Trending Geologists this year
The 100 most-viewed geologists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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Ranked
609,063
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
88,811
views
views
2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
44,020
views
views
3
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
39,525
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
38,013
views
views
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
23,215
views
views
6
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
19,927
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
15,817
views
views
8
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
14,369
views
views
9
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
14,225
views
views
10
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
12,360
views
views
11
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
12,249
views
views
12
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
11,816
views
views
13
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
11,779
views
views
14
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
10,488
views
views
15
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
9,404
views
views
16
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
8,919
views
views
17
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,829
views
views
18
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
7,302
views
views
19
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
6,862
views
views
20
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
6,087
views
views
21
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
5,908
views
views
22
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
5,680
views
views
23
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
5,615
views
views
24
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
5,579
views
views
25
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
5,472
views
views
26
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
5,025
views
views
27
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
4,337
views
views
28
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
4,302
views
views
29
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
4,238
views
views
30
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
4,214
views
views
31
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
4,055
views
views
32
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
4,048
views
views
33
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
4,010
views
views
34
Humphry Davy
British chemist
3,849
views
views
35
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
3,815
views
views
36
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,719
views
views
37
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,668
views
views
38
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
3,645
views
views
39
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
3,609
views
views
40
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
3,519
views
views
41
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
3,437
views
views
42
Barry Voight
American geologist
3,166
views
views
43
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
3,041
views
views
44
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
3,032
views
views
45
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
2,994
views
views
46
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
2,928
views
views
47
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
2,865
views
views
48
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,853
views
views
49
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
2,845
views
views
50
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
2,825
views
views
51
William Smith
English geologist
2,804
views
views
52
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
2,652
views
views
53
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,630
views
views
54
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
2,598
views
views
55
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
2,500
views
views
56
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
2,391
views
views
57
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
2,326
views
views
58
James Smithson
British chemist
2,274
views
views
59
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
2,257
views
views
60
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
2,241
views
views
61
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
2,235
views
views
62
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
2,218
views
views
63
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
2,182
views
views
64
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
1,983
views
views
65
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
1,978
views
views
66
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
1,964
views
views
67
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
1,946
views
views
68
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
1,894
views
views
69
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
1,891
views
views
70
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
1,864
views
views
71
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
1,831
views
views
72
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
1,816
views
views
73
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
1,737
views
views
74
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,692
views
views
75
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
1,643
views
views
76
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
1,635
views
views
77
Ian Plimer
Australian geologist
1,587
views
views
78
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1,585
views
views
79
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,556
views
views
80
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
1,556
views
views
81
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
1,503
views
views
82
Manuel Hobiger
1,488
views
views
83
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
1,469
views
views
84
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
1,436
views
views
85
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
1,382
views
views
86
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
1,371
views
views
87
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
1,351
views
views
88
JosΓ© Bonaparte
Argentine paleontologist (1928β2020)
1,333
views
views
89
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,323
views
views
90
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
1,305
views
views
91
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
1,302
views
views
92
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819β1888)
1,264
views
views
93
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,263
views
views
94
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
1,249
views
views
95
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,242
views
views
96
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,228
views
views
97
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
1,201
views
views
98
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
1,201
views
views
99
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
1,194
views
views
100
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
1,182
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views
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