The 100 Most Searched People on Google in 2023

Last updated: May, 2023  –  Every week, we create a list of the most searched people on Google by filtering through 25+ billion keywords. Below we share the full list plus the most googled person in the world for the past 3 years.

Highlights

  • The most searched person on Google today: Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift drew headlines for skipping the 2023 Met Gala following news of her breakup from Joe Alwyn).
  • The most searched person on Google in 2022: Will Smith (Will Smith holds the record for most Googled Person of 2022 after he slapped a fellow actor on stage at the Oscars in Mar 2022).
  • The most searched person on Google in 2021: Trump
  • The most searched person on Google in 2020: Kobe Bryant (Bryant died unexpectedly in Jan 2020)
  • The most searched person on Google in 2019: Trump
  • The most searched person on Google of all time: Trump (his election in Nov 2016 hit an all time high of 153M searches that month)

The Full List – The Most Searched People in 2023

Rank Person Search Volume (past 30 days)
1 Taylor Swift 6807000
2 Messi 6543000
3 Ronaldo 5000000
4 Drake 3599000
5 Elon Musk 2542000
6 Donald Trump 2234000
7 Mr Beast 2226000
8 Ariana Grande 2207000
9 Neymar 2182000
10 Shakira 2122000
11 Eminem 2118000
12 Peso Pluma 1477000
13 Selena Gomez 1474000
14 Celine Dion 1454000
15 Andrew Tate 1448000
16 Putin 1396000
17 Miley Cyrus 1382000
18 XXXTentacion 1367000
19 Lebron James 1362000
20 Justin Bieber 1352000
21 Obama 1202000
22 Michael Jordan 1200000
23 Bad Bunny 1170000
24 Rihanna 1168000
25 Pedro Pascal 1159000
26 Keanu Reeves 1159000
27 Harry Styles 1153000
28 Joe Biden 1110000
29 Kylie Jenner 1095000
30 Ryan Reynolds 1056000
31 Adam Sandler 1019000
32 Lady Gaga 987000
33 Ed Sheeran 972000
34 Jenna Ortega 965000
35 Ice Spice 954000
36 Beyonce 949000
37 Tom Cruise 941000
38 Kim Kardashian 876000
39 Jennifer Lopez 784000
40 John Cena 761000
41 Nicolas Cage 753000
42 Zendaya 748000
43 Nicki Minaj 737000
44 Mike Tyson 733000
45 Brooke Shields 700000
46 Will Smith 678000
47 Chris Brown 620000
48 Katy Perry 620000
49 Kendall Jenner 619000
50 Leonardo Dicaprio 612000

Rank Person Search Volume (past 30 days)
51 Snoop Dogg 589000
52 Bill Gates 585000
53 Emma Watson 584000
54 Arnold Schwarzenegger 576000
55 Bruce Willis 569000
56 Tom Hanks 565000
57 Lizzo 545000
58 Zayn Malik 543000
59 Tom Brady 542000
60 Queen Elizabeth 513000
61 Elton John 509000
62 Sylvester Stallone 505000
63 Kevin Durant 503000
64 Ben Affleck 490000
65 Kevin Hart 487000
66 Michael B Jordan 460000
67 Hasbulla 458000
68 Shaq 457000
69 Cardi B 436000
70 Dwayne Johnson 433000
71 Daniel Radcliffe 428000
72 Clint Eastwood 426000
73 Lil Wayne 423000
74 Hailey Bieber 420000
75 Usher 417000
76 Steph Curry 416000
77 Rey Mysterio 393000
78 Gordon Ramsay 384000
79 Dolly Parton 379000
80 Harrison Ford 376000
81 Vin Diesel 369000
82 Reese Witherspoon 365000
83 Nick Jonas 361000
84 Drew Barrymore 354000
85 Youngboy 353000
86 Yeat 346000
87 Denzel Washington 343000
88 George Clooney 336000
89 Steve Harvey 323000
90 Lionel Richie 313000
91 Heidi Klum 313000
92 Zac Efron 311000
93 Florence Pugh 310000
94 Halle Berry 310000
95 Olivia Rodrigo 309000
96 Nicole Kidman 308000
97 Zach Bryan 307000
98 Wednesday Addams 306000
99 Walter White 287000
100 Woody Harrelson 286000

Rank Person Search Volume (past 30 days)
101 Warren Buffett 284000
102 Undertaker 280000
103 Gwyneth Paltrow 272000
104 John Travolta 271000
105 Gwen Stefani 271000
106 Val Kilmer 270000
107 Vince Mcmahon 263000
108 Xavi 263000
109 Chris Rock 255000
110 Quentin Tarantino 253000
111 Willie Nelson 252000
112 Paul Mccartney 249000
113 Bella Ramsey 242000
114 Niall Horan 240000
115 Ryan Seacrest 236000
116 Eddie Murphy 234000
117 Charles Barkley 226000
118 Olivia Wilde 219000
119 Blake Shelton 218000
120 Ashton Kutcher 215000
121 Young Thug 210000
122 Hulk Hogan 208000
123 Usain Bolt 204000
124 Nick Cannon 196000
125 Idris Elba 194000
126 Eva Longoria 194000
127 Floyd Mayweather 193000
128 Ozzy Osbourne 189000
129 Patrick Mahomes 181000
130 Vladimir Putin 173000
131 Ishowspeed 173000
132 Pamela Anderson 160000
133 Orlando Bloom 152000
134 Danny Devito 150000
135 Oprah Winfrey 148000
136 Zoe Saldana 146000
137 Tom Selleck 136000
138 Xi Jinping 134000
139 Vivek Ramaswamy 133000
140 xQc 133000
141 Quavo 124000
142 Alex Murdaugh 123000
143 Viola Davis 122000
144 Kai Cenat 120000
145 William Shatner 113000
146 Quinta Brunson 107000
147 Queen Latifah 107000
148 George Soros 106000
149 Quackity 105000
150 Chase Stokes 103000
151 Whoopi Goldberg 101000
152 Vanna White 62000
153 Flynn Rider 62000
154 Kareem Abdul Jabbar 56000
155 Valerie Bertinelli 54000
156 Pat Sajak 45000
157 Yung Gravy 44000
158 Uncle Roger 44000
159 Wayne Newton 24000
160 Flavor Flav 21000

Most Searched Person by Timeframe

  • The most searched person on Google in May 2023: Taylor Swift (American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift came on the spotlight after skipping the 2023 Met Gala following recent news of her breakup from Joe Alwyn. Her song High Infidelity became trending after singing it live at the 'Eras' tour in Apr 29)
  • The most searched person on Google in April 2023: Trump (Former President Donald Trump became the first US president charged with criminal activity in a 34-count felony indictment)
  • The most searched person on Google in March 2023: Putin (Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus)
  • The most searched person on Google in February 2023: Tom Brady (Legendary quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement in Feb 2023 after 23 years in the NFL)
  • The most searched person on Google in January 2023: Pelé (Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, passed away in Jan 2023 at the age of 82 due to cancer)
  • The most searched person on Google in December 2022: Lionel Messi (Messi won the 2022 FIFA World Cup after Argentina beat France)
  • The most searched person on Google in November 2022: Kanye West (The famous rapper drew headlines for anti-semitic behavior and announced 2024 presidential bid in Nov 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in October 2022: Jeffrey Dahmer (Dahmer's story topped Netflix's list of most watched series in Oct 2022, becoming the second most-viewed Netflix series of all time)
  • The most searched person on Google in September 2022: Queen Elizabeth (The Queen died in Sep 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in August 2022: Anne Heche (A famous actress, Heche died in Aug 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in July 2022: Ivana Trump (Trump's ex-wife died in Jul 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in June 2022: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard (The famous actors' defamation lawsuit played out in court in May and June of 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in May 2022: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard
  • The most searched person on Google in April 2022: Will Smith (Smith slapped a fellow actor on stage at the Oscars in Mar 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in March 2022: Putin (Putin invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022)
  • The most searched person on Google in February 2022: Putin

Most Searched Person by Category

  • The most searched man: Donald Trump
  • The most searched woman: Queen Elizabeth
  • The most searched singer: Justin Bieber
  • The most searched actor: Will Smith
  • The most searched artist: Justin Bieber
  • The most searched K-pop idol: BTS
  • The most searched personality: Kim Kardashian
  • The most searched athlete: Kobe Bryant
  • The most searched football player: Tom Brady
  • The most searched tennis player: Serena Williams
  • The most searched ballerina: Misty Copeland
  • The most searched cricketer: Virat Kohli
  • The most searched president: Donald Trump
  • The most searched celebrity: Donald Trump
  • The most searched pulitzer winner: Robert Frost
  • The most searched Asian celebrity: Jackie Chan
  • The most searched politician: Donald Trump
  • The most searched presidential candidate: Donald Trump

Fascinating Statistics

1. A person's searches are highest when they die:

2. Most of the top searched people in the world are entertainers

  • Roughly 1/3rd are musicians
  • Roughly 1/4th are actors and another 1/4th are politicians
  • The only entrepreneur to make it on the list is Elon Musk
  • 5% are not real people (anime characters, etc.)

How we collected this data

To make the most comprehensive list of the the most searched people on Google, we first segment our database of 25B+ keywords to isolate all the individuals. We then used a set of heuristics to eliminate those that weren't talked about very much over the past month. This leaves us with a list of about 10-20,000 people. From there, we run those through our search volume tool, which is trusted by top institutions from the New York Times to IKEA then we simply sort by the people with the most searches.

Note that when we calculate the most searched person of 2023, for example, we are calculating the person whose searches reached the highest peak during the timeframe any given month. Looking at it on a yearly basis though would have put Trump at the top of the list for each year, from 2016 through even today.

To access a CSV of the top 1,000 searched people, updated every week, please contact us here.

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