2025’s Most Popular Celebrity With Schoolkids is...

Here are final comics of 2025, produced with kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses, at Heron Hall in Potters Bar. The celebrities these two classes chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Beyonce and Mr Beast. Leaving us with just one question: across all the schools I've visited and the classes I've done, of all the celebrities they've named, who is 2025's Most Popular Celebrity?

In every class I do a demonstration strip on the flipchart and ask for a celeb to draw in it. They give me four names, we do a quick knockout vote, and the winning one is the one I draw. It keeps them engaged, I like to think. 

2025’s Most Popular Celebrity With Schoolkids is...

This list of 165 mentions (suggesting I did 82 and a half days of Comic Art Masterclasses this year, and I must say it felt like more) is a fair representation of the names floating in the heads of school kids. So who has beaten last year’s winning pair of Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift?

Runners Up

Just outside the Top Ten, each having been chosen once only (and including the best and most original suggestions of the year obviously)…

Adam Sandler

Alexander Graham Bell

Ant McPartlin

Bruno Mars

Charles LeClerc (a racing driver)

David Attenborough

David Beckham

Diego Jota (recently deceased footballer)

George Washington

Gordon Ramsay

Harry Potter

James Hetfield out of Mettalica

John Cena

Justin Bieber

Keanu Reeves

Kim Kardashian

King Richard The First

Kurt Cobain

Mr Tumble

Neymar

Paul McCartney

Rick Astley

Ringo Starr

Ryan Gosling

Sherlock Holmes

Simon Cowell

Sir Francis Drake

Stephen Hawking

Strawberry (nickname of a pupil)

The Queen

Zendaya

In joint 10th place, chosen twice:

Alan Carr 

Caseoh (Youtuber) 

Drake 

Eminem 

Freddie Mercury 

Harry Styles 

Ice Spice 

Jesus 

LeBron James 

Lionel Messi 

Michael McIntyre 

Olivia Rodrigo  

Richard The Third 

Ryan Reynolds 

Tom Holland 

Joint 9th place, chosen three times apiece:

Ariana Grande 

Beyonce 

Billie Eilish 

Elvis Presley 

Jack Black 

8th place chosen 4 times: 

Angry Ginge 

(all four suggestions were on the same day, when I did talks instead of classes and he was the flavour of the week on I’m A Celebrity, forgotten soon afterwards)

7th place, chosen 5 times:

Elon Musk 

King Charles 

6th place, chosen 7 times: 

Sabrina Carpenter 

5th place, chosen 8 times:

Donald Trump 

4th place, chosen 9 times

Dwayne The Rock Johnson 

3rd place, chosen 10 times:

Cristiano Ronaldo

Joint second, chosen 13 times each:

Michael Jackson 

Taylor Swift 

And the winner, chosen 15 times, is…

Mr Beast

Mr Beast tops the chart for the first time, having come in joint third place last year, behind Dwayne Johnson in second place, and and Swift and Jackson sharing the top spot.