Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    The Most Famous Wizarding World Stars in the World

    Top 21 of 21 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 20 of the 21 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous Wizarding World Stars in the World is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    J. K. Rowling
    GBpublic figureAlive
    22.1
    2
    Daniel Radcliffe
    GBcelebrityAlive
    17.8
    3
    Ian McKellen
    GBcelebrityAlive
    14.6
    4
    Tom Felton
    GBcelebrityAlive
    12.5
    5
    Anna Paquin
    CAcelebrityAlive
    10.5
    6
    Jamie Campbell Bower
    GBcelebrityAlive
    10.3
    7
    Jason Isaacs
    GBcelebrityAlive
    9.6
    8
    Warwick Davis
    GBcelebrityAlive
    9.1
    9
    Evanna Lynch
    IEcelebrityAlive
    7.5
    10
    Miriam Margolyes
    AUcelebrityAlive
    7.0
    11
    Natalia Tena
    EScelebrityAlive
    6.9
    126.0
    13
    David Bradley
    GBcelebrityAlive
    4.9
    14
    Devon Murray
    IEcelebrityAlive
    4.6
    15
    Arabella Stanton
    GBcelebrityAlive
    4.6
    16
    Lox Pratt
    GBcelebrityAlive
    4.4
    17
    Shirley Henderson
    GBcelebrityAlive
    3.6
    18
    Chris Rankin
    NZcelebrityAlive
    3.3
    19
    Amrita Acharia
    NPcelebrityAlive
    3.2
    20
    Pam Ferris
    DEcelebrityAlive
    2.9
    21
    Gracie Cochrane
    GBcelebrityAlive
    0.7

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous wizarding world stars in the world as of September 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 21 of 21 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. 20 of the 21 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    J. K. Rowling is No. 1 on this list for September 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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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. 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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    "J. K. Rowling, No. 1 on The Most Famous Wizarding World Stars in the World", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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