Trending Mathematicians — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed mathematicians on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ted Kaczynski. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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16,951,520
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Ted Kaczynski
American mathematician and domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
3,236,260
views
views
2
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
1,335,568
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
718,682
views
views
4
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
583,604
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
485,128
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
449,063
views
views
7
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
414,947
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
378,730
views
views
9
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
365,100
views
views
10
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
357,849
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
250,334
views
views
12
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
245,442
views
views
13
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
229,276
views
views
14
Daniel Lewin
American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur
217,304
views
views
15
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
214,581
views
views
16
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
206,931
views
views
17
Ethel May Collins
English supercentenarian (born 1909)
199,188
views
views
18
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
190,487
views
views
19
Ilya Sutskever
Canadian-Israeli AI researcher
185,459
views
views
20
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
175,664
views
views
21
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
173,913
views
views
22
Ben Delo
British mathematician and programmer
171,678
views
views
23
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
171,038
views
views
24
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
166,753
views
views
25
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
159,663
views
views
26
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
158,551
views
views
27
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
155,293
views
views
28
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
148,205
views
views
29
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
144,832
views
views
30
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
140,353
views
views
31
Hannah Fry
British mathematician and TV presenter (1984-)
136,491
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
131,604
views
views
33
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
129,762
views
views
34
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
126,771
views
views
35
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
125,143
views
views
36
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
123,529
views
views
37
Danica McKellar
American actress and writer
118,455
views
views
38
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
117,957
views
views
39
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
109,173
views
views
40
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
101,297
views
views
41
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
94,996
views
views
42
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
94,450
views
views
43
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
94,016
views
views
44
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
90,365
views
views
45
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
89,969
views
views
46
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
89,854
views
views
47
Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
89,437
views
views
48
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
88,036
views
views
49
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
86,315
views
views
50
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
84,812
views
views
51
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
83,782
views
views
52
Professor Moriarty
fictional character from Sherlock Holmes
83,756
views
views
53
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
80,172
views
views
54
Johan de Witt
Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)
75,426
views
views
55
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
74,908
views
views
56
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
74,591
views
views
57
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
69,411
views
views
58
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
68,812
views
views
59
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)
68,255
views
views
60
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
67,630
views
views
61
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
67,270
views
views
62
Euclid
ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
66,956
views
views
63
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
66,007
views
views
64
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
65,339
views
views
65
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
63,673
views
views
66
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
63,044
views
views
67
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
63,015
views
views
68
Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
61,236
views
views
69
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
58,814
views
views
70
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
58,526
views
views
71
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
58,248
views
views
72
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
55,634
views
views
73
Manuel Bompard
French politician (born 1986)
54,923
views
views
74
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
53,326
views
views
75
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
53,325
views
views
76
Democritus
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
53,226
views
views
77
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
52,599
views
views
78
Joan Clarke
English cryptanalyst
51,446
views
views
79
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
50,593
views
views
80
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
48,243
views
views
81
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
47,977
views
views
82
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
47,747
views
views
83
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)
47,464
views
views
84
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
47,311
views
views
85
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
47,157
views
views
86
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
46,767
views
views
87
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
46,159
views
views
88
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
46,022
views
views
89
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Hong Wang
Chinese mathematician (1991–)
45,888
views
views
90
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
45,806
views
views
91
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
44,265
views
views
92
Nicușor Dan
President of Romania since 2025
43,892
views
views
93
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
42,785
views
views
94
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
42,192
views
views
95
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
41,587
views
views
96
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
41,508
views
views
97
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
41,364
views
views
98
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
40,787
views
views
99
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
40,468
views
views
100
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
39,880
views
views