The Most Famous Creators and Influencers in the World
Top 95 of 95 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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A Serbian Roblox YouTuber named Lake outranks Beckham and MrBeast
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The August 2026 creators list is led by a gaming channel few outside its audience have heard of, with David Beckham, Kylie Jenner and MrBeast trailing by six points or more.
The most famous creator in the world for August 2026 is Lake, a Serbian YouTuber whose channel is built on Roblox gameplay, and his score of 31.5 sits six points above anyone else on the list. David Beckham, the former England footballer and now president and co-owner of Inter Miami, is second at 25.3. Kylie Jenner, the model and influencer, is third at 24.2, and MrBeast, the most-subscribed individual creator on YouTube, fourth at 23.9.
That order is the story. A children's gaming channel outscores a global sports figure, a Kardashian and the most-watched YouTuber on earth, and it is not the only one in the top fifteen. Meteoric, an American streamer known for Blox Fruits tutorials, is twelfth at 15.3, ahead of Jack Black and Jake Paul. IShowSpeed, the American streamer, is fifth at 21.4.
Ninety-five names are measured across 19 countries, and 94 are living, which makes this effectively an all-living sector. The United States supplies 45 names, the United Kingdom ten and Canada seven. The British share shows at the top: both Beckhams are in the top six, Victoria at 20.1, and Andrew Tate, the British-American personality and former kickboxer, is eighth at 17.9.
The sector tag gathers people whose fame now runs through creator channels rather than the trades they came from. Oprah Winfrey is seventh at 19.5. Michael J. Fox, the Canadian-born actor, is ninth. Shaquille O'Neal and Charlie Puth tie at 15.4 in tenth and eleventh, and Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, is fifteenth at 14.6. The ranking measures worldwide fame rather than subscriber counts. On that scale the creator economy's most famous person is someone the mainstream press has barely covered, which is precisely the point of the sector.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lake  internet personalityAlive | 31.5 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  David Beckham  internet personalityAlive | 25.3 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Kylie Jenner  celebrityAlive | 24.2 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  MrBeast celebrityAlive | 23.9 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  IShowSpeed celebrityAlive | 21.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Victoria Beckham internet personalityAlive | 20.1 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Oprah Winfrey internet personalityAlive | 19.5 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Andrew Tate internet personalityAlive | 17.9 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Michael J. Fox  internet personalityAlive | 16.3 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Shaquille O'Neal internet personalityAlive | 15.4 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Charlie Puth internet personalityAlive | 15.4 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Meteoric internet personalityAlive | 15.3 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Jack Black internet personalityAlive | 14.8 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  Jake Paul celebrityAlive | 14.7 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Travis Kelce celebrityAlive | 14.6 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Toni Kroos  internet personalityAlive | 14.5 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  PewDiePie  internet personalityAlive | 14.5 | iFANN → |
| 18 |  Troye Sivan  internet personalityAlive | 14.5 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Joe Rogan  internet personalityAlive | 14.3 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Macaulay Culkin internet personalityAlive | 14.2 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex celebrityAlive | 14.2 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Greta Thunberg public figureAlive | 14.0 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Tom Hiddleston celebrityAlive | 13.9 | iFANN → |
| 24 |  Jack Ma  celebrityAlive | 13.9 | iFANN → |
| 25 |  Linus Torvalds  internet personalityAlive | 13.5 | iFANN → |
| 26 |  Jordan Peterson internet personalityAlive | 13.4 | iFANN → |
| 27 |  Lana Rhoades internet personalityAlive | 13.4 | iFANN → |
| 28 |  Jason Bateman internet personalityAlive | 13.3 | iFANN → |
| 29 |  Logan Paul internet personalityAlive | 13.1 | iFANN → |
| 30 |  George R. R. Martin internet personalityAlive | 13.1 | iFANN → |
| 31 |  Penelope Disick celebrityAlive | 12.5 | iFANN → |
| 32 |  Anna Faris internet personalityAlive | 12.1 | iFANN → |
| 33 |  Gordon Ramsay internet personalityAlive | 12.0 | iFANN → |
| 34 |  Candace Owens public figureAlive | 12.0 | iFANN → |
| 35 |  Alex Warren internet personalityAlive | 11.7 | iFANN → |
| 36 |  Jane Goodall public figure | 11.7 | iFANN → |
| 37 |  Miranda Kerr  celebrityAlive | 11.7 | iFANN → |
| 38 |  William Shatner internet personalityAlive | 11.6 | iFANN → |
| 39 |  KSI internet personalityAlive | 11.4 | iFANN → |
| 40 |  Draymond Green internet personalityAlive | 11.3 | iFANN → |
| 41 |  Kane Parsons internet personalityAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 42 |  Taylor Lautner internet personalityAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 43 |  John Cusack internet personalityAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 44 |  Hasan Piker public figureAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 45 |  Mark Rober internet personalityAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 46 |  Peter Crouch internet personalityAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 47 |  Tom Kaulitz internet personalityAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 48 |  Eduardo Saverin  public figureAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 49 |  Jimmy Wales celebrityAlive | 10.9 | iFANN → |
| 50 |  Erika Kirk internet personalityAlive | 10.9 | iFANN → |
| 51 |  Trevor Noah celebrityAlive | 10.8 | iFANN → |
| 52 |  Grimes internet personalityAlive | 10.6 | iFANN → |
| 53 |  Arthur Antunes Coimbra internet personalityAlive | 10.5 | iFANN → |
| 54 |  Markiplier internet personalityAlive | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 55 |  Jay Leno internet personalityAlive | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 56 |  Kai Cenat celebrityAlive | 10.3 | iFANN → |
| 57 |  Jacksepticeye  internet personalityAlive | 10.2 | iFANN → |
| 58 |  Ashley Tisdale internet personalityAlive | 10.2 | iFANN → |
| 59 |  Nick Fuentes public figureAlive | 10.1 | iFANN → |
| 60 |  Addison Rae internet personalityAlive | 10.1 | iFANN → |
| 61 |  Stone Cold Steve Austin internet personalityAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 62 |  Seth MacFarlane celebrityAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 63 |  Adam Scott internet personalityAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 64 |  Kevin Durant internet personalityAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 65 |  Debbie Rowe celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 66 |  Graham Norton celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 67 |  Perez Hilton internet personalityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 68 |  Ellen Pompeo internet personalityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 69 |  Varg Vikernes  internet personalityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 70 |  Antonela Roccuzzo  internet personalityAlive | 9.8 | iFANN → |
| 71 |  Joji internet personalityAlive | 9.8 | iFANN → |
| 72 |  Nick Vujicic celebrityAlive | 9.7 | iFANN → |
| 73 |  Kate Cassidy internet personalityAlive | 9.7 | iFANN → |
| 74 |  Lee Dong-wook  internet personalityAlive | 9.7 | iFANN → |
| 75 |  Sophie Rain internet personalityAlive | 9.6 | iFANN → |
| 76 |  Suki Waterhouse internet personalityAlive | 9.6 | iFANN → |
| 77 |  Sultan Kösen  celebrityAlive | 9.5 | iFANN → |
| 78 |  Edge internet personalityAlive | 9.5 | iFANN → |
| 79 |  bbno$ internet personalityAlive | 9.4 | iFANN → |
| 80 |  Larry Sanger internet personalityAlive | 9.4 | iFANN → |
| 81 |  Maria Shriver public figureAlive | 9.3 | iFANN → |
| 82 |  Alessia Cara internet personalityAlive | 9.3 | iFANN → |
| 83 |  Belle Delphine internet personalityAlive | 9.2 | iFANN → |
| 84 |  Markus Persson celebrityAlive | 9.2 | iFANN → |
| 85 |  Charli D'Amelio internet personalityAlive | 9.2 | iFANN → |
| 86 |  Karlie Kloss internet personalityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 87 |  Michio Kaku celebrityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 88 |  Faker celebrityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 89 |  Sergio Agüero internet personalityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 90 |  Amber Rose internet personalityAlive | 8.9 | iFANN → |
| 91 |  Cesar Millan  celebrityAlive | 8.9 | iFANN → |
| 92 |  Sonam Wangchuk  public figureAlive | 8.9 | iFANN → |
| 93 |  Megyn Kelly public figureAlive | 8.8 | iFANN → |
| 94 |  Brett Goldstein internet personalityAlive | 8.8 | iFANN → |
| 95 |  Blippi internet personalityAlive | 8.8 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous creators and influencers in the world as of August 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 95 of 95 names the rankings measured in this sector, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 94 of the 95 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Lake is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Lake come David Beckham and Kylie Jenner.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Creators & Influencers
Creators & Influencers is one of the sectors the journal ranks every month, alongside every country, origin and region list in this issue. Sector lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared across sectors and against the world. YouTubers, streamers, TikTokers and podcasters.
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iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.62. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Lake, No. 1 on The Most Famous Creators and Influencers in the World", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org