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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Lennon (1988) | 755028 |
| 2 | William Shakespeare (1964 & 1988) | 45781 |
| 3 | King Henry VIII (1982) | 39393 |
| 4 | Queen Elizabeth II (1952) | 29912 |
| 5 | Benjamin Franklin (1976, 2010) | 27943 |
| 6 | Queen Victoria (1840 & 1970) | 27418 |
| 7 | Charles Darwin (1982) </ref> | 21949 |
| 8 | Sir Winston Churchill (1965 & 1974) | 21355 |
| 9 | Freddie Mercury, musician (1999) </ref> | 20105 |
| 10 | Charlie Chaplin (1985 & 1999) | 17185 |
| 11 | Lady Diana Spencer (1981) | 16803 |
| 12 | Charles, Prince of Wales (1969) </ref> | 12563 |
| 13 | Queen Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 11842 |
| 14 | Queen Catherine Howard, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 10246 |
| 15 | Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker (1985) | 9744 |
| 16 | King George VI (1937) | 7764 |
| 17 | Ernest Rutherford, scientist (2010) | 7722 |
| 18 | King George V (1911) | 7415 |
| 19 | Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 7226 |
| 20 | Queen Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 7222 |
| 21 | Florence Nightingale, nurse (1970) | 7199 |
| 22 | Francis Bacon (2009) | 7056 |
| 23 | King Edward VII (1902) | 6959 |
| 24 | Queen Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 6558 |
| 25 | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1972) | 6527 |
| 26 | Vivien Leigh (1985) | 6097 |
| 27 | Sir Francis Drake (1973) | 6056 |
| 28 | Queen Catherine Parr, wife of Henry VIII (1997) | 5817 |
| 29 | King Edward VIII (1936) | 5759 |
| 30 | John Keats, poet (1971) | 5680 |
| 31 | Michael Faraday (1991) | 5415 |
| 32 | Henry Hudson, explorer (1972) | 5255 |
| 33 | Sir Walter Raleigh (1973) | 5250 |
| 34 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2009) | 5131 |
| 35 | Robert the Bruce (1974) | 5033 |
| 36 | Peter Sellers (1985) | 4996 |
| 37 | Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the "Queen Mother", wife of George VI (1937) | 4940 |
| 38 | Charles Babbage, scientist (1991, 2010) | 4846 |
| 39 | Saint George (1951) | 4314 |
| 40 | Thomas Hardy (1990) | 4127 |
| 41 | Samuel Johnson (2009) | 3549 |
| 42 | Mary Wollstonecraft (2009) | 3419 |
| 43 | King Henry V (1964) | 3106 |
| 44 | David Niven (1985) | 3066 |
| 45 | King Harold Godwinson (1966) | 2939 |
| 46 | George Eliot (1980) | 2811 |
| 47 | Edward Jenner, scientist (2010) | 2794 |
| 48 | Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (1995) | 2727 |
| 49 | Robert Burns (1966, 1996, 2009) | 2708 |
| 50 | Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1986) | 2650 |
| 51 | Sir Walter Scott (1971) | 2591 |
| 52 | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1999) </ref> | 2487 |
| 53 | David Livingstone (1973) | 2487 |
| 54 | Robert Boyle, scientist (2010) | 2461 |
| 55 | Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (1986) | 2263 |
| 56 | Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1972) | 2147 |
| 57 | Stan Laurel, comedian (1990) | 1933 |
| 58 | Peter Cook (1998) | 1900 |
| 59 | Edward Elgar (1985) | 1862 |
| 60 | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972) | 1835 |
| 61 | Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist (2010) | 1701 |
| 62 | Emmeline Pankhurst (1968) | 1544 |
| 63 | Gustav Holst, composer (1985) | 1359 |
| 64 | Tommy Cooper (1998) | 1330 |
| 65 | Bobby Moore, footballer (1996 & 1999) | 1327 |
| 66 | Henry Morton Stanley (1973) | 1233 |
| 67 | Sir Martin Frobisher (1972) | 1139 |
| 68 | Sir William Herschel, astronomer (1970) | 1115 |
| 69 | Fred Perry (2009) | 1091 |
| 70 | Joseph Lister (1965, 2010) | 1064 |
| 71 | Elizabeth Gaskell (1980) | 1058 |
| 72 | Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1999) | 1045 |
| 73 | Sir Matt Busby (2009) | 954 |
| 74 | Simon de Montfort (1965) | 817 |
| 75 | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1973) | 798 |
| 76 | Thomas Gray (1971) | 737 |
| 77 | Edward Lear (1988) | 720 |
| 78 | Captain Mark Phillips (1973) | 627 |
| 79 | Sir John Herschel (1970) | 602 |
| 80 | Donald Campbell (2009) | 536 |
| 81 | Dorothy Hodgkin, scientist (2010) | 534 |
| 82 | Dixie Dean (1996) </</ref> | 475 |
| 83 | Les Dawson (1998) | 462 |
| 84 | Duncan Edwards, footballer (1996) | 421 |
| 85 | Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII, great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles (1983) | 419 |
| 86 | Frederick Delius (1985) | 381 |
| 87 | Admiral Jackie Fisher (1982) | 360 |
| 88 | George Stubbs (1967) | 302 |
| 89 | Admiral Andrew Cunningham (1982) | 291 |
| 90 | Billy Wright (1996) | 275 |
| 91 | Danny Blanchflower (1996) | 271 |
| 92 | Sir Thomas Beecham (1980) | 245 |
| 93 | Sir James Clark Ross (1972) | 244 |
| 94 | Joyce Grenfell (1998) | 232 |
| 95 | Charles Sturt (1973) | 217 |
| 96 | Francis Chichester (1967 & 2003) | 207 |
| 97 | Sir Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979) | 166 |
| 98 | Lord Tedder (1986) | 160 |
| 99 | Sir Malcolm Sargent (1980) | 159 |
| 100 | Sir John Barbirolli (1980) | 157 |
| 101 | Sir Henry Raeburn (1973) | 123 |
| 102 | Wenceslaus Hollar (1965) | 114 |
| 103 | Charlotte Brontë (1980) | 85 |
| 104 | George Frederic Handel (1985) | 52 |
| 105 | Alexander Nasmyth (1966) | 51 |
| 106 | Sir Nicholas Shackleton, scientist (2010) | 50 |
| 107 | Rev William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (1988) | 49 |
| 108 | Francis Baily (1970) | 32 |
| 109 | Arthur Whitten Brown (1969) | 32 |
| 110 | Sir Arthur Harris (1986) | 25 |
| 111 | William Salesbury (1988) | 22 |
| 112 | Bishop Richard Davies (1988) | 16 |
| 113 | Archibald Skirving (1966) | 13 |
| 114 | Bishop Richard Parry (1988) | 11 |
| 115 | Emily Brontë (1980) | 10 |
| 116 | The Black Prince (1974) | < 5 |
| 117 | Sir Isaac Newton, scientist (2010) | < 5 |
| 118 | Henry Wood (1980) | < 5 |
| 119 | Mohandas Gandhi (1969) | < 5 |
| 120 | Stanley Gibbons catalogue | < 5 |
| 121 | Violet Keppel (1983) | < 5 |
| 122 | Admiral Robert Blake (1982) | < 5 |
| 123 | William Gilbert Grace (1973) | < 5 |
| 124 | Lord Portal (1986) | < 5 |
| 125 | John Alcock (1969) | < 5 |
| 126 | Lord Dowding (1986) | < 5 |
| 127 | Lord Trenchard (1986) | < 5 |
| 128 | Robert Baden-Powell (1982) | < 5 |
| 129 | Alfred Tennyson (1992) | < 5 |
| 130 | Admiral Horatio Nelson (1982) | < 5 |
| 131 | Owain Glyndŵr (1974) | < 5 |
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