Facebook is the biggest social platform in the world and celebrities who receive the highest number of ‘likes’ are also arguably the most popular stars on the internet – and we say internet only because India lags way behind when it comes to penetration of the internet in smaller towns and villages.
The most followed Indian is Prime Minister Narendra Modi with more than 32 million followers on Facebook. The PM is closely followed by Deepika Padukone, who has just crossed the 31 million mark. Deepika happens to be the biggest and most popular female star in the country today.
The second position is occupied by Salman Khan, who recently crossed the 30 million ‘likes’ mark. Salman is widely considered to be the numero uno star in the industry today, an actor who has delivered an unprecedented 7 blockbusters in the last 6 years.
Yo Yo Honey Singh, Shreya Ghoshal and Amitabh Bachchan are in the Top 5.
Check out the Top 25 list of most followed celebrities
- Salman Khan 35,406,195 likes
- Deepika Padukone 34,154,284 likes
- Priyanka Chopra 32,400,202 likes
- Yo Yo Honey Singh 30,373,585 likes
- Shreya Ghoshal 28,359,402 likes
- Amitabh Bachchan 27,321,684 likes
- Madhuri Dixit Nene 26,113,323 likes
- Kapil Sharma 26,099,891 likes
- Akshay Kumar 23,807,353 likes
- Sonakshi Sinha 23,776,508 likes
- Shahrukh Khan 23,663,786 likes
- Kajal Agarwal 23,421,339 likes
- Sunny Leone 23,327,428 likes
- Jacqueline Fernandez 22,862,090 likes
- A.R. Rahman 22,840,349 likes
- Atif Aslam 20,179,392 likes
- Sonu Nigam 18,871,737 likes
- Arijit Singh 17,770,301 likes
- Hrithik Roshan 16,793,905 likes
- Shraddha Kapoor 16,477,297 likes
- Shahid Kapoor 16,000,372 likes
- Aamir Khan 15,400,689 likes
- Sonam Kapoor 15,322,456 likes
- Sunidhi Chauhan 13,198,161 likes
- Parineeti Chopra 10,717,160 likes
- Nargis Fakhri 10,151,130 likes
- Yami Gautam 10,056,878 likes
- Ranveer Singh 9,420,190 likes
- Anushka Sharma 8,515,087 likes
- Tiger Shroff 8,052,454 likes
- Lata Mangeshkar 7,759,721 likes
- Arjun Kapoor 7,749,143 likes
- John Abraham 7,408,139 likes
- Ajay Devgn 6,127,504 likes
- Bipasha Basu 6,028,514 likes
- Sidharth Malhotra 5,247,597 likes
- Mohit Chauhan 5,026,287 likes
- Abhishek Bachchan 5,001,554 likes
- Ranbir Kapoor 3,899,533 likes
- Varun Dhawan 2,591,269 likes
- Emraan Hashmi 2,245,436 likes
- Farhan Akhtar 2,198,332 likes
- Sushant Singh Rajput 1,122,767 likes
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 688,133 likes
- Kareena Kapoor 73,020 likes
- Kangana Ranaut 53,645 likes
Nice article indicine, can you please make sure it reaches to Varun. He always ignores facebook.
i have to comment again and again now 3rd mistake there are 10,752,996 fans of shraddha kapoor and she is not in your list didnt you check your facts and figures before publishing ? i am damn damn sure you are missing others as well
omg god where is sonam kapoor she has 14,507,433 fans plz correct your list
zarine khan has 11,338,322 fans
@Fasal Kerala: What crap logic..Hope Fasal gets some Akal!
Virat kohli also 25.3 million. and gowing strong because of his performance in WC. gained 100k likes every day. few days back 24 million and now 25.3 . and nearly 10 million on twitter.
Atif Aslam – 18,838,587
Arijit Singh – 13,684,260
Lata Mangeshkar – 7,606,864
Karishma Kapoor – 5,810,863
Bipasha Basu – 5,187,262
Mohit Chauhan – 5,104,337
@Sunny Alcoholoc,yes yes thats why his movies are collecting 500 cr and more in India.
@FASAL I m not getting wht logic u always talk continuously talk here ? I don’t remember wht i said in past . Explain?
Nd Nobody is talking about Collections here . When you bumbass fan will learn to argue on point ?
Just focus on wht i say tht 70% population of India belongs to small cities nd towns where akshays fan following is bigger then srk amir . nd even in metro cities Akshay is building his fan Base again which was lost due to movies like cc2c, Tees Mar khan, boss . He is back on track . Happy dil wali holi.. dilwale
actresses gets more likes is understandable coz of Tharkis in Facebook. Even sonakshi, sunny has more like than aamir. And fb users sucks here.
lol Tom cruise have only 10 million likes on facebook and other people like kim k,selena g,sakira,katty perry,telor swift and footballers have 50 to 110 millions likes on facebook but it doesn’t mean that they are more famous or they have more worldwide fans then Tom cruise or leo
KING KHAN DOES NOT NEED FB FOLLOWERS.. HE IS THE KING!!
If sallu’s ullu fans are thinking KING KHAN is behind sallu,then should also have to consider Deepika who launched by KING KHAN is bigger star than decade struggler lalluman.
KING SRK—-NO.1 MEGASTAR OF ALL TIME
virat kohli—-no.1 sportsman of recent times.
Are they less popular than puny stars than deepika,salman,honey Singh,kapil sharma,makkhi Kumar even shreya ghosal?,ROFL.
The only difference is they are not paying to get fake likes.so simple.
If these fake followers having stars so much likes,then where are their position in twitter which is actually using by them heavily?they don’t have even half of the followers in twitters.even tom cruise,brad Pitt also doesn’t have these much followers proves these followings in Facebook by top 15 are completely fake.
@sunny akkiholic,KING KHAN has biggest single screen audience because HE succeeded in all 3 decades unlike your makkhi who was unknown in 90’s and useless now.
Jacquline have 20mm follower soon reach at 30mm love you gorgeous
@sunny : u r rite dude. Akki has very large fan following in smaller cities. But may be those cities r so small that no movie releases there. Thats the reason Akkis movies do 70 cr only inspite of the very large fan following. ??
@Chainsmoker bingo!
@Bollywood guide.. Bingo
@challa… 8.10… Sure!!
Am laughing @Sunny. So kapil Sharma if am told is more popular than akki I should agree? Sonu nigam more popular than Srk.. I Shd believe? a Shahid more than Aamir Hrithik? Arjun popular than Ajay. well thank goodness everyone knows it’s a platform but how often are reserved ones here? Where’s Virat? Sania Mirza. What of those who do not even have time to post pixs,articles.. Where they are going esp reserved ones?
Final question…you were barking about Ranbir.. What happened? you proved you are a bitter loser and just argue blindly.. Made a whole page talking of Ranbir followers. This has nothing to do with popularity as @Challa @Bollywood guide and Chain smoker stated.
Lastly… It’s a pride even for kids like you to do the likes or dislikes but other fans first comment is…wow nice to see or cool..or I don’t concur with this… Your 1st comment is Ajay Devgn??? boy I don’t think the number of movies Akki has done in his career is more than 1/4 (quarter) the number of times you mentioned Ajays name 2016.
@indicine… Lovely article.. Honestly knowing how late n public shy Ajay is he would even be @25. He is not only an actor but a producer, distributor director who joined the social media world quite late (his wish).. So which time? As many readers pointed out..you guys missed lots of people unknowingly.. Them included I think Ajay will even fall lower BUT THAT HAS NOTHING.. PROUDLY BEAT MY CHEST NOTHING NEAR ANYTHING ABOUT POPULARITY. Ofcourse you expect the younger IT age actors sona deeps shahid ranveer kajal to be there… Shahid ahead of Hrithik Aamir means what? Sonu Arjun ahead of SrK And Ajay respectively means what??? nothing…… Nice,esp for those who wants to see their favourites…
Good to Salman and Amitabh interacting alot. Esp Amit Sir…
@Sunny chechi… Tanx Happy holi too. Try and reduce thinking about Ajay too much. Don’t give yourself hypertension. He is there in Bulgaria enjoying with his family.. Snowboard riding with his son Yug as we are talking at the sets of Shivaay while Kajol Nysa,Abigail Eames are having a great time on d sets too. Your existence is completely null.
@sunny akkiholic ohh please no way akshay has more following than shahrukh khan…han aamir i can agree. but he is behind shah foh sure.bdw which logic u are talking about.
80% of people living in rural areas dont have fb account.so you get ur facts right…out of those 80 seventy percent are shahrukh fans(applying your logic)
@Mahnish the Srk fan…
Bingo too… I wanted mentioning those of Brad Pitt Johnny Depp Christine bale Matt Damon Robert Downey Al pacino etc they virtually have way to low… But no need.. You summarized it perfectly…
Happy holi once again.. All of you have a great Easter break. Sleep tyt all..
srk fb page is not official page so likes are low
This is actually a v nonsense article if twitter or FACEBOOK would have been a criteria of stardom then you could have replace Ajay Devgn with Yo Yo singh or Shahid. Following depends how active or interactive star is with his followers. Number of followers does not define stardom..
@Indicine you cannot publish an correct article like me that many missed by me in my list. Becouse it is facebook here in India is numberous Indian who have great fan following on facebook.
But you did should publish this Article on Top 25 Indian not only Bollywood. Becouse we want know.
Tendulkar is also in Top 5 & Kohli is 7th.
Ashu Kumar
@Maya active ho kya ab tak. Sleep now. Good morning everybody
@ Babaji ka thullu I have repeated so many times… Really I have no problem with Akki & his fans… but Fans like @Sunny makkhiholic Always commenting shit in Srk Articles… First tell ur friends to stop crap logic in Srk Articles…
#Fasal kerala
@Sunny Akkiholic bro u also Just focus on wht i say tht 60% box office collection
of India belongs to metro cities nd towns
where akshay box office trend is billow then
Varun & Ranveer…
Really Akki is a Hard working Actor & Action khiladi.. and also a self made superstar like SRK…
And Again warning for you several times I tell that…. plz don’t create hate me to Akki
Any way eagarly waiting for Fan… 21 days left…
Duniya ka Sabse bada superstar ka sabse bada Fan
#Fasal kerala
@sunny. .I wonder y u remain alkohlic all the time. Legends don’t need twitter or Facebook followers neither they need 3 or 4 films in a year.
@being it’s 2pm as per Calgary time.
Now for SRK fans, Facebook is not authentic when comes to fan following. Twitter also have so many fake followers. I dont even know some people and never seen them who are following me on Twitter. Always bias and double standard logic by haklu fans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The real, raw and sheer stardom is how much your movies earning in small cities and single screens !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When will joker boy cross 100 Cr next? Ans. 404 error. LOL. Joker boy has huge fan following thanks to many fake ids and small towns high are so small that hardly 10-20 people live there. ??
Ha ha ha. Poor ajay devgn at the bottom? LOL. Shame on him. That guy is the ugliest looking actor I have ever seen. His acting Is also very irritating and over the top. He looks like a d grade actor. He doesn’t have any fan following. Shame shame. Even his 1 or 2 fans should be shamed to.be fan of such flop actor. LOL. As one guy said, his level is lower than Arjun and ranveer. Lol. The day is not far when even sushan Singh rajpoot, aditya Roy kapoor or tiger shroff, suraj pancholi will over take him in popularity.
Go Deepika! Our very own female superstar <3
its really confusing, joker kapil sharma, 3rd class yo yo, irritating sonakshi have more likes than the legend Aamir khan. RIP indian cinema