Trending Mathematicians — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed mathematicians on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ted Kaczynski. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
12,791,101
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
2,910,435
views
views
2
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
1,142,128
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
489,763
views
views
4
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
355,973
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
339,042
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
7
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
279,364
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
272,169
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
226,760
views
views
11
Daniel Lewin
American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur
205,858
views
views
12
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
193,750
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
173,020
views
views
15
Ben Delo
British mathematician and programmer
170,472
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
158,853
views
views
17
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
141,743
views
views
18
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
134,342
views
views
19
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
131,711
views
views
20
Ilya Sutskever
Canadian-Israeli AI researcher
130,128
views
views
21
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
125,705
views
views
22
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
121,828
views
views
23
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
121,404
views
views
24
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
119,206
views
views
25
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
116,564
views
views
26
Ethel May Collins
English supercentenarian (born 1909)
111,714
views
views
27
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
101,761
views
views
28
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
98,278
views
views
29
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
96,511
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
31
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
94,035
views
views
32
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
93,541
views
views
33
Hannah Fry
British mathematician and TV presenter (1984-)
86,749
views
views
34
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
84,711
views
views
35
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
83,484
views
views
36
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
79,806
views
views
37
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
78,750
views
views
38
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
76,382
views
views
39
Danica McKellar
American actress and writer
74,924
views
views
40
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
70,629
views
views
41
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
69,778
views
views
42
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
69,196
views
views
43
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
66,871
views
views
44
Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
66,501
views
views
45
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
65,557
views
views
46
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
65,474
views
views
47
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
65,449
views
views
48
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
63,006
views
views
49
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
62,630
views
views
50
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
59,700
views
views
51
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
56,601
views
views
52
Johan de Witt
Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)
56,240
views
views
53
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
53,930
views
views
54
Professor Moriarty
fictional character from Sherlock Holmes
53,379
views
views
55
Manuel Bompard
French politician (born 1986)
52,510
views
views
56
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
50,863
views
views
57
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
50,159
views
views
58
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
49,976
views
views
59
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
49,736
views
views
60
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
49,275
views
views
61
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
49,135
views
views
62
Euclid
ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
47,985
views
views
63
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
45,949
views
views
64
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
45,009
views
views
65
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
43,947
views
views
66
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
43,082
views
views
67
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
42,882
views
views
68
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
42,863
views
views
69
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
42,830
views
views
70
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
42,813
views
views
71
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
42,562
views
views
72
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
42,446
views
views
73
Democritus
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
40,508
views
views
74
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
40,174
views
views
75
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
39,805
views
views
76
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
37,299
views
views
77
Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
37,283
views
views
78
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
36,872
views
views
79
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
36,443
views
views
80
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
35,945
views
views
81
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
35,913
views
views
82
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
34,557
views
views
83
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
34,404
views
views
84
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
32,857
views
views
85
Joan Clarke
English cryptanalyst
32,799
views
views
86
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
32,782
views
views
87
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
32,662
views
views
88
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
32,544
views
views
89
Nicușor Dan
President of Romania since 2025
30,137
views
views
90
Richard S. Hamilton
American mathematician (1943–2024)
30,125
views
views
91
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
29,932
views
views
92
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
29,426
views
views
93
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
29,383
views
views
94
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
28,817
views
views
95
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
28,193
views
views
96
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
28,145
views
views
97
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
27,773
views
views
98
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
27,764
views
views
99
Évariste Galois
French mathematician (1811-1832)
27,682
views
views
100
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
27,645
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