137 | Shirley MacLaine | 3157 |
| 138 | Linda Hamilton, Actress | 3140 |
| 139 | Jimmy Stewart, actor, Brigadier General (USAFR) | 3135 |
| 140 | Millard Fillmore, American president | 3104 |
| 141 | Charisma Carpenter, actress | 3094 |
| 142 | Faith Hill | 3093 |
| 143 | Upton Sinclair, pulitzer-prize winning author | 3004 |
| 144 | Stoya, porn star | 2978 |
| 145 | Jonathan Davis, lead singer and songwriter for Korn | 2961 |
| 146 | Washington Irving | 2925 |
| 147 | John Muir, naturalist | 2905 |
| 148 | John Kerry | 2884 |
| 149 | Wes Borland, of the band Limp Bizkit | 2807 |
| 150 | Anjelica Huston | 2784 |
| 151 | Kyle MacLachlan, actor, Sex And The City | 2655 |
| 152 | Katharine McPhee, pop and R'n'B | 2644 |
| 153 | John Barrowman (born and semi-raised in Scotland) | 2588 |
| 154 | Andie MacDowell | 2585 |
| 155 | Josh Holloway, Georgia-raised, Highland-bred | 2531 |
| 156 | Tiffany Thornton, actress (Sonny With a Chance) | 2516 |
| 157 | Danica McKellar, actress | 2513 |
| 158 | Roddy Piper, wrestler | 2491 |
| 159 | Richard Dean Anderson, actor | 2453 |
| 160 | Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank | 2337 |
| 161 | Dean Cain, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman). | 2292 |
| 162 | Catherine Bell, actress and model | 2287 |
| 163 | Ginger Rogers, actress; born Virginia Katherine McMath | 2235 |
| 164 | Jack McBrayer | 2168 |
| 165 | Don McLean | 2163 |
| 166 | Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general | 2115 |
| 167 | Michael Biehn, actor | 2103 |
| 168 | Michael Nesmith, Musician/Actor "The Monkees" | 2069 |
| 169 | Jolene Blalock, actress and model | 2066 |
| 170 | Sunny Lane female porn star | 2039 |
| 171 | Glen Campbell, singer | 2005 |
| 172 | Eva LaRue, Actress | 1998 |
| 173 | Sam Houston, president of Texas and afterwards governor | 1984 |
| 174 | George B. McClellan | 1930 |
| 175 | Agnes Moorehead | 1926 |
| 176 | Myrna Loy | 1862 |
| 177 | Pat Robertson | 1860 |
| 178 | Izzy Stradlin, rock musician | 1850 |
| 179 | Emilie Autumn | 1815 |
| 180 | Brian Molko, lead singer of Placebo(mother Scottish) | 1799 |
| 181 | Alexander Calder | 1797 |
| 182 | Roscoe Arbuckle | 1749 |
| 183 | Chris Kirkpatrick , former member of N'Sync | 1708 |
| 184 | Kristy McNichol | 1645 |
| 185 | Benjamin McKenzie, | 1633 |
| 186 | Tim Armstrong, lead singer/guitarist for Rancid | 1611 |
| 187 | Arnold Palmer, golfer | 1603 |
| 188 | Adam McKay | 1598 |
| 189 | Kim Gordon, singer/guitarist for Sonic Youth | 1589 |
| 190 | Steven Wright, comedian, actor and writer (Scottish and Italian descent) | 1578 |
| 191 | Mary McDonnell, Academy Award-nominated actress best known for her role as Stands With a Fist in Dances with Wolves | 1578 |
| 192 | Yvonne De Carlo, of Italian and Scottish descent | 1574 |
| 193 | Pat Buchanan | 1568 |
| 194 | Rosanne Cash singer-songwriter daughter of Johnny Cash | 1567 |
| 195 | Oliver Hardy, comedic actor, best known for Laurel and Hardy | 1557 |
| 196 | Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan fantasy series | 1531 |
| 197 | Tallulah Bankhead | 1513 |
| 198 | David Strathairn, actor, The River Wild | 1500 |
| 199 | Bonnie Raitt, singer/songwriter | 1456 |
| 200 | Deborah Kerr actress | 1422 |
| 201 | Ian MacKaye, Early Hardcore and Emo personality, noted for Minor Threat and Fugazi | 1412 |
| 202 | Brendon Urie, Lead singer of Panic at the Disco | 1341 |
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