Trending Biologists — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed biologists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Vivek Ramaswamy. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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2,074,688
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Vivek Ramaswamy
American presidential candidate and businessman (born 1985)
386,807
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
70,639
views
views
3
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
66,438
views
views
4
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
52,591
views
views
5
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
52,560
views
views
6
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
49,971
views
views
7
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
48,845
views
views
8
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
46,115
views
views
9
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
45,529
views
views
10
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
45,464
views
views
11
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
45,185
views
views
12
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
42,124
views
views
13
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
40,304
views
views
14
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
37,762
views
views
15
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
34,829
views
views
16
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
32,344
views
views
17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
31,692
views
views
18
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
30,397
views
views
19
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
27,173
views
views
20
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
26,579
views
views
21
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
24,533
views
views
22
Lulinha
Brazilian biologist
19,513
views
views
23
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
18,837
views
views
24
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
18,579
views
views
25
David M. Sabatini
biologist who discovered mTOR
18,471
views
views
26
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
18,363
views
views
27
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
17,623
views
views
28
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
17,508
views
views
29
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
17,483
views
views
30
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
17,449
views
views
31
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
17,378
views
views
32
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
17,318
views
views
33
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
16,994
views
views
34
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
16,552
views
views
35
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
16,075
views
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
16,030
views
views
37
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
14,106
views
views
38
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
14,050
views
views
39
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
13,995
views
views
40
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
13,969
views
views
41
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
13,523
views
views
42
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
13,417
views
views
43
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French doctor, writer and diplomat
13,346
views
views
44
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
12,947
views
views
45
George P. Putnam
American publisher, author, and explorer (1887-1950)
12,328
views
views
46
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
12,326
views
views
47
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
12,066
views
views
48
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
11,637
views
views
49
Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
11,431
views
views
50
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
11,290
views
views
51
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
10,742
views
views
52
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
10,656
views
views
53
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
10,479
views
views
54
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,428
views
views
55
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Joe Exotic
American zoo operator, internet personality, and musician
10,396
views
views
56
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
10,026
views
views
57
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,821
views
views
58
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
9,797
views
views
59
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
9,761
views
views
60
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
9,409
views
views
61
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
9,082
views
views
62
Timothy Treadwell
American documentary filmmaker (1957–2003)
9,052
views
views
63
Karl Deisseroth
American optogeneticist
8,587
views
views
64
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
8,552
views
views
65
Andrew D. Huberman
American neuroscientist
8,467
views
views
66
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
8,223
views
views
67
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
8,168
views
views
68
Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
8,159
views
views
69
Hideyo Noguchi
Japanese bacteriologist (1876–1928)
8,051
views
views
70
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
7,953
views
views
71
Ursula K. Abbott
Canadian-American scientist (1927–2012)
7,866
views
views
72
Ali Hazelwood
Italian neuroscientist and author
7,781
views
views
73
Tom Hart Dyke
British gardener
7,627
views
views
74
Sayako Kuroda
Japanese Shinto priestess, former ornithologist, and former imperial princess
7,584
views
views
75
Maya Higa
American conservationist, falconer, wildlife rehabilitator, and Twitch streamer
7,408
views
views
76
Jack Kevorkian
American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
7,303
views
views
77
Yasushi Okada
Japanese biologist
7,302
views
views
78
Johnny Appleseed
American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)
7,300
views
views
79
Derek Shepherd
fictional character from the television show Grey's Anatomy
7,286
views
views
80
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
7,195
views
views
81
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
7,068
views
views
82
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
6,989
views
views
83
Haruko Obokata
Japanese stem-cell researcher (born 1983)
6,953
views
views
84
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
6,919
views
views
85
Jeremy Wade
British television presenter and author
6,905
views
views
86
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
6,882
views
views
87
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
6,818
views
views
88
Amelia Shepherd
fictional character on the ABC American television medical drama Private Practice
6,766
views
views
89
Jared Diamond
American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
6,672
views
views
90
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
6,649
views
views
91
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
6,624
views
views
92
Gisela Jacobasch
German university teacher
6,446
views
views
93
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
6,440
views
views
94
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
6,352
views
views
95
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
6,315
views
views
96
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
6,273
views
views
97
Eugene Sledge
United States Marine (1923-2001)
6,239
views
views
98
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
6,206
views
views
99
Cesar Millan
Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality
6,199
views
views
100
Albert Lebrun
15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
6,027
views
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