--- license: cc0-1.0 pretty_name: "humans.top — Global ranking of influential people" language: - en - ru - de - fr - it - es - tr - zh - pl - sr - ar - hi - bn - pt - ja task_categories: - text-generation - text-classification size_categories: - n<1K annotations_creators: - expert-generated source_datasets: - original configs: - config_name: default data_files: - split: train path: humans.jsonl tags: - tabular - text - people - ranking - influence - biographies - multilingual - named-entities - entity-linking - wikidata - knowledge-base --- # humans.top — Global ranking of influential people (open dataset) ![Live](https://img.shields.io/badge/Live-mirrors%20the%20ranking-2ea44f) ![Lightweight](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lightweight-CSV%20%2F%20JSONL-1f6feb) ![High-quality](https://img.shields.io/badge/High--quality-15--language%20bios-8957e5) ![Frequently updated](https://img.shields.io/badge/Updated-daily-2ea44f) ![Human-checked](https://img.shields.io/badge/Human--checked-links%20%26%20accounts-d29922) **This dataset ranks real, named living people by global influence** — e.g. #1 Donald Trump, #2 Xi Jinping, #3 Vladimir Putin, alongside figures like Elon Musk, Narendra Modi and Lionel Messi. Every row is a **person**: their live influence **rank**, a concise **biography in 15 languages**, and Wikidata / Wikipedia links. Published from the website **[humans.top](https://humans.top)** (`.top` is the domain name). **Available on** (identical CC0 mirrors): [humans.top/dataset](https://humans.top/dataset) · [GitHub](https://github.com/dsfox-idea/humans-top) · [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/dsfox/humans-top) · [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/dsfoxx/humans-top) · [Zenodo (DOI)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20809207) · [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/humans-top-open-dataset). > **It is a biographical, named-entity _ranking_ dataset (text + tabular)** — *not* > a computer-vision, image, or person/pedestrian-detection dataset. The rows are > people's names and facts, not pixels or bounding boxes. An open, continuously updated ranking of notable living people, ordered by a fixed composite of **political, financial, informational and cultural influence** computed from public statistical sources. Each entry carries a concise, human-written **descriptor in 15 languages**, a **Wikidata Q-ID** and **English Wikipedia** link for unambiguous entity linking, **verified public facts** (native-language name, country of citizenship, official website, X handle), an influence **tier**, the live **rank**, and a canonical profile URL. - **License:** [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) — public domain. Free for **any** use, **including AI / LLM training**. No attribution required (a link back to [humans.top](https://humans.top) is always welcome). - **Live source of truth:** ([CSV](https://humans.top/dataset/humans.csv) · [JSONL](https://humans.top/dataset/humans.jsonl)) - **Scope (v2):** the editorial / curated set of public figures. It contains no personal data of self-registered users. - **Size:** ~200 entries (exact count + last refresh in `metadata.json`). ## Data quality & verification The data is checked **both automatically and by hand**. Public sources such as Wikidata are sometimes out of date — for example a stored "official website" that has lapsed or now redirects elsewhere — so the linkage fields (**official website**, **X / Twitter account**) are verified by a person and corrected or removed. We prefer an **empty field over a wrong link**. This human pass is repeated periodically, on top of the automated daily refresh. | badge | what it means | |---|---| | **Live** | mirrors the current live ranking | | **Lightweight** | tiny CSV / JSONL — loads in seconds | | **High-quality** | curated, human-written bios in 15 languages | | **Frequently updated** | auto-refreshed daily across every mirror | | **Human-checked** | links & accounts reviewed by a person, not just scraped | ## Files | file | format | |---|---| | `humans.csv` | the ranking — UTF-8 CSV, header row, one row per person | | `humans.jsonl` | same rows as newline-delimited JSON (one object per line) | | `humans-rank-history.csv` | **rank history** — one row per (day, person): `date,user_number,rank` | | `humans-rank-history.jsonl` | same, newline-delimited JSON | | `metadata.json` | machine-readable card: license, columns, languages, row count, `generated_at` | | `CITATION.cff` | citation metadata (GitHub "Cite this repository") | | `LICENSE` | CC0 1.0 Universal legal code | This bundle holds **two datasets**: the current **ranking** (`humans.*`, rich rows with bios/links/facts) and the daily **rank history** (`humans-rank-history.*`, a lean time series). Join them on **`user_number`**. ## Schema | column | meaning | |---|---| | `rank` | 1-based live global position (most influential = 1) | | `user_number` | permanent public ID; appears in the profile URL, never changes | | `name` | display name (English, canonical) | | `tier` | influence tier from rank: `gold` (1–3), `silver` (4–10), `blue` (11+) | | `wikidata_qid` | Wikidata entity Q-ID for disambiguation (e.g. `Q22686`); may be empty | | `wikidata_url` | full Wikidata entity URL; may be empty | | `wikipedia_url` | English Wikipedia article URL; may be empty | | `profile_url` | canonical humans.top profile page | | `avatar_url` | portrait image URL (illustrative, AI-generated); may be empty | | `og_image_url` | Open Graph share-card image URL; may be empty | | `birth_year` / `birth_month` / `birth_day` | date of birth (month/day may be empty) | | `sex` | `male` or `female` | | `native_name` | name in the person's native language/script (e.g. `习近平`); may be empty | | `citizenships_iso` | list of the person's countries of citizenship as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, space-separated (one for most; multi-nationals list all, e.g. `CA US ZA`); may be empty | | `official_website` | official website URL; may be empty | | `x_handle` | X / Twitter handle without the `@`; may be empty | | `wikidata_description` | short English factual descriptor (Wikidata entity description); may be empty | | `viaf_id` / `isni` / `freebase_id` | cross-reference authority IDs for entity resolution; may be empty | | `bio_en` … `bio_ja` | concise descriptor in 15 languages: `en, ru, de, fr, it, es, tr, zh-Hans, pl, sr-Cyrl, ar, hi, bn, pt, ja` | ### Rank history (`humans-rank-history.*`) A lean daily time series of how each person's rank has moved — **history begins 2026-06-25** and grows by one snapshot per ranking change. Join to the ranking above by `user_number` to attach names/bios. | column | meaning | |---|---| | `date` | snapshot date, `YYYY-MM-DD` (UTC) | | `user_number` | the person — **foreign key to `humans.*`** (and the `/u/{user_number}` profile) | | `rank` | that person's 1-based global rank on that date | ```python import pandas as pd hist = pd.read_csv("humans-rank-history.csv") top = pd.read_csv("humans.csv")[["user_number", "name"]] # rank trajectory of #1 today who = top.iloc[0]["user_number"] print(hist[hist.user_number == who][["date", "rank"]]) ``` ## Usage ```python import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("https://humans.top/dataset/humans.csv") print(df[["rank", "name", "tier", "wikidata_qid"]].head(10)) ``` ```python # JSON Lines import json, urllib.request rows = [json.loads(l) for l in urllib.request.urlopen("https://humans.top/dataset/humans.jsonl").read().decode().splitlines()] ``` ```sql -- DuckDB: query the Hub's auto-converted Parquet directly, no download INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs; SELECT rank, name, tier, wikidata_qid FROM 'hf://datasets/dsfox/humans-top@~parquet/default/train/*.parquet' ORDER BY rank LIMIT 10; ``` Or **browse & SQL it online** (no setup): the [Datasette browser](https://huggingface.co/spaces/dsfox/humans-top-datasette). ## How it's built The ranking is generated from public statistical sources by a fixed formula and refreshed automatically; the editorial descriptors are written and translated by the project. This repository is a snapshot of the live endpoints above, regenerated by [`scripts/publish_dataset.py`](https://humans.top) — re-run it to refresh the files. ## How to cite Cite via the DOI [10.5281/zenodo.20809207](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20809207) (it always resolves to the latest version), or: ```bibtex @misc{humanstop, title = {humans.top — Global ranking of influential people (open dataset)}, author = {Golubnichiy, Dmitry}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20809207}, url = {https://humans.top/dataset}, note = {CC0 1.0 (public domain)} } ``` ## Notes & disclaimer - Descriptors are short, deliberately wry editorial summaries — not neutral encyclopedia text. Use `wikidata_qid` / `wikipedia_url` for authoritative facts. - `avatar_url` images are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs. - Ranks change over time; `metadata.json.generated_at` records this snapshot's time. Source & project: