Trending Geologists — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed geologists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Richard E. Grant. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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542,015
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
64,082
views
views
2
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
49,689
views
views
3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
38,383
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
38,151
views
views
5
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
28,482
views
views
6
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
21,334
views
views
7
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
16,948
views
views
8
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
16,787
views
views
9
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
15,441
views
views
10
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
12,016
views
views
11
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
8,129
views
views
12
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,796
views
views
13
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
7,767
views
views
14
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
7,002
views
views
15
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
6,650
views
views
16
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
6,351
views
views
17
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
5,808
views
views
18
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman, 42nd governor of Colorado, and U.S. senator (born 1952)
5,721
views
views
19
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
5,629
views
views
20
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
5,360
views
views
21
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
5,239
views
views
22
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
4,978
views
views
23
Ivan Yefremov
Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
4,499
views
views
24
Manuel Hobiger
4,420
views
views
25
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,197
views
views
26
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
3,840
views
views
27
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
3,832
views
views
28
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
3,569
views
views
29
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
3,569
views
views
30
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
3,565
views
views
31
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
3,560
views
views
32
Alexander Belyavsky
Soviet and Russian actor (1932-2012)
3,483
views
views
33
Wendela Horz
3,467
views
views
34
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
3,423
views
views
35
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
3,331
views
views
36
Alberto Angela
Italian paleontologist, science communicator, writer and journalist (born 1962)
3,234
views
views
37
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
3,106
views
views
38
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
3,077
views
views
39
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,816
views
views
40
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
2,803
views
views
41
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013 (born 1942)
2,733
views
views
42
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
2,706
views
views
43
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699–1782)
2,678
views
views
44
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
2,667
views
views
45
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,582
views
views
46
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
2,517
views
views
47
Jeremy Valeriote
Canadian Politician
2,517
views
views
48
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,485
views
views
49
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938–2012)
2,386
views
views
50
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
2,375
views
views
51
James Rollins
American writer (born 1961)
2,255
views
views
52
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
2,248
views
views
53
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
2,078
views
views
54
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
2,062
views
views
55
Stefano Lo Russo
Italian politician (born 1975)
2,032
views
views
56
Andrew Weaver
Canadian scientist and politician
1,991
views
views
57
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
1,882
views
views
58
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
1,870
views
views
59
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,837
views
views
60
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
1,829
views
views
61
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
(1763-1838) Brazilian politician
1,721
views
views
62
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
1,698
views
views
63
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
1,685
views
views
64
Jan Smit
Dutch paleontologist (born 1948)
1,618
views
views
65
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
1,612
views
views
66
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
1,593
views
views
67
Heinrich Dathe
German ornithologist and zoologist (1910–1991)
1,584
views
views
68
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
1,577
views
views
69
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
1,559
views
views
70
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
1,555
views
views
71
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
1,523
views
views
72
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
1,501
views
views
73
Barry Voight
American geologist
1,496
views
views
74
Madelaine Böhme
German palaeontologist
1,430
views
views
75
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
1,427
views
views
76
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
1,414
views
views
77
Quintino Sella
Italian statesman and financier (1827-1884)
1,407
views
views
78
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)
1,387
views
views
79
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
1,379
views
views
80
Haroun Tazieff
French volcanologist, geologist (1914-1998)
1,368
views
views
81
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803)
1,344
views
views
82
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Russian noble (1817-1852)
1,335
views
views
83
Jacob Petrus
Spanish geographer, climatologist and science communicator
1,296
views
views
84
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
1,292
views
views
85
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
1,279
views
views
86
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician (1877–1947)
1,249
views
views
87
Jane Francis
British paleoclimatologist
1,242
views
views
88
Euclides da Cunha
Brazilian writer (1866–1909)
1,226
views
views
89
Emilio Comici
Italian mountaineer (1901–1940)
1,225
views
views
90
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Argentine journalist and cartoonist (1919–1978)
1,211
views
views
91
James Smithson
British chemist
1,201
views
views
92
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897)
1,177
views
views
93
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875)
1,173
views
views
94
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
1,162
views
views
95
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,157
views
views
96
Marie Tharp
American oceanographer and cartographer (1920–2006)
1,150
views
views
97
Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist and explorer (1858–1895)
1,132
views
views
98
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)
1,129
views
views
99
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
1,122
views
views
100
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
1,115
views
views