The Most Famous Drag Performers in the World
Top 23 of 23 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Visage, Vice Ganda and Porter lead a drag list where the queens start fourth
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The three most famous names in drag for August 2026 are a judge, a Filipino comedian and a Broadway star, with Trinity the Tuck the first working queen.
Michelle Visage holds the most attention in the drag sector for August 2026 with a score of 5.4, and she is not a drag queen. The American television personality, singer and broadcaster has judged the culture's biggest franchise for years, and that seat outranks every performer on the table. Vice Ganda, the Filipino comedian, host and singer whose sharp tongue made him a fixture of Philippine entertainment, is second at 4.9, and Billy Porter, the Pittsburgh-born singer and actor, is third at 4.6.
The sector gathers adjacent figures, and the first working queen appears at fourth. Trinity the Tuck, the American performer, recording artist and costume designer, scores 2.8. Plastique Tiara, the Vietnamese-American dancer and model, is fifth at 2.4, and Nymphia Wind, the Taiwanese-American dressmaker who won season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2024 as the first East Asian champion, is sixth at 1.9.
From there the scores compress into a band between 1.8 and 1.1. Sam Star, known for polished pageantry, Crystal Methyd from San Jose, LaLa Ri from Atlanta and M1ss Jade So from the Philippines run seventh to tenth. Kennedy Davenport of Dallas ties the Thai actress Nong Poy at 1.4. Silky Nutmeg Ganache, who arrived on the eleventh season in 2019, closes the fifteen.
Twenty-three names were measured across eight countries, all of them living. The United States supplies eleven, Australia three, the Philippines two. The scores are small next to other sectors, which is a measure of worldwide fame, not of the culture, and the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and Thailand between them put four Asian names in the top twelve.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Michelle Visage  celebrityAlive | 5.4 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Vice Ganda  public figureAlive | 4.9 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Billy Porter celebrityAlive | 4.6 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Trinity the Tuck celebrityAlive | 2.8 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Plastique Tiara  celebrityAlive | 2.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Nymphia Wind  celebrityAlive | 1.9 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Sam Star celebrityAlive | 1.8 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Crystal Methyd celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  LaLa Ri celebrityAlive | 1.6 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  M1ss Jade So celebrityAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Kennedy Davenport celebrityAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Treechada Petcharat  public figureAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Nicole Paige Brooks celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  A'keria C. Davenport celebrityAlive | 1.2 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Silky Nutmeg Ganache celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Jasmine Kennedie celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Art Simone  celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 18 | Nikita Iman  celebrityAlive | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Coco Jumbo celebrityAlive | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Joey Jay celebrityAlive | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Vybe celebrityAlive | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Estrella Xtravaganza  celebrityAlive | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Michael Marouli celebrityAlive | 0.5 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous drag performers in the world as of August 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 23 of 23 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. 23 of the 23 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Michelle Visage is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Michelle Visage come Vice Ganda and Billy Porter.
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 Drag
Drag 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. Drag queens, Drag Race franchises and the wider drag culture.
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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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"Michelle Visage, No. 1 on The Most Famous Drag Performers in the World", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org