Trending Geologists this month
The 100 most-viewed geologists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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307,922
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
40,205
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views
2
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
24,168
views
views
3
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
23,071
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
16,663
views
views
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
12,427
views
views
6
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
9,862
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
8,492
views
views
8
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
7,590
views
views
9
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
7,558
views
views
10
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
6,650
views
views
11
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
6,151
views
views
12
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
6,138
views
views
13
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
5,452
views
views
14
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,465
views
views
15
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
4,288
views
views
16
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
4,210
views
views
17
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
4,150
views
views
18
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,683
views
views
19
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
3,549
views
views
20
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
3,520
views
views
21
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
3,308
views
views
22
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
3,265
views
views
23
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
3,225
views
views
24
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
3,124
views
views
25
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
2,755
views
views
26
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
2,718
views
views
27
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
2,566
views
views
28
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,258
views
views
29
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
2,175
views
views
30
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
2,161
views
views
31
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
2,149
views
views
32
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
2,140
views
views
33
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,096
views
views
34
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
2,049
views
views
35
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
1,969
views
views
36
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
1,937
views
views
37
Barry Voight
American geologist
1,886
views
views
38
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
1,639
views
views
39
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
1,638
views
views
40
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
1,605
views
views
41
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
1,604
views
views
42
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
1,573
views
views
43
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
1,544
views
views
44
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
1,527
views
views
45
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
1,511
views
views
46
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,507
views
views
47
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
1,492
views
views
48
James Smithson
British chemist
1,447
views
views
49
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,425
views
views
50
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
1,372
views
views
51
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
1,302
views
views
52
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
1,292
views
views
53
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
1,287
views
views
54
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
1,213
views
views
55
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
1,200
views
views
56
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
1,189
views
views
57
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,187
views
views
58
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
1,124
views
views
59
Judith Curry
American climatologist
1,122
views
views
60
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,095
views
views
61
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
1,094
views
views
62
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,089
views
views
63
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
1,083
views
views
64
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,071
views
views
65
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
1,062
views
views
66
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
1,062
views
views
67
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
1,033
views
views
68
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
1,019
views
views
69
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
994
views
views
70
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
909
views
views
71
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
895
views
views
72
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
888
views
views
73
Farouk Al-Kasim
Norwegian geologist
884
views
views
74
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
878
views
views
75
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
857
views
views
76
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
850
views
views
77
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
841
views
views
78
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
810
views
views
79
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
787
views
views
80
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
767
views
views
81
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
765
views
views
82
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
736
views
views
83
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
727
views
views
84
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
721
views
views
85
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
714
views
views
86
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
709
views
views
87
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
686
views
views
88
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
684
views
views
89
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
672
views
views
90
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher (1900β1970)
664
views
views
91
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
649
views
views
92
Dougal Dixon
British author
632
views
views
93
Michael E. Mann
American physicist and climatologist
608
views
views
94
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
606
views
views
95
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
604
views
views
96
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
594
views
views
97
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
592
views
views
98
Shiva Balak Misra
Indian geologist
573
views
views
99
Christopher Jackson
British geologist
573
views
views
100
William Barton Rogers
American scientist, founder of MIT (1804-1882)
572
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