Trending Chemists — all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Kensō Soai. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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Ranked
5,999,686
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Kensō Soai
Japanese organic chemist (1950– )
1,116,638
views
views
2
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
314,949
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
304,921
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
291,986
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
224,924
views
views
6
Henri B. Kagan
French chemist
224,601
views
views
7
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
198,269
views
views
8
Peter Hegemann
German biophysicist
154,824
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
139,219
views
views
10
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
130,501
views
views
11
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
128,749
views
views
12
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
119,751
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
91,132
views
views
14
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
84,469
views
views
15
Katherina Reiche
German politician
83,611
views
views
16
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
72,264
views
views
17
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
71,257
views
views
18
Mary Archer
British chemist (born 1944)
64,074
views
views
19
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
59,008
views
views
20
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
57,629
views
views
21
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
54,240
views
views
22
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
53,633
views
views
23
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
53,514
views
views
24
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
51,931
views
views
25
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
48,527
views
views
26
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
47,309
views
views
27
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
44,441
views
views
28
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
43,221
views
views
29
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
42,305
views
views
30
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
41,107
views
views
31
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
32
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
36,568
views
views
33
Peter Douglas
American film producer
35,940
views
views
34
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
33,343
views
views
35
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
32,646
views
views
36
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
32,589
views
views
37
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
32,550
views
views
38
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
31,912
views
views
39
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
31,566
views
views
40
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
31,385
views
views
41
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
30,954
views
views
42
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
30,895
views
views
43
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
30,318
views
views
44
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
29,900
views
views
45
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
29,766
views
views
46
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
29,520
views
views
47
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Japanese chemist (1927-2018)
29,442
views
views
48
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
29,394
views
views
49
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
29,300
views
views
50
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
28,887
views
views
51
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
28,684
views
views
52
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
28,201
views
views
53
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
28,139
views
views
54
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
26,456
views
views
55
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
26,405
views
views
56
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
26,368
views
views
57
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
24,767
views
views
58
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
24,625
views
views
59
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
24,612
views
views
60
Feng Zhang
Chinese-American synthetic biologist
23,861
views
views
61
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
23,590
views
views
62
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
22,637
views
views
63
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
22,612
views
views
64
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
22,466
views
views
65
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
22,412
views
views
66
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
22,231
views
views
67
Frauke Petry
German politician
21,546
views
views
68
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
20,609
views
views
69
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
20,430
views
views
70
David M. Sabatini
biologist who discovered mTOR
20,096
views
views
71
Sebastian Lege
German chef and TV personality
19,970
views
views
72
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
19,886
views
views
73
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
19,825
views
views
74
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
19,033
views
views
75
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
18,374
views
views
76
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
17,928
views
views
77
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
17,280
views
views
78
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
16,630
views
views
79
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
16,481
views
views
80
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
16,317
views
views
81
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
16,273
views
views
82
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,241
views
views
83
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
16,208
views
views
84
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
16,199
views
views
85
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
15,756
views
views
86
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
15,073
views
views
87
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
14,664
views
views
88
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
14,308
views
views
89
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
14,159
views
views
90
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
14,055
views
views
91
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
13,775
views
views
92
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
13,740
views
views
93
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
13,619
views
views
94
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
13,555
views
views
95
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
13,554
views
views
96
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
13,425
views
views
97
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
13,355
views
views
98
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
13,291
views
views
99
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,220
views
views
100
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
13,011
views
views
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