The Most Famous

YOUTUBERS from United States

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This page contains a list of the greatest American Youtubers. The pantheon dataset contains 60 Youtubers, 26 of which were born in United States. This makes United States the birth place of the most number of Youtubers.

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary American Youtubers of all time. This list of famous American Youtubers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of American Youtubers.

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1. Angry Grandpa (1950 - 2017)

With an HPI of 54.49, Angry Grandpa is the most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Charles Marvin Green Jr. (October 16, 1950 – December 10, 2017), better known as Angry Grandpa, was an American YouTuber. His videos have been featured on HLN's Dr. Drew, TruTV's Most Shocking, Rude Tube, and MTV's Pranked. Green's YouTube channel TheAngryGrandpaShow has amassed a total of 4.76 million subscribers and 1.78 billion views. Following prior health complications, Green died of cirrhosis in 2017.

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2. Logan Paul (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 53.06, Logan Paul is the 2nd most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 44 different languages.

Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American influencer, retired professional wrestler, entrepreneur, and actor. He is also known as 'The Maverick', has over 23 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, and has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021. He is the co-founder of beverage company Prime and snack brand Lunchly. Paul has also run the Impaulsive podcast since November 2018, which has over four million YouTube subscribers. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE since June 2022 where he performs on a part-time basis and is a former WWE United States Champion. Paul gained a following in 2013, posting sketches on the now-defunct video-sharing application Vine. He registered his first YouTube channel, TheOfficialLoganPaul, on October 18, 2013, where he started posting regularly following the closure of the Vine app. He later created the Logan Paul Vlogs channel on August 29, 2015, which has since become his most-subscribed YouTube channel. As of August 2023, the channel has received 23.6 million subscribers and almost 6 billion views. As an actor, Paul's television and film work includes guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Bizaardvark, and roles in films The Thinning (2016) and The Thinning: New World Order (2018). He has also explored other avenues; he released his debut single "2016" in 2016, and fought English media personality KSI in a white-collar boxing match in 2018. The fight ended in a majority draw. In the 2019 rematch, which was a professional bout, KSI won by split decision. After a couple of brief appearances in WWE in 2021, he made his professional wrestling debut as The Miz's tag team partner in a tag team match at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022, which they won and Paul received praise for his performance. He then signed a contract with WWE in June that year and later won the WWE United States Championship in November 2023. Paul has been involved in several controversies, most notably in relation to a trip to Japan in December 2017, during which he visited the Aokigahara forest (a notorious suicide site), filmed himself finding the corpse of a suicide victim, and uploaded the footage to his YouTube channel. Others include his promotion of scams and failed ventures, including CryptoZoo—in which he failed to compensate more than $1.5 million to investors despite promising to do so.

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3. Jake Paul (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 50.44, Jake Paul is the 3rd most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 35 different languages.

Jake Joseph Paul (born January 17, 1997) is an American professional boxer, influencer and actor. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued. As an actor, he played Dirk Mann on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark (2016–2018). Paul launched his YouTube channel in May 2014, and has ranked on the Forbes list as one of the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023. Paul's boxing career began in August 2018 with a white-collar boxing match against Deji Olatunji, which he won via technical knockout. His professional boxing debut was against AnEsonGib in January 2020. He later faced and defeated former basketball player Nate Robinson and former MMA fighters Ben Askren, Tyron Woodley (twice), and Anderson Silva. In February 2023, Paul lost to Tommy Fury via split decision in his first fight with an active professional boxer. He then built a winning streak defeating Nate Diaz, Andre August, Ryan Bourland and Mike Perry. His November 2024 bout against Mike Tyson, which he won via unanimous decision, became the biggest boxing gate in U.S. history outside of Las Vegas. In 2021, Paul founded Most Valuable Promotions, a boxing promotion alongside his adviser Nakisa Bidarian, and founded Anti Fund, a venture capital firm with Geoffrey Woo.

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4. Shane Dawson (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 47.80, Shane Dawson is the 4th most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 44 different languages.

Shane Lee Yaw (born July 19, 1988), known online as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, writer, and musician. Dawson was one of the first people to rise to fame on YouTube after he began making videos in 2008 at the age of 19 and garnered over 500 million views during the next two years. Most of Dawson's early work consisted of comedy sketches in which he would play original characters, impersonate celebrities, and make light of popular culture. Some of these impressions later drew criticism for their offensive content, including racial stereotypes. He has released six original songs such as "Superluv!" and numerous parodies of popular music videos. In 2013, he started the podcast Shane and Friends, which ran for 140 episodes over four years. In 2014, he directed, produced, edited, and starred in the romantic comedy film Not Cool and appeared on the accompanying docu-series The Chair. He has also appeared in the horror film Smiley (2012) and the comedy film Internet Famous (2016). In 2015, Dawson began discussing conspiracy theories on his YouTube channel, which led to his 2019 web series Conspiracy Series with Shane Dawson. In 2017, he released his first docu-series on YouTube, in which he reconciled with his absent father. From 2019 to 2020, he created and appeared in the docu-series The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, which garnered over 130 million views. His most viewed docu-series are about Jeffree Star, Jake Paul, and Tana Mongeau. Dawson has released two New York Times best-selling books, I Hate Myselfie (2015) and It Gets Worse (2016), and his three YouTube channels have collectively accumulated over 4.5 billion views. Since 2017, he has updated only his main channel, which has over 20 million subscribers and over 4 billion views. In June 2020, YouTube indefinitely suspended monetization on all three of his channels and his books were pulled from shelves following a public backlash over numerous controversial comments he had made in the past, particularly regarding underage girls and zoophilia. He took a hiatus and returned to YouTube on October 7, 2021.

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5. Charli D'Amelio (b. 2004)

With an HPI of 47.23, Charli D'Amelio is the 5th most famous American Youtuber.  Her biography has been translated into 50 different languages.

Charli Grace D'Amelio ( də-MIL-ee-oh; born May 1, 2004) is an American social media personality and dancer. She was a competitive dancer for over a decade before starting her social media career in 2019, when she began posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok. She quickly amassed a large following and subsequently became the most-followed creator on the platform in March 2020 until she was surpassed by Khaby Lame in June 2022. With over 155 million followers, she is the second most-followed person on TikTok, as of 2024. D'Amelio made her feature film debut with a voice role in the 2020 animated film StarDog and TurboCat. She starred in the Hulu reality series The D'Amelio Show (2021–present) with her family and co-led the Snap Original reality show Charli vs. Dixie (2021–2022), with her sister. In 2022, D'Amelio won the thirty-first season of the dance competition series Dancing with the Stars alongside Mark Ballas. She made her Broadway debut in the ensemble of & Juliet in October 2024. Her other endeavours include two books, a podcast, a nail polish collection, a mattress, a makeup line, a clothing line, and a multi-product company. She was the first person to surpass both 50 million and 100 million followers on TikTok. D'Amelio was the highest-earning TikTok female personality in 2019 and the highest-earning personality on the app in 2022, according to Forbes, and is often described as TikTok's biggest star.

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6. MrBeast (b. 1998)

With an HPI of 45.77, MrBeast is the 6th most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 52 different languages.

James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, internet personality, and businessman. He is known for his fast-paced and high-production videos featuring elaborate challenges and lucrative giveaways. With over 330 million subscribers, he has the most subscribers of any YouTube channel, and is the third-most-followed creator on TikTok with over 104 million followers. He also has over 60 million followers on Instagram and 30.9 million on X (formerly Twitter). Donaldson grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. He began posting videos to YouTube in early 2012 under the handle MrBeast6000. His early content ranged from Let's Plays to "videos estimating the wealth of other YouTubers". He went viral in 2017 after his "counting to 100,000" video earned tens of thousands of views in just a few days. His videos have become increasingly grand and extravagant. Once his channel took off, Donaldson hired some of his childhood friends to co-run the brand. Donaldson also runs the YouTube channels Beast Reacts (formerly BeastHacks), MrBeast Gaming, MrBeast 2 (formerly MrBeast Shorts), and the philanthropy channel Beast Philanthropy. Donaldson is the founder of MrBeast Burger, Feastables, and a co-founder of Team Trees, a fundraiser for the Arbor Day Foundation that has raised over $24 million for its campaigns, and Lunchly, a food and snack brand similar to Lunchables. He also co-founded Team Seas, a fundraiser for Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup that has raised over $30 million. Donaldson won the Creator of the Year award four years in a row at the Streamy Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023; he also won the Favorite Male Creator award three times at the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. In 2023, Time named him as one of the world's 100 most influential people. He has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest-paid YouTube creator in 2022 and has an estimated net worth of $500 million. In September 2024, Donaldson was one of the subjects of a class action lawsuit that alleged widespread mistreatment, sexual harassment, and unpaid expenses and wages on his upcoming reality television series Beast Games.

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7. Dream (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 42.27, Dream is the 7th most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Clay (born August 12, 1999), known online as Dream, is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, speedrunner, and singer primarily known for creating Minecraft content. Dream has been active online since 2014, but did not gain substantial popularity until 2019, with the release of his "Minecraft Manhunt" YouTube series. Dream also gained notability for his Minecraft speedruns; however, several of his records were struck down due to evidence of cheating. Content created in the Dream SMP, Dream's invite-only survival multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft server that stars content creators engaged in roleplay, also attracted considerable attention, acclaim and a popular fandom. As of August 12, 2023, his seven YouTube channels have collectively reached over 43.51 million subscribers and over 3.66 billion views, and his two Twitch channels have collectively gained 7.37 million followers and 19.01 million views. YouTube awarded Dream the Streamy Award for Gaming in 2020, 2021, and 2023.

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8. Liza Koshy (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 41.53, Liza Koshy is the 8th most famous American Youtuber.  Her biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Elizabeth Shaila Koshy (born March 31, 1996) is an American YouTuber, media personality and actress. Her main YouTube channel has amassed almost 17 million subscribers, and her two channels have a combined total of over 3 billion views. She has received four Streamy Awards, four Teen Choice Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award. Koshy began her career on Vine in 2013, before starting a YouTube channel. She made her acting debut as Aday Walker in Tyler Perry's horror comedy film Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016), and went on to star as Violet Adams in the Hulu horror drama series Freakish (2016–2017) and The Explorer in the YouTube Premium mystery series Escape the Night (2017–2019). She was also a correspondent for the MTV television series Total Request Live (2017–2018). Koshy co-created, produced and starred as the title character in the YouTube Premium comedy series Liza on Demand (2018–2021), which earned her several accolades, and hosted the Nickelodeon game show revival Double Dare (2018–2019), for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She starred in the Netflix dance comedy film Work It (2020), and had voice roles in the animated adventure film My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) and the science fiction film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). Koshy was included in the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list, as well as the Time 2019 list of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet and its 100 Next list that same year.

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9. Josh Peck (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 39.48, Josh Peck is the 9th most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages.

Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, comedian, and YouTuber. Peck began his career as a child actor, appearing in the film Snow Day (2000) and the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series The Amanda Show (2000–2002). He had his breakthrough playing Josh Nichols on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh (2004–2007) and in the television films Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (2006) and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008). He also began voicing Eddie in the Ice Age franchise (2006–2016). Peck's film roles include Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Spun (2002), Drillbit Taylor (2008), What Goes Up (2009), Red Dawn (2012), The Timber (2015), Chronically Metropolitan (2016), and Oppenheimer (2023). He voiced Casey Jones in the Nickelodeon animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012–2017), starred in the Fox comedy series Grandfathered (2015–2016) and the Disney+ series Turner & Hooch (2021). He has run the comedic lifestyle YouTube channel, Shua Vlogs, since 2017.

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10. Bryan Dechart (b. 1987)

With an HPI of 36.44, Bryan Dechart is the 10th most famous American Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Bryan Patrick Dechart (born March 17, 1987) is an American actor and Twitch streamer. He is best known for his role as Connor in the video game Detroit: Become Human. He also played Eli Chandler on the television series Jane by Design and made appearances on Switched at Birth and True Blood.

People

Pantheon has 30 people classified as American youtubers born between 1950 and 2004. Of these 30, 28 (93.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living American youtubers include Logan Paul, Jake Paul, and Shane Dawson. The most famous deceased American youtubers include Angry Grandpa, and Etika. As of April 2024, 3 new American youtubers have been added to Pantheon including Marques Brownlee, Emma Chamberlain, and Bethany Mota.

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