The Most Famous Drag Performers in the World (Alive), August 2026Alive
Top 23 of 23 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.62. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
All twenty-three drag names are living, and Asia holds a third of the top
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The August 2026 Alive reading of the drag list matches the standard one, so the reading here is geography: Manila, Dallas, Taipei and the American South.
Nobody is missing from the Alive reading of the drag list. All 23 names measured for August 2026 are living, so the table is unchanged and Michelle Visage, the American broadcaster and long-time franchise judge, leads at 5.4 with Vice Ganda of the Philippines at 4.9 and Billy Porter at 4.6 behind her.
Read for where the living come from, the list splits into two regions. One is Southeast and East Asia. Vice Ganda is Filipino, M1ss Jade So, tenth at 1.4, was born in the Philippines in 1999, and Nong Poy, the Thai actress, model and LGBTQ advocate, ties her. Plastique Tiara, fifth at 2.4, is Vietnamese-American, and Nymphia Wind, sixth, is the Taiwanese-American dressmaker who became the first East Asian winner of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2024.
The other is the American South. Kennedy Davenport and A'keria C. Davenport, eleventh and fourteenth, are both from Dallas. LaLa Ri is from Atlanta. Silky Nutmeg Ganache, fifteenth at 1.1, is from Moss Point, Mississippi, and Sam Star, seventh at 1.8, built her name on Southern charm. Crystal Methyd, eighth, is the one West Coast entry, a graphic designer from San Jose.
Trinity the Tuck, fourth at 2.8, is the most famous living performer who is primarily a drag queen rather than a judge, comedian or actor. The band from seventh to fifteenth spans just 0.7 points, which means small shifts in attention can reorder most of this table by next month. Eight countries are represented, and the United States supplies eleven names.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Michelle Visage  celebrity | 5.4 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Vice Ganda  public figure | 4.9 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Billy Porter celebrity | 4.6 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Trinity the Tuck celebrity | 2.8 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Plastique Tiara  celebrity | 2.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Nymphia Wind  celebrity | 1.9 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Sam Star celebrity | 1.8 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Crystal Methyd celebrity | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  LaLa Ri celebrity | 1.6 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  M1ss Jade So celebrity | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Kennedy Davenport celebrity | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Treechada Petcharat  public figure | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Nicole Paige Brooks celebrity | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  A'keria C. Davenport celebrity | 1.2 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Silky Nutmeg Ganache celebrity | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Jasmine Kennedie celebrity | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Art Simone  celebrity | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 18 | Nikita Iman  celebrity | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Coco Jumbo celebrity | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Joey Jay celebrity | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Vybe celebrity | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Estrella Xtravaganza  celebrity | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Michael Marouli celebrity | 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 Alive reading: living people only. The standard reading ranks everyone, living or dead, on one scale, and is one click away.
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 (Alive), August 2026", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org