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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanye West, rapper (born in Atlanta raised in Chicago) | 52183 |
| 2 | Usher, singer, producer | 25956 |
| 3 | T.I., rapper | 20211 |
| 4 | Gucci Mane, (From Alabama, moved to Atlanta) | 19155 |
| 5 | Julia Roberts, actress | 17998 |
| 6 | Hulk Hogan | 16207 |
| 7 | Brittany Murphy, actress/singer | 14828 |
| 8 | Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977–1981), Nobel Peace laureate 2002 and Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) | 14681 |
| 9 | Young Jeezy, rapper (From Columbia, South Carolina, moved to Atlanta ) | 13977 |
| 10 | John Mayer, singer-songwriter | 13474 |
| 11 | Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1913–1921), | 13167 |
| 12 | Ludacris, rapper | 12461 |
| 13 | Dakota Fanning, actress | 12150 |
| 14 | R.E.M. | 11159 |
| 15 | Ciara, R&B singer, raised in Atlanta. | 9785 |
| 16 | David Cross, stand-up comedian/actor | 9323 |
| 17 | Ryan Seacrest, actor | 9297 |
| 18 | Keri Hilson, R&B singer | 8089 |
| 19 | Kelly Rowland, R&B singer and actress | 7779 |
| 20 | Bill Goldberg, professional wrestler and NFL player | 7404 |
| 21 | Ray Charles, jazz, blues, soul, and rock-and-roll pianist, songwriter, and singer; born in Georgia, raised in Florida | 7324 |
| 22 | W. E. B. Du Bois, who taught at Atlanta University and lived in the city for 6 years, during which he wrote The Souls of Black Folk(1903), in which he identified, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line". | 6974 |
| 23 | Chris Benoit, professional wrestler | 6895 |
| 24 | Tyler Perry, playwright, actor, director | 6586 |
| 25 | The Great Khali, professional wrestler | 5955 |
| 26 | Lil Jon, rapper, producer | 5951 |
| 27 | Deion Sanders, two-sport athlete (MLB and NFL) | 5822 |
| 28 | Deerhunter, rock | 5495 |
| 29 | Chris Tucker, film actor & comedian | 5462 |
| 30 | Spike Lee, film director | 5391 |
| 31 | Jane Fonda, actress | 5360 |
| 32 | Ted Turner, media mogul | 5329 |
| 33 | Lita, professional wrestler and valet | 5232 |
| 34 | Sugarland, country group | 4845 |
| 35 | The-Dream, R&B singer | 4840 |
| 36 | Kyle Massey, actor, That's So Raven! | 4707 |
| 37 | The B-52s, punk/alternative band | 4440 |
| 38 | Lex Luger, professional wrestler | 4367 |
| 39 | Roscoe Dash | 4355 |
| 40 | Otis Redding | 4252 |
| 41 | Big Boi, rapper | 4108 |
| 42 | Kenan Thompson, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Fat Albert) | 4087 |
| 43 | Little Richard | 4015 |
| 44 | Mastodon, metal/hardcore band | 3777 |
| 45 | The Black Crowes, blues rock band | 3651 |
| 46 | Dwight Howard, current NBA player | 3634 |
| 47 | Elle Fanning, actress | 3437 |
| 48 | Too Short, resides in Atlanta | 3099 |
| 49 | Evander Holyfield, heavyweight champion boxer | 3082 |
| 50 | Alton Brown, Peabody Award-winning creator and host of the Food Network program Good Eats. | 3012 |
| 51 | Chipper Jones, baseball player | 2867 |
| 52 | OJ da Juiceman | 2841 |
| 53 | Alice Walker, 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple | 2774 |
| 54 | Steven Soderbergh, film director | 2768 |
| 55 | Holly Hunter, actress | 2692 |
| 56 | Ty Pennington, actor | 2680 |
| 57 | Cartel, punk/power pop band | 2565 |
| 58 | Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer and the major leagues' home run leader from April 1974 to August 2007 | 2543 |
| 59 | Sevendust, alt metal band | 2482 |
| 60 | Alan Jackson, country singer | 2477 |
| 61 | Jason Aldean, country singer | 2467 |
| 62 | Robert Patrick, actor, best remembered as the "T-1000" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 2371 |
| 63 | Jermaine Dupri, rapper, producer | 2324 |
| 64 | Keith Sweat, singer/songwriter/producer | 2245 |
| 65 | Paula Deen, cooking show host on Food Network | 2228 |
| 66 | Collective Soul, alt rock band | 2208 |
| 67 | Raven, professional wrestler | 2176 |
| 68 | 112, R&B quartet | 2169 |
| 69 | Fit Finlay, professional wrestler | 2077 |
| 70 | Goodie Mob, rap group | 2025 |
| 71 | Xscape, R&B Group | 1982 |
| 72 | William Regal, professional wrestler | 1942 |
| 73 | India.Arie, R&B singer | 1932 |
| 74 | Yung Joc, rapper | 1861 |
| 75 | Erika "Nik" Pace, contestant on America's Next Top Model Cycle 5, currently modeling for Ford Models | 1790 |
| 76 | Billy Currington, country singer | 1787 |
| 77 | Ying Yang Twins, hip hop duo | 1778 |
| 78 | Chris Lowell, actor, Veronica Mars | 1745 |
| 79 | Victoria Principal, actress (Dallas) | 1624 |
| 80 | Gorilla Zoe, rapper | 1613 |
| 81 | Jerry Reed, country singer | 1607 |
| 82 | Jasmine Guy, actress | 1589 |
| 83 | Pastor Troy, rapper | 1575 |
| 84 | Fonzworth Bentley, rapper | 1560 |
| 85 | Oliver Hardy, comedian | 1557 |
| 86 | Leo Frank, Jewish lynching victim | 1547 |
| 87 | David Justice, retired MLB baseball player | 1486 |
| 88 | Devon Werkheiser, actor, (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide) | 1482 |
| 89 | Boyz n da Hood, rap group | 1349 |
| 90 | Polow da Don, music producer | 1335 |
| 91 | Luke Bryan, country singer | 1322 |
| 92 | Christopher Massey, actor, Zoey 101 | 1321 |
| 93 | Bubba Sparxxx, rapper | 1310 |
| 94 | Bobby V, R&B singer | 1264 |
| 95 | Buff Bagwell, professional wrestler | 1254 |
| 96 | Family Force 5, crunk rock band | 1236 |
| 97 | RichGirl, R&B quartet | 1230 |
| 98 | Shawty Lo, rapper/part of D4L | 1223 |
| 99 | Joe Scarborough, former US Congressman and MSNBC personality | 1219 |
| 100 | Indigo Girls, Folk and pop duo | 1200 |
| 101 | DeForest Kelley, actor, Star Trek | 1188 |
| 102 | Deborah Norville, host of Inside Edition, former co-host of The Today Show with Bryant Gumbel prior to Katie Couric | 1180 |
| 103 | Young Dro, rapper | 1152 |
| 104 | DJ Drama DJ | 1149 |
| 105 | Jeff Foxworthy, actor & comedian | 1118 |
| 106 | Manchester Orchestra, indie rock band fronted by Andy Hull | 1096 |
| 107 | John Pemberton, chemist and inventor of Coca-Cola | 1093 |
| 108 | Black Lips, flower punk band | 1058 |
| 109 | Arrested Development, hip hop group | 1055 |
| 110 | Will Wright, computer game designer, best known for creating Simcity and The Sims | 1038 |
| 111 | B5, R&B/hip hop group | 1024 |
| 112 | Trisha Yearwood, country singer | 1024 |
| 113 | Brenda Lee, singer | 1021 |
| 114 | Dominique Wilkins, former NBA player | 1020 |
| 115 | Margaret Mitchell, 1937 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Gone with the Wind | 978 |
| 116 | Abdullah the Butcher, professional wrestler | 973 |
| 117 | Bobby Jones, only player ever to have won golf's Grand Slam | 960 |
| 118 | John Heisman, coach and college trophy namesake | 899 |
| 119 | Travis Tritt, country singer | 873 |
| 120 | Dallas Austin, music executive/producer | 873 |
| 121 | Crime Mob, rap group | 869 |
| 122 | Wayne Williams, convicted murderer and suspected serial killer | 857 |
| 123 | Jamal Lewis, Running Back | 833 |
| 124 | Blaque, R&B group | 818 |
| 125 | Norma Jean, metalcore band | 786 |
| 126 | Zion I, California rappers born in Atlanta | 777 |
| 127 | Dale Murphy, retired MLB baseball player | 753 |
| 128 | Kip Pardue, actor | 735 |
| 129 | Pat Conroy, contemporary Atlanta-born author of The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and The Great Santini. | 671 |
| 130 | Andrew Young, Ambassador to the UN under President Carter, civil rights activist and former mayor of Atlanta | 669 |
| 131 | The Atlanta Rhythm Section, pop/rock band | 658 |
| 132 | Butch Walker | 650 |
| 133 | Phil Niekro, retired MLB baseball player | 634 |
| 134 | Lindsey Vonn, 2006, 2010 Olympic skier. (part time resident of Atlanta, also lives in Germany and Vail, Colorado) | 632 |
| 135 | General Larry Platt, Civil rights leader, famous for his 2010 performance of Pants on the Ground during the auditions of Season 9 of American Idol. | 610 |
| 136 | Neal Boortz, talk radio host, author with Congressman John Linder, The FairTax Book | 552 |
| 137 | Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore and the first aborted Stone Mountain carving | 550 |
| 138 | Evan and Jaron, pop duo | 509 |
| 139 | Shawn Mullins, singer-songwriter | 497 |
| 140 | Sound Tribe Sector 9, jam band | 491 |
| 141 | Dem Franchize Boyz, rap group | 483 |
| 142 | Josh Smith, current NBA player | 474 |
| 143 | Arthur Blank, co-founder of Home Depot and the current owner of the Atlanta Falcons | 462 |
| 144 | Jennifer Paige, singer | 446 |
| 145 | D4L, rap group | 440 |
| 146 | Jennifer Holliday, Broadway actress/singer | 438 |
| 147 | Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State 1961 to 1969 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson | 420 |
| 148 | William Luther Pierce, neo-Fascist | 419 |
| 149 | Walt Frazier, former NBA player | 414 |
| 150 | Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company | 413 |
| 151 | Mr. Collipark, hip hop producer | 405 |
| 152 | Magicicada, experimental | 404 |
| 153 | Sleepy Brown, R&B singer | 399 |
| 154 | Shawty Redd, producer/rapper | 397 |
| 155 | Joel Chandler Harris, author of Uncle Remus | 397 |
| 156 | Johnny Isakson, U.S. Senator from Georgia | 393 |
| 157 | Unk, rapper | 388 |
| 158 | Javaris Crittenton, current NBA player | 382 |
| 159 | Demolition Ax, professional wrestler | 376 |
| 160 | Sam Nunn, United States Senator from Georgia (1972 until 1996), particularly influential in defense | 374 |
| 161 | S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A | 367 |
| 162 | James Dickey, poet and novelist | 359 |
| 163 | Blind Willie McTell, famous for his song, "Statesboro Blues" popularized by The Allman Brothers Band and a major influence to the works of Bob Dylan | 358 |
| 164 | Clark Howard, talk radio host | 343 |
| 165 | Shuler Hensley, Broadway and film actor | 337 |
| 166 | Monica Calhoun, actress | 329 |
| 167 | DJ Toomp, producer | 327 |
| 168 | Killer Mike, rapper | 326 |
| 169 | Bobbie Eakes, actress on Bold and the Beautiful | 263 |
| 170 | Drivin N Cryin, folk/rock band featuring Kevin Kinney | 255 |
| 171 | Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot and primary funding source for the Georgia Aquarium | 252 |
| 172 | Trillville, rap group | 251 |
| 173 | Elijah Kelley, actor | 243 |
| 174 | Hubie Brown, former NBA coach | 239 |
| 175 | Mark Wills, country singer | 237 |
| 176 | Lewis Grizzard, journalist and author | 234 |
| 177 | Shop Boyz, rap group | 233 |
| 178 | Lemuel Grant, early Atlanta railroad man, landowner, engineer and businessman | 224 |
| 179 | RonReaco Lee, actor | 217 |
| 180 | Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist, composer and arranger | 215 |
| 181 | Don Curry, actor | 208 |
| 182 | Isabella Acres, child actress | 206 |
| 183 | Anne Cox Chambers, co-owner of Cox Enterprises | 195 |
| 184 | Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution | 188 |
| 185 | Robert Shaw, conductor | 184 |
| 186 | Jimmy Rave, professional wrestler | 180 |
| 187 | Kilo Ali, pioneer Atlanta rapper | 174 |
| 188 | Alicia Leigh Willis, actress on General Hospital | 171 |
| 189 | Maynard Jackson, former mayor | 161 |
| 190 | Lucius D. Clay, "father" of the Berlin Airlift (1948â49), the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways and the [link] - known as [link] | 156 |
| 191 | Brett Butler, retired MLB baseball player | 152 |
| 192 | Robert W. Woodruff, Coca-Cola executive | 151 |
| 193 | Speech, rapper/singer/producer | 141 |
| 194 | Bert Parks, longtime host of the Miss America Pageant and many television game shows | 133 |
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