Trending Biologists this year
The 100 most-viewed biologists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Fauci.
100
Ranked
3,425,548
Total Views (this year)
Country
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πΊπΈ USA
π©πͺ Germany
π«π· France
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πͺπΈ Spain
π§π· Brazil
π·πΊ Russia
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1
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
512,828
views
views
2
Bill Oddie
British actor, writer, composer, musician, comedian, ornithologist, conservationist, television presenter
462,521
views
views
3
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
136,423
views
views
4
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858β1919)
126,929
views
views
5
Christine Grady
nurse-bioethicist and researcher
89,163
views
views
6
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
88,811
views
views
7
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
87,760
views
views
8
Paul Walker
American actor (1973β2013)
79,102
views
views
9
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
75,458
views
views
10
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
66,914
views
views
11
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856β1939)
58,209
views
views
12
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
52,742
views
views
13
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
51,142
views
views
14
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
43,944
views
views
15
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812β1870)
43,186
views
views
16
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920β1992)
40,320
views
views
17
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
39,525
views
views
18
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
39,326
views
views
19
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
38,013
views
views
20
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
34,531
views
views
21
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934β2025)
30,774
views
views
22
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728β1779)
30,247
views
views
23
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
29,104
views
views
24
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886β1956)
25,680
views
views
25
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932β1985)
25,565
views
views
26
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
25,532
views
views
27
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945β2026)
25,016
views
views
28
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
24,810
views
views
29
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
23,345
views
views
30
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Joe Exotic
American zoo operator, internet personality, and musician
23,256
views
views
31
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
23,215
views
views
32
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899β1977)
23,087
views
views
33
Christopher Duntsch
American neurosurgeon and convicted criminal for malpractice
22,963
views
views
34
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
22,798
views
views
35
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
21,958
views
views
36
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817β1862)
21,635
views
views
37
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
21,622
views
views
38
Deborah L. Birx
American physician and diplomat
21,362
views
views
39
Timothy Treadwell
American documentary filmmaker (1957β2003)
20,985
views
views
40
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866β1943)
20,389
views
views
41
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098β1179)
20,223
views
views
42
Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
20,000
views
views
43
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
19,927
views
views
44
Anne Wojcicki
American biotech analyst, biologist, businesswoman, and co-founder of 23andMe
19,847
views
views
45
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
18,871
views
views
46
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905β1997)
18,857
views
views
47
Cesar Millan
Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality
18,053
views
views
48
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
17,887
views
views
49
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
17,877
views
views
50
Jack Kevorkian
American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
17,404
views
views
51
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
17,242
views
views
52
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
16,908
views
views
53
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
16,348
views
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
15,817
views
views
55
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
15,273
views
views
56
Maya Higa
American conservationist, falconer, wildlife rehabilitator, and Twitch streamer
15,121
views
views
57
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,881
views
views
58
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
14,410
views
views
59
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
14,369
views
views
60
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,348
views
views
61
ShirΕ Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese
14,263
views
views
62
Maneka Gandhi
Indian politician and activist
14,073
views
views
63
Johnny Appleseed
American nurseryman and missionary (1774β1845)
13,913
views
views
64
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
13,818
views
views
65
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
13,627
views
views
66
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914β1995)
12,156
views
views
67
Andrew D. Huberman
American neuroscientist
12,151
views
views
68
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer (1774-1809)
12,103
views
views
69
Stephen Strange
character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
12,046
views
views
70
Forrest Galante
outdoor adventurer, wildlife biologist, herpetologist, and television personality
11,968
views
views
71
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822β1884)
11,882
views
views
72
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
11,779
views
views
73
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901β1983)
11,754
views
views
74
Jeremy Wade
British television presenter and author
11,542
views
views
75
Roger Bannister
English physician and athlete (1929β2018)
11,474
views
views
76
Spider-Man 2099
superhero appearing in Marvel Comics
11,473
views
views
77
Ernst JΓΌnger
German writer (1895β1998)
11,455
views
views
78
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875β1934)
11,079
views
views
79
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915β2017)
11,079
views
views
80
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818β1865)
10,952
views
views
81
Jack Hanna
American zoologist
10,504
views
views
82
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
10,488
views
views
83
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
10,312
views
views
84
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
9,898
views
views
85
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904β1990)
9,676
views
views
86
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
9,648
views
views
87
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
9,602
views
views
88
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933β2015)
9,599
views
views
89
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
9,404
views
views
90
Eugene Sledge
United States Marine (1923-2001)
9,356
views
views
91
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946β2000)
9,260
views
views
92
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
9,060
views
views
93
Matthew C. Perry
American naval officer (1794β1858)
9,048
views
views
94
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950β1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
8,995
views
views
95
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
8,953
views
views
96
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
8,919
views
views
97
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914β2009)
8,766
views
views
98
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944β2019)
8,748
views
views
99
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Ethiopian and politician, Director-General of the World Health Organization
8,481
views
views
100
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher (b. 1957)
8,391
views
views
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