Trending Geologists — all time
The 100 most-viewed geologists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Richard E. Grant. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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2,538,197
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
879,964
views
views
2
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
141,639
views
views
3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
129,797
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
115,253
views
views
5
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
97,270
views
views
6
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
60,305
views
views
7
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
58,970
views
views
8
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
57,629
views
views
9
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
47,373
views
views
10
George Ulrich
American geologist and volcanologist
42,899
views
views
11
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
38,609
views
views
12
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
32,589
views
views
13
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
29,520
views
views
14
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
26,849
views
views
15
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
26,405
views
views
16
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
25,455
views
views
17
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
22,188
views
views
18
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
21,767
views
views
19
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
18,781
views
views
20
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
18,581
views
views
21
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
18,286
views
views
22
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
17,352
views
views
23
Ivan Yefremov
Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
17,214
views
views
24
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
16,273
views
views
25
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
15,708
views
views
26
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
14,675
views
views
27
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman, 42nd governor of Colorado, and U.S. senator (born 1952)
14,179
views
views
28
Manuel Hobiger
13,533
views
views
29
Herbert Tichy
Austrian mountain climber (1912–1987)
13,511
views
views
30
Judith Curry
American climatologist
13,349
views
views
31
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
12,220
views
views
32
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
11,996
views
views
33
Mireille Christophe Michel-Lévy
French geologist and mineralogist
11,962
views
views
34
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
11,160
views
views
35
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
10,607
views
views
36
Alberto Angela
Italian paleontologist, science communicator, writer and journalist (born 1962)
10,483
views
views
37
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
10,278
views
views
38
Humphry Davy
British chemist
10,237
views
views
39
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
10,196
views
views
40
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
10,191
views
views
41
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
9,864
views
views
42
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
9,288
views
views
43
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
9,257
views
views
44
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
9,186
views
views
45
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
9,178
views
views
46
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
9,137
views
views
47
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
9,075
views
views
48
Jan Smit
Dutch paleontologist (born 1948)
9,018
views
views
49
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
8,816
views
views
50
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013 (born 1942)
8,796
views
views
51
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699–1782)
8,746
views
views
52
Alexander Belyavsky
Soviet and Russian actor (1932-2012)
8,629
views
views
53
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
8,593
views
views
54
Wendela Horz
8,590
views
views
55
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
8,409
views
views
56
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
8,120
views
views
57
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
8,020
views
views
58
James Rollins
American writer (born 1961)
7,949
views
views
59
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
7,833
views
views
60
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
7,782
views
views
61
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
7,770
views
views
62
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)
7,422
views
views
63
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
7,209
views
views
64
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938–2012)
6,816
views
views
65
Stefano Lo Russo
Italian politician (born 1975)
6,780
views
views
66
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
(1763-1838) Brazilian politician
6,365
views
views
67
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
6,306
views
views
68
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
6,248
views
views
69
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
6,139
views
views
70
Gerta Keller
American geologist and paleontologist
6,066
views
views
71
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
5,951
views
views
72
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
5,949
views
views
73
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
5,845
views
views
74
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
5,674
views
views
75
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
5,644
views
views
76
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
5,627
views
views
77
Sergey Kurginyan
Russian scientist
5,459
views
views
78
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
5,206
views
views
79
Barry Voight
American geologist
4,959
views
views
80
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
4,864
views
views
81
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Russian noble (1817-1852)
4,793
views
views
82
James Smithson
British chemist
4,724
views
views
83
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
4,607
views
views
84
Jacob Petrus
Spanish geographer, climatologist and science communicator
4,524
views
views
85
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
4,504
views
views
86
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
4,464
views
views
87
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
4,412
views
views
88
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
4,392
views
views
89
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
4,367
views
views
90
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875)
4,330
views
views
91
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Argentine journalist and cartoonist (1919–1978)
4,249
views
views
92
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
4,184
views
views
93
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
4,181
views
views
94
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
4,167
views
views
95
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
4,154
views
views
96
Jeremy Valeriote
Canadian Politician
4,143
views
views
97
Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
4,073
views
views
98
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803)
4,058
views
views
99
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897)
4,017
views
views
100
Marie Tharp
American oceanographer and cartographer (1920–2006)
4,016
views
views