The Most Famous Streamers in the World
Top 48 of 48 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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IShowSpeed doubles the field in a streaming list full of unexpected company
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The August 2026 live-streaming table is led by a 21.4 that nobody else comes close to, with a Facebook co-founder and a late Turkish cleric among the names behind.
IShowSpeed is the most famous live streamer in the world for August 2026, with a fame score of 21.4 that is nearly double the next name. Darren Watkins Jr. built that attention on high-energy gaming streams and a travelling road show that has taken him across several continents, and no other creator on the list has anything like the same reach.
Hasan Piker, the left-wing political streamer known as HasanAbi, is second at 11.1. Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian-American co-founder of Facebook, is third at 11 and the first sign that the sector gathers adjacent figures wherever the world's attention groups them. Kai Cenat, the American streamer and YouTuber, is fourth at 10.3, and Markus Persson, the Swedish programmer who created Minecraft, fifth at 9.2. Faker, the South Korean League of Legends player, is sixth at 9.
Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish preacher who led a transnational movement and died in 2024, is seventh at 7.8 and the only dead name among the forty-eight measured. Gypsy Crusader, the far-right streamer, and Asmongold, who came up through World of Warcraft, follow at 6.8 and 6.2. Quinton Rampage Jackson, the former mixed martial artist now streaming, is tenth.
Mata Amritanandamayi, the Indian spiritual leader, Cenk Uygur, Gavin McInnes, Adin Ross and the Ukrainian vlogger Anatoly Shariy complete a top fifteen in which political commentary sits alongside gaming. Forty-seven of the forty-eight are living, spread across eighteen countries, with the United States on nineteen and Brazil on three. Live streaming is the youngest sector in this issue, and its fame is still lopsided: one creator, then everyone else.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  IShowSpeed  celebrityAlive | 21.4 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Hasan Piker public figureAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Eduardo Saverin  public figureAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Kai Cenat celebrityAlive | 10.3 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Markus Persson  celebrityAlive | 9.2 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Faker  celebrityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Fethullah Gülen  public figure | 7.8 | iFANN → |
| 8 | Gypsy Crusader public figureAlive | 6.8 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Asmongold internet personalityAlive | 6.2 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Quinton Jackson celebrityAlive | 5.9 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Mata Amritanandamayi  celebrityAlive | 5.8 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Cenk Uygur politicianAlive | 5.3 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Gavin McInnes  public figureAlive | 5.0 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  Adin Ross internet personalityAlive | 4.5 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Anatoly Shariy  politicianAlive | 4.3 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Mansoor  celebrityAlive | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  tutorials celebrityAlive | 3.7 | iFANN → |
| 18 |  Sneako internet personalityAlive | 3.3 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Amos Yee  public figureAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Peller celebrityAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh  celebrityAlive | 2.2 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Mitchjones internet personalityAlive | 2.0 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  MeganPlays celebrityAlive | 1.8 | iFANN → |
| 24 |  Clix celebrityAlive | 1.8 | iFANN → |
| 25 |  Alodia Gosiengfiao  celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 26 |  Sian Welby  celebrityAlive | 1.6 | iFANN → |
| 27 |  Kyle Giersdorf celebrityAlive | 1.5 | iFANN → |
| 28 |  Pat Kenny  celebrityAlive | 1.5 | iFANN → |
| 29 |  Emmett Shear celebrityAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 30 |  Adam Khoo celebrityAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 31 |  Pinkchyu celebrityAlive | 1.2 | iFANN → |
| 32 |  Mauro Beting celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 33 |  Punch-kun  celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 34 |  Arthur do Val politicianAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 35 | Sydney Talker  celebrityAlive | 0.8 | iFANN → |
| 36 |  Nick Polom internet personalityAlive | 0.7 | iFANN → |
| 37 |  Robin Steiner  celebrityAlive | 0.6 | iFANN → |
| 38 |  PlaqueBoyMax  celebrityAlive | 0.6 | iFANN → |
| 39 |  Marcus Hutchins celebrityAlive | 0.6 | iFANN → |
| 40 | Kaceytron celebrityAlive | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 41 |  Ray D'Arcy celebrityAlive | 0.5 | iFANN → |
| 42 | Ertan Süzgün celebrityAlive | 0.4 | iFANN → |
| 43 | MikeFromPA public figureAlive | 0.4 | iFANN → |
| 44 |  DeenTheGreat internet personalityAlive | 0.4 | iFANN → |
| 45 |  Anderson Neiff celebrityAlive | 0.4 | iFANN → |
| 46 |  Frank Ski celebrityAlive | 0.4 | iFANN → |
| 47 | Pitbully internet personalityAlive | 0.3 | iFANN → |
| 48 | Ellie Collins celebrityAlive | 0.2 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous streamers in the world as of August 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 48 of 48 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. 47 of the 48 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
IShowSpeed is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind IShowSpeed come Hasan Piker and Eduardo Saverin.
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 Streaming / Twitch
Streaming / Twitch 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. Twitch streamers, Kick personalities and the live-streaming creator economy.
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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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"IShowSpeed, No. 1 on The Most Famous Streamers in the World", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org