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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sylvia Plath, Boston (The Bell Jar) | 43169 |
| 2 | Edgar Allan Poe, Boston ("The Raven") | 42534 |
| 3 | John Cena, professional wrestler | 33097 |
| 4 | John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president | 31953 |
| 5 | Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official | 27943 |
| 6 | Matt Damon, Oscar-winning screenwriter & actor | 24755 |
| 7 | Mark Wahlberg, actor and former musician | 18594 |
| 8 | Todd Collins, football player | 18375 |
| 9 | Antarctica | 17087 |
| 10 | John Adams, revolutionary, later President | 16090 |
| 11 | Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning screenwriter, director & actor | 15174 |
| 12 | Edward Norton, actor, director | 14842 |
| 13 | Malcolm X, political activist | 14781 |
| 14 | Stephen King, author | 14517 |
| 15 | George H. W. Bush, 43rd Vice President of the U.S., 41st President of the U.S. | 13214 |
| 16 | Conan O'Brien comedian and talk show host | 12019 |
| 17 | Godsmack | 11745 |
| 18 | Eliza Dushku, actress | 11380 |
| 19 | Aerosmith | 11052 |
| 20 | Rob Zombie singer, director | 10839 |
| 21 | Steve Carell comedian, actor, The Office US | 10510 |
| 22 | Alexander Graham Bell, Salem (telephone) | 10045 |
| 23 | Paul Revere, revolutionary | 9435 |
| 24 | JoJo, singer | 9173 |
| 25 | Thomas Paine, (Common Sense) | 9007 |
| 26 | Theodor Geisel, Springfield (the Dr. Seuss books) | 8780 |
| 27 | Chris Evans, actor | 8356 |
| 28 | Henry David Thoreau, Concord (Walden) | 7522 |
| 29 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian and Transcendentalist | 7352 |
| 30 | Elizabeth Banks, actress | 7290 |
| 31 | Pixies | 7290 |
| 32 | All That Remains | 7254 |
| 33 | Steven Tyler, Lynn (Aerosmith) | 7251 |
| 34 | W. E. B. Du Bois, Great Barrington (The Souls of Black Folk) | 6974 |
| 35 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Lexington (Internet) MIT Professor | 6845 |
| 36 | Robert Frost, Lawrence (poet) | 6845 |
| 37 | John Krasinski comedian, actor The Office US | 6730 |
| 38 | Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. | 6690 |
| 39 | Uma Thurman, actress | 6671 |
| 40 | Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator (New York) | 6568 |
| 41 | Samuel Adams, revolutionary | 6466 |
| 42 | Bette Davis, actress | 6464 |
| 43 | John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president | 6343 |
| 44 | Jack Kerouac, Lowell (On the Road) | 6235 |
| 45 | Kurt Russell, actor | 6220 |
| 46 | Dane Cook comedian, stand up, and actor | 5993 |
| 47 | Emily Dickinson, Amherst (poet) | 5927 |
| 48 | Casey Affleck, actor | 5893 |
| 49 | Matt LeBlanc, actor | 5836 |
| 50 | Maura Tierney actress | 5755 |
| 51 | George "Boston George" Jung | 5693 |
| 52 | Ellen Pompeo, actress | 5490 |
| 53 | Leonard Nimoy, actor, director | 5363 |
| 54 | Calvin Coolidge, mayor, state representative, senator and governor, 30th U.S. president | 5354 |
| 55 | Killswitch Engage | 5336 |
| 56 | Susan B. Anthony, reformist | 5199 |
| 57 | New Kids on the Block | 5069 |
| 58 | Lisa Edelstein, actress | 4980 |
| 59 | Donnie Wahlberg, actor and former musician | 4934 |
| 60 | Amy Poehler comedian, actress | 4879 |
| 61 | Guster | 4840 |
| 62 | James Taylor musician, singer, composer | 4825 |
| 63 | Louis C.K. comedian, director | 4823 |
| 64 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem (The Scarlet Letter) | 4699 |
| 65 | Jay Leno comedian and talk show host | 4663 |
| 66 | Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer | 4547 |
| 67 | Ron Darling, former starting pitcher, color commentator | 4525 |
| 68 | Eli Roth, director, screenwriter, actor | 4345 |
| 69 | John Hancock | 4290 |
| 70 | Timothy Leary, Springfield (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out) | 4233 |
| 71 | Paget Brewster, actress | 4217 |
| 72 | Passion Pit | 4012 |
| 73 | Jack Lemmon, Oscar-winning actor | 4009 |
| 74 | Boston (band) | 3981 |
| 75 | The Cars | 3949 |
| 76 | Bridget Moynahan, actress | 3942 |
| 77 | Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator | 3886 |
| 78 | Dropkick Murphys | 3857 |
| 79 | Amy Jo Johnson, actress | 3806 |
| 80 | Steven Van Zandt, actor | 3789 |
| 81 | Barbara Walters, television personality | 3771 |
| 82 | Michael Chiklis, actor | 3699 |
| 83 | Clark Gregg, actor, screenwriter | 3524 |
| 84 | Bobby Brown singer | 3334 |
| 85 | Geena Davis, Oscar-winning actress | 3311 |
| 86 | Staind | 3281 |
| 87 | Linda Perry singer and songwriter | 3266 |
| 88 | Anthony Michael Hall, actor | 3208 |
| 89 | James J. Bulger | 3156 |
| 90 | Denis Leary comedian and actor | 3148 |
| 91 | James Spader, Emmy-winning actor | 3107 |
| 92 | Donna Summer singer, song writer | 3052 |
| 93 | Rocky Marciano, boxer | 3042 |
| 94 | Norman Rockwell, artist | 3008 |
| 95 | Mitt Romney, former governor | 2901 |
| 96 | Jennifer Coolidge, actress | 2900 |
| 97 | Gang Starr, hip hop duo | 2885 |
| 98 | John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president | 2884 |
| 99 | Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist | 2853 |
| 100 | Carly Simon musician, singer, composer | 2853 |
| 101 | Ben Foster, actor | 2852 |
| 102 | Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader | 2806 |
| 103 | Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric 1981-2001 | 2777 |
| 104 | Boys Like Girls | 2707 |
| 105 | Mindy Kaling, Cambridge (The Office) | 2625 |
| 106 | Edith Wharton, author | 2565 |
| 107 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet | 2484 |
| 108 | Rob Corddry comedian, The Daily Show | 2483 |
| 109 | Erik Per Sullivan, actor | 2422 |
| 110 | Micky Ward, boxer | 2420 |
| 111 | Marcia Cross, actress | 2413 |
| 112 | Samuel Morse, Charlestown (Morse code) | 2364 |
| 113 | Kenny Florian, UFC Fighter | 2295 |
| 114 | James Remar, actor | 2236 |
| 115 | Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross | 2161 |
| 116 | Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the war | 2160 |
| 117 | New Edition r&b/pop group | 2123 |
| 118 | Louisa May Alcott, Concord (Little Women) | 2093 |
| 119 | Extreme | 2072 |
| 120 | Jeffrey Donovan, actor | 1960 |
| 121 | David Morse, actor | 1947 |
| 122 | Elizabeth Perkins, actress | 1944 |
| 123 | Hal Holbrook, actor | 1942 |
| 124 | Agnes Moorehead, Emmy-winning actress | 1926 |
| 125 | Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actress | 1896 |
| 126 | Neal McDonough, actor | 1894 |
| 127 | Judith Hoag, actress | 1887 |
| 128 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | 1840 |
| 129 | Jonathan Richman songwriter, singer in The Modern Lovers | 1833 |
| 130 | Jenny Slate comedian, actress, Saturday Night Live | 1825 |
| 131 | Horatio Alger, Jr., author | 1792 |
| 132 | Cotton Mather, minister | 1785 |
| 133 | Sam Waterston, actor | 1779 |
| 134 | Walter Brennan, actor | 1776 |
| 135 | Penn Jillette comedian, illusionist, juggler, writer | 1766 |
| 136 | Abbie Hoffman, political activist, member of the Chicago Seven | 1742 |
| 137 | Michael Dukakis, governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president | 1725 |
| 138 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist | 1701 |
| 139 | The J. Geils Band | 1696 |
| 140 | Doug Flutie, NFL, Hall of Fame CFL Football Player, Heisman Trophy winner, founder of Flutie Flakes and The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism | 1686 |
| 141 | Matt Hasselbeck, football player | 1626 |
| 142 | Jane Curtin, actress | 1601 |
| 143 | Anne Sexton, Newton (poet) | 1595 |
| 144 | Bill Guerin, hockey player | 1579 |
| 145 | Steven Wright comedian, actor | 1578 |
| 146 | Shadows Fall | 1572 |
| 147 | William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist | 1566 |
| 148 | Joe Perry, guitarist, singer Aerosmith, The Joe Perry Project | 1541 |
| 149 | Ed McMahon, Lowell (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Star Search) | 1518 |
| 150 | George Santayana, Boston (The Life of Reason) | 1516 |
| 151 | Edward Gorey, author and illustrator | 1477 |
| 152 | The Dresden Dolls | 1464 |
| 153 | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | 1444 |
| 154 | Scott Grimes, actor | 1422 |
| 155 | Rich Cronin, singer (LFO) | 1400 |
| 156 | Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher | 1364 |
| 157 | Horace Mann, educationist and abolitionist | 1359 |
| 158 | Alicia Witt, actress | 1350 |
| 159 | Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist | 1344 |
| 160 | The Breeders | 1319 |
| 161 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Cambridge (poet) | 1310 |
| 162 | Alicia Sacramone, olympic gymnast | 1308 |
| 163 | Dennis Lehane, author | 1297 |
| 164 | Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic figure skater | 1279 |
| 165 | Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots | 1256 |
| 166 | Rachel Dratch comedian | 1216 |
| 167 | Tom Bergeron, an American television personality and game show host | 1205 |
| 168 | Howie Long, hall of fame football player | 1177 |
| 169 | Bernard Cornwell, Chatham (Richard Sharpe (fictional character)) | 1174 |
| 170 | John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official | 1163 |
| 171 | Dispatch | 1159 |
| 172 | Nuno Bettencourt singer and guitarist of Extreme | 1152 |
| 173 | Joe Lauzon, UFC Fighter | 1151 |
| 174 | Converge | 1135 |
| 175 | Maria Menounos, actress | 1133 |
| 176 | Stephen Foster, composer | 1125 |
| 177 | Winslow Homer, painter | 1124 |
| 178 | Anne Bradstreet, poet | 1106 |
| 179 | Ray Bolger, actor | 1065 |
| 180 | Frank Stella, artist | 1046 |
| 181 | Doug Stanhope comedian | 1023 |
| 182 | Bill Burr comedian | 1019 |
| 183 | Jean Louisa Kelly, actress | 989 |
| 184 | Brad Delp, deceased, lead singer of former bands ( Boston, RTZ) | 972 |
| 185 | John King, CNN journalist/anchor, John King, USA | 899 |
| 186 | Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator, led the Senate opposition to the League of Nations | 899 |
| 187 | John Hodgman, Brookline (The Daily Show, "I'm a PC" in Get a Mac) | 884 |
| 188 | Jonathan Tucker, actor | 867 |
| 189 | Duff Goldman, cake artist | 866 |
| 190 | Andrew McMahon, singer/pianist | 858 |
| 191 | Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget | 846 |
| 192 | Unearth | 845 |
| 193 | F. Lee Bailey | 836 |
| 194 | Rex Lee, actor | 836 |
| 195 | Brian J. White, actor, dancer | 812 |
| 196 | Ruth Gordon, actress | 806 |
| 197 | Elizabeth Bishop, Worcester (poet) | 805 |
| 198 | Sumner Redstone, entertainment mogul | 790 |
| 199 | Tom Everett Scott, actor | 786 |
| 200 | Sebastian Junger, author, journalist | 771 |
| 201 | Augusten Burroughs, Amherst (Running with Scissors) | 759 |
| 202 | Adam Green, actor, director, screenwriter | 754 |
| 203 | Taylor Schilling, actress | 753 |
| 204 | Amar Bose, inventor | 752 |
| 205 | Eric Bogosian, actor, playwright | 752 |
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