The Most Famous Wizarding World Stars in the World (Alive), August 2026Alive
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Hagrid's absence, and a Wizarding World list caught between two Dracos
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
Robbie Coltrane is the one name lost from the August 2026 Harry Potter top fifteen, and the Alive reading shows an old cast holding on while HBO's new one arrives.
Robbie Coltrane played Hagrid in every Harry Potter film, and he is the one name missing from the top of the Wizarding World list in the Alive reading for August 2026. His departure lifts Amrita Acharia, the British actress with Nepalese and Ukrainian roots who played Irri in Game of Thrones, into fifteenth at 3.5. Seventeen of the eighteen names measured are living.
The living table is the original film cast at nearly full strength. J. K. Rowling leads at 21.7. Daniel Radcliffe is second at 17 and Tom Felton, the Draco Malfoy of the films, fourth at 11.8. Jason Isaacs, Warwick Davis, Evanna Lynch, Natalia Tena, Miriam Margolyes, Devon Murray and David Bradley all remain, seven supporting players from a series that finished in 2011 still drawing measurable worldwide attention fifteen years on.
And then there is the succession. Lox Pratt, the English actor known for the BBC's 2026 Lord of the Flies and for being cast as Draco Malfoy in HBO's television adaptation, is thirteenth at 4.1. He is the only member of the new cast in the top fifteen, and he sits nine places and 7.7 points below the man whose role he inherits. That gap is the number to watch as the series arrives.
The adjacent figures the sector gathers are living too. Ian McKellen, third at 14, and Anna Paquin, sixth at 10.4, both outscore every Potter supporting actor. Jamie Campbell Bower is fifth at 10.4. The United Kingdom supplies ten of the seventeen living names and Ireland two, with Lynch and Murray, and the whole table runs from 21.7 to 3.5 with no dead name left to hold a place.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  J. K. Rowling  public figure | 21.7 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Daniel Radcliffe celebrity | 17.0 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Ian McKellen celebrity | 14.0 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Tom Felton celebrity | 11.8 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Jamie Campbell Bower celebrity | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Anna Paquin  celebrity | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Jason Isaacs celebrity | 9.4 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Warwick Davis celebrity | 8.7 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Evanna Lynch  celebrity | 7.6 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Natalia Tena  celebrity | 7.6 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Miriam Margolyes  celebrity | 7.5 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Devon Murray celebrity | 4.2 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Lox Pratt celebrity | 4.1 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  David Bradley celebrity | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Amrita Acharia  celebrity | 3.5 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Chris Rankin  celebrity | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Pam Ferris  celebrity | 2.9 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous wizarding world stars in the world as of August 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 17 of 17 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.
J. K. Rowling is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind J. K. Rowling come Daniel Radcliffe and Ian McKellen.
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 Harry Potter / Wizarding World
Harry Potter / Wizarding World 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. Hogwarts, the wider Wizarding World and the Fantastic Beasts spin-offs.
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"J. K. Rowling, No. 1 on The Most Famous Wizarding World Stars in the World (Alive), August 2026", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org