Top 50 Poets in India

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 63 poets tracked in India, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Tulsidas lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3,004,524 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 126,966, and the largest, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, reaches around 1,153,777 people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	1,153,777	95.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
2	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	985,960	97.2%	Poet	Literature
3	Tulsidas	864,787	97.7%	Poet	Literature
4	Satguru	320,780	76.5%	Poet	Literature
5	Kazi Nazrul Islam	276,423	79.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
6	John Keats	260,435	35.0%	Poet	Literature
7	Sylvia Plath	257,865	4.8%	Poet	Literature
8	Husayn ibn Ali	205,732	38.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
9	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	200,811	22.9%	Poet	Politics & Society
10	Parveen Shakir	171,862	72.2%	Poet	Literature
11	Faiz Ahmad Faiz	171,683	66.5%	Poet	Literature
12	T. S. Eliot	148,891	6.2%	Poet	Literature
13	John Milton	134,366	14.2%	Poet	Literature
14	Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi	112,995	63.8%	Poet	Politics & Society
15	Emily Brontë	94,090	4.8%	Poet	Literature
16	Abdul-Qadir Gilani	89,696	52.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
17	Mahmoud Darwish	77,983	9.4%	Poet	Literature
18	Lord Byron	75,677	3.6%	Poet	Literature
19	Robert Louis Stevenson	66,451	6.0%	Poet	Literature
20	H. P. Lovecraft	63,677	2.0%	Poet	Literature
21	Muhammad al-Bukhari	60,592	14.4%	Poet	Politics & Society
22	Henry David Thoreau	53,269	4.3%	Poet	Literature
23	Irom Chanu Sharmila	51,853	95.2%	Poet	Literature
24	Muhammad Taqi Usmani	51,021	56.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
25	Rumi	43,963	3.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
26	Wole Soyinka	38,111	12.0%	Poet	Literature
27	Alexander Pushkin	36,518	3.2%	Poet	Literature
28	Aldous Huxley	32,986	2.8%	Poet	Literature
29	Bertolt Brecht	30,615	1.3%	Poet	Literature
30	Charlotte Brontë	27,970	5.0%	Poet	Literature
31	Tennessee Williams	27,723	2.5%	Poet	Literature
32	Nikolai Gogol	25,976	3.2%	Poet	Literature
33	Hafez	21,407	3.0%	Poet	Literature
34	dean koontz	15,422	2.4%	Poet	Literature
35	Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri	14,762	84.6%	Poet	Literature
36	Audre Lorde	13,971	2.5%	Poet	Literature
37	Miguel de Cervantes	12,044	0.7%	Poet	Literature
38	Joyce Carol Oates	9,876	1.4%	Poet	Literature
39	Lucan	8,315	0.8%	Poet	Literature
40	Augustine of Hippo	7,569	0.5%	Poet	Politics & Society
41	Nizami Ganjavi	6,214	12.7%	Poet	Literature
42	Iris Murdoch	5,213	2.7%	Poet	Literature
43	Amanda Gorman	4,856	0.7%	Poet	Literature
44	Friedrich Schiller	3,762	0.5%	Poet	Literature
45	Thích Nhất Hạnh	2,591	1.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
46	Clarissa Pinkola Estés	2,059	0.7%	Poet	Literature
47	Michel Houellebecq	1,628	0.3%	Poet	Literature
48	Ogyen Trinley Dorje	1,550	18.1%	Poet	Literature
49	Haji Bektash Veli	1,337	5.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
50	YAN TV	1,196	0.9%	Poet	Movies & TV