Top 20 American Student Influencers on Instagram (Jul 2026)

We found 724 student Influencers in United States
These influencers mention 'student' in their Instagram bio and have audiences primarily in United States. Here are the top 20. To run a custom search, check out Modash's influencer discovery features (free to try).
07/27/2026
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1. Derrick Lawrence Jr

United States

Giovanni ♊️ Nursing Student 🧑🏾‍⚕️ Gamer 🎮

Followers
487.4k
Fake followers
20.25%
Engagement rate
3.53%
Average Reel plays
68.3k
Audience gender
female
89.17%
male
10.83%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
93.88%
Jamaica
0.83%
South Africa
0.61%
Brazil
0.46%
The Bahamas
0.39%
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3. Sameh Emad

United States

Student in @iaems.academy Media Marketing-Social Manager

Followers
289.4k
Fake followers
21.77%
Engagement rate
12.12%
Average Reel plays
-
Audience gender
female
68.8%
male
31.2%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
95.33%
Canada
1.41%
United Kingdom
1.04%
South Africa
0.3%
Finland
0.15%
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5. AJ †

United States

Denver, CO Nebraska Volleyball #15 @lovb student-athlete | @teamavoli athlete 💌christina@celebexperts.com

Followers
186.2k
Fake followers
11%
Engagement rate
13.24%
Average Reel plays
165.9k
Audience gender
female
64.48%
male
35.52%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
95.94%
Mexico
1.01%
United Kingdom
0.61%
Germany
0.41%
Jamaica
0.2%
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6. Ayaan Sohail

United States

One of the 1st 🇵🇰 D1 NCAA men’s hooper‎ TX | Lifestyle | Fitness | Travel | Medical Student 🩺 الحمدللہ

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7. Marcus McClam

United States

Elite Dynasty paintball #21 Elite Street rider (ESR) Skydiver Snowboarder Roller skater Student Pilot Pro black guy

Followers
166.2k
Fake followers
21.16%
Engagement rate
4.52%
Average Reel plays
141k
Audience gender
female
24.23%
male
75.77%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
90.67%
Mexico
1.33%
Brazil
0.67%
United Kingdom
0.67%
Canada
0.67%
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8. mary be eating

United States

@lovb Student Athlete 🏐 🎥Creator-Storyteller Travel 🌏 Beauty 💄Fashion 👗 Hawaiian 🌺 & Polish 🇵🇱 :) Marybeeating@gmail.com

Followers
157.3k
Fake followers
7.6%
Engagement rate
2.65%
Average Reel plays
115.2k
Audience gender
female
93.02%
male
6.98%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
84.8%
Canada
4.8%
Mexico
0.92%
Italy
0.51%
France
0.51%
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9. Cassie Webb

United States

FNP Student-RN-BSN💉💋 Nurse injector. Gym 🤍 er.

Followers
150.7k
Fake followers
10.67%
Engagement rate
2.61%
Average Reel plays
33.7k
Audience gender
female
79.31%
male
20.69%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
89.06%
Germany
1.56%
Afghanistan
1.56%
Kenya
1.56%
United Kingdom
1.56%
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10. lex 🦋

United States

Esthi student @carrascoskinstudio 24 | Ca

Followers
145.6k
Fake followers
21.11%
Engagement rate
7.78%
Average Reel plays
412.6k
Audience gender
female
89.75%
male
10.25%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
67.23%
Mexico
2.98%
France
2.34%
United Kingdom
2.3%
Canada
2.3%

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11. Hassan Smith

United States

The unc that plays the Melodica. 🎹❤️ Keep going.

Followers
129.4k
Fake followers
23.06%
Engagement rate
325.79%
Average Reel plays
28.6k
Audience gender
female
63.68%
male
36.32%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
88.14%
United Kingdom
2.37%
Canada
1.19%
India
0.79%
Australia
0.79%
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12. alicellani

United States

single mom x2 • vegan homesteading • junior in college • psychology + gender, women, and sexuality student • 100% neurodivergent household

Followers
128.2k
Fake followers
9.33%
Engagement rate
2.01%
Average Reel plays
104.2k
Audience gender
female
96.56%
male
3.44%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
72.2%
United Kingdom
9.57%
Australia
5.13%
Canada
5.07%
New Zealand
0.98%
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13. J.S. Park 박준

Hospital chaplain. Grief support. Korean American. 6th degree black belt. Son to immigrants. Ex-atheist. Follows Christ. New book drops April 2024.

Followers
126.6k
Fake followers
12.6%
Engagement rate
2.07%
Average Reel plays
92.8k
Audience gender
female
84.39%
male
15.61%
Top performing Reels
  1. 690 871
  2. Please learn from my mistakes. A patient told me he was being discharged and I said, “Oh get to go home?” He said, “No. I don’t have one.” He said he was getting a ride soon and I said, “Oh from friend or family?” He said, “The bus.” It was a good, visit but I presumed too much. I felt terrible. I’m normally much more sensitive than this. But I continually realize my privilege and presumptions can be harmful even when it’s not intentional. The patient was very gracious though he had right to be upset. Even years of doing this, I have so much room to grow. • A patient told me he was lonely and I said the old “You are not alone.” He told me “No, I am not just lonely. I outlived my family, including my children. I have no one.” He was objectively alone. I made a crucial mistake: I clichéd over his pain. Even when it’s true, there are times it can be harmful to say “You’re not alone”—as if that’s some new cure. What might have begun to help my patient is not to say a cliché he’s heard hundreds of times, but simply being with his loneliness. Ironically he may have felt less lone. • Sometimes I just don’t connect with my patients. I’ve learned: None of us are the right one for everyone all the time. Maybe I was the warm-up. Planted a seed, opened a door. Or I was wrong, and so I learn. Or my patient is in pain and it was never about me. • Most of the time, a mess-up is mine. I own it, I apologize, I make amends. All my defensive energy must be used to defend the wounded. Marching for justice does not make me immune to missteps. But my coworker told me something that saved me. After a patient berated me, I was sure it was my fault. My coworker said: Not everything is a teachable moment. I want to be teachable, but sometimes I learn it wasn’t on me. To be a chaplain means I enter with heart on the outside. When a visit goes bad, I take it personally. I always wonder what I could’ve done differently. But that assumes I’m the main character in that room. I’m not. I am passing by. A cameo. And I must not make their pain about me. There’s a lot I could do differently. Or—I could wait until the patient has had lunch.
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  3. Seven years later, I’m still here. Thousands of patients, hundreds of deaths, last words and squeezed hands, heart rates down to single digits, chronic pain and headline tragedies and final confessions—I have heard thousands of stories, and in some way have lived thousands of lifetimes. A chaplain is a grief catcher. • I’ve learned this. • It all goes fast. It’s not just that we are here for a short while, but we are paper lanterns and the fire is sudden. I know: not a new idea. But after a shift, when I get back online, back to the dinner table, back to a meeting, back to regular— there is a brief moment, right before I get pulled back into the illusion of forever, that I see the urgency of time. It’s never enough. • If you have heard the loud and long anguish of the bereaved, that wailing from the deep— it is impossible not to be for justice. For the wounded and vulnerable and weary and those shoved to the back row. In the middle of noise there are real voices in grief in need. The only theology and politics and philosophy that I care about is the type that cares. Everything else you can throw in the fire. • Sometimes I sit with my wife and I don’t say a word and we hold hands and I weep remembering them. • When I see my patients, I keep in mind I am a cameo. My goal is never to be a hero in their story, but only to help them be the hero in theirs. I am a cheerleader, a footnote. May I never be the center, not holding hands to lead them, but to be with them. I serve their stories. I am glad to be in their shadow. To hold their spotlight. To be their candle. I would do this again, a thousand lifetimes. To my patients, I hope I have honored you.
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Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
75.79%
Canada
6.54%
Philippines
2.44%
United Kingdom
2.02%
Australia
1.82%
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14. Tyler Vargas-Andrews

United States

Brand-@tyrantdesign "Power resides where men believe it resides" Student of discipline and balance Never A Victim P.I.G. 2x Amp. C.P.T. A.I.T. Speaker

Followers
113.9k
Fake followers
19.36%
Engagement rate
2.12%
Average Reel plays
41.7k
Audience gender
female
24.07%
male
75.94%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
88.45%
United Kingdom
1.46%
Canada
1.13%
Japan
0.82%
Australia
0.7%
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15. darrion nguyen

United States

former scientist turned fashion design student ma student @unioftheartslondon @lcflondon_ 💌: teamdarrion@gersh.com @gershagency

Followers
109.4k
Fake followers
9.84%
Engagement rate
4.05%
Average Reel plays
43.6k
Audience gender
female
80.99%
male
19.01%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
53.54%
Canada
8.7%
United Kingdom
6.74%
Australia
5.87%
Mexico
1.79%
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16. Julia Hava🌹

United States

PhD student, podcastress @binchtopiapod 💌 isabel@gallantcreativemgmt.com

Followers
105.1k
Fake followers
20.33%
Engagement rate
3.36%
Average Reel plays
103.3k
Audience gender
female
84.22%
male
15.78%
Top performing Reels
  1. 64 546
  2. 55 391
  3. 40 666
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
61.37%
United Kingdom
7.41%
Canada
7.02%
Australia
4.7%
Brazil
1.87%
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17. Garrett Nussmeier

United States

☧ | Student of the game 💭 @lsufootball @elite11 finalist Business Inquires: Jsilver@athletesfirst.net

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18. Sam CCC-SLP | SLP Grad Student Advocate

United States

🎤 Keynote Speaker | Designer | SLP 🫧 Interactive Learning for Students @slptestprep 🌸 Humor, Advocacy & Community 👇🏽 SLP Stickers, Merch + Gifts

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19. BJ 🇳🇬🇨🇲

United States

dental student + mental health advocate 📩: bedes@vonticreative.com represented by @vonticreatives

Followers
103.5k
Fake followers
20.6%
Engagement rate
2.92%
Average Reel plays
30.5k
Audience gender
female
82.12%
male
17.88%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
81.58%
United Kingdom
2.73%
France
1.63%
Brazil
1.6%
Canada
1.21%
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20. sandrallynn

United States

dominicana ♡︎ fl | law student ⚖️

Followers
92.8k
Fake followers
23.39%
Engagement rate
6.72%
Average Reel plays
-
Audience gender
female
40.78%
male
59.22%
Top performing Reels
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
93.67%
Puerto Rico
1.96%
Dominican Republic
0.8%
Mexico
0.53%
United Kingdom
0.36%

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