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Rank
Position in the Top 81, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.
Audience size
Estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.
Country share
Share of the global audience that is active in United Kingdom. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.
Avg age
Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.
Female share
Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.
Ranking
| Rank | Audience | Audience size | Country share | Avg age | Female share | Subtype |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | JJohn Milton | 64k | 9.0% | 42.9 | 56.5% | Poet |
| 27 | IIris Murdoch | 62k | 29.2% | 46.5 | 52.7% | Poet |
| 28 | SSamuel Taylor Coleridge | 58k | 28.2% | 37.3 | 86.8% | Poet |
| 29 | AAllen Ginsberg | 56k | 7.8% | 44.4 | 52.8% | Poet |
| 30 | RRalph Waldo Emerson | 55k | 4.7% | 42.5 | 47.9% | Poet |
| 31 | LLucan | 54k | 4.8% | 51.6 | 95.0% | Poet |
| 32 | CCyrano de Bergerac | 53k | 5.2% | 27.2 | 64.8% | Poet |
| 33 | HHusayn ibn Ali | 53k | 8.8% | 40.8 | 35.6% | Poet |
| 34 | HHamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum | 51k | 6.0% | 38.5 | 38.6% | Poet |
| 35 | SShel Silverstein | 48k | 3.2% | 36.8 | 80.6% | Poet |
| 36 | Ddean koontz | 42k | 6.7% | 37.8 | 56.3% | Poet |
| 37 | NNikolai Gogol | 42k | 3.6% | 38.1 | 69.9% | Poet |
| 38 | HHenry David Thoreau | 41k | 3.2% | 44.0 | 67.4% | Poet |
| 39 | WWole Soyinka | 39k | 12.7% | 45.3 | 49.8% | Poet |
| 40 | JJohn Henry Newman | 38k | 14.5% | 37.0 | 79.3% | Poet |
| 41 | MMahmoud Darwish | 36k | 3.9% | 42.2 | 45.8% | Poet |
| 42 | AAmanda Gorman | 32k | 4.2% | 39.7 | 61.3% | Poet |
| 43 | JJohn Updike | 28k | 12.6% | 45.8 | 54.1% | Poet |
| 44 | AAugustine of Hippo | 27k | 1.1% | 40.4 | 58.8% | Poet |
| 45 | MMuhammad al-Bukhari | 26k | 6.3% | 39.7 | 16.0% | Poet |
| 46 | AAudre Lorde | 25k | 4.5% | 23.7 | 75.0% | Poet |
| 47 | EE. E. Cummings | 23k | 11.1% | 52.3 | 75.8% | Poet |
| 48 | MMichel Houellebecq | 20k | 2.5% | 39.8 | 60.4% | Poet |
| 49 | AAudrey Niffenegger | 19k | 20.6% | 50.8 | 86.8% | Poet |
| 50 | AAl-Ghazali | 16k | 1.8% | 31.6 | 32.8% | Poet |
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Frequently asked questions
How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United Kingdom and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest poet in United Kingdom?
Sylvia Plath currently leads with an estimated audience of 438k people in United Kingdom.