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Most-read people on Wikipedia, October 2026
Quick answer: Christa Pike was the most-read person on English Wikipedia in October 2026, with 10.3 million views.
Everyone in October's top 60 who is a person — ranked by pageviews. People are identified by Wikidata, not by editorial judgement: an article counts when its Wikidata item has instance-of human (Q5).
At a glance
- 24 people in October's top 60.
- #1: Christa Pike — 10,328,998 views.
- Patrick Stewart is #2 with 4,793,769 views; his pageviews peaked on 29 October (2,356,552 in one day), and his Wikipedia categories list him under 2026 deaths.
- The list mixes actors, politicians, criminals and historical figures — whoever the month's news put in front of readers.
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Counts are English Wikipedia pageviews, all access types, from the Wikimedia Pageviews API. Data lags by about a day.
All 24, ranked
| # | Person | Views in October | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christa Pike | 10,328,998 | 4 |
| 2 | Patrick Stewart | 4,793,769 | 5 |
| 3 | RJ Mitte | 4,741,371 | 6 |
| 4 | Katie Zacharia | 4,008,472 | 10 |
| 5 | Elizabeth Holmes | 3,545,747 | 11 |
| 6 | Nidal Hasan | 2,633,720 | 13 |
| 7 | Ansel Adams | 2,482,803 | 18 |
| 8 | Lizzie Borden | 2,423,771 | 20 |
| 9 | Nana Patekar | 2,285,714 | 22 |
| 10 | Ted Kaczynski | 1,957,004 | 27 |
| 11 | Abdul El-Sayed | 1,638,341 | 35 |
| 12 | Mike Ditka | 1,465,709 | 41 |
| 13 | Kimberly Guilfoyle | 1,410,449 | 42 |
| 14 | Jeff Bezos | 1,403,048 | 43 |
| 15 | Nathan Fielder | 1,307,685 | 46 |
| 16 | Bella Ramsey | 1,259,689 | 50 |
| 17 | Dakota Johnson | 1,211,129 | 55 |
| 18 | Sebastian Croft | 1,183,126 | 57 |
| 19 | Aileen Wuornos | 1,177,936 | 58 |
| 20 | Florence Pugh | 1,174,261 | 59 |
| 21 | Jerry Hall | 1,098,572 | 63 |
| 22 | Ilhan Omar | 1,075,246 | 64 |
| 23 | Donald Trump | 1,074,692 | 65 |
| 24 | Gypsy-Rose Blanchard | 1,066,799 | 66 |
Questions, answered honestly
How is ‘people’ decided?
By Wikidata: an article counts as a person when its Wikidata item has instance-of human (Q5). No editorial judgement — the classification is exact and reproducible.
Why is Christa Pike #1?
The data shows when, not why: 4.31 million of her 10.33 million October views arrived on 1 October alone. Her article covers a 1995 murder case.
Is Patrick Stewart's spike the day he died?
His pageviews peaked on 29 October (2.36 million in one day), and his Wikipedia categories list him under 2026 deaths.
Method: English Wikipedia pageviews, all access, October 2026, from the Wikimedia Pageviews API (monthly top-1000 list; per-article daily counts for the spikes page; September 2026 top-1000 for the new-entries comparison). Retrieved 5 November 2026. People and Films & TV pages classify articles by Wikidata ‘instance of’. Numbers are pageviews, not unique readers.
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