Trending Physicians — all time
The 99 most-viewed physicians on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Nidal Hasan. Data as of 24 October 2026.
- Source
- Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
- Window
- all time · Data as of 24 October 2026
- Showing
- 99 physicians — drawn from 12,192,386 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
Where this data comes from ›99
Ranked
9,645,796
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Nidal Hasan
American Army officer and mass murderer (born 1970)
2,832,781
views
views
2
Karl Deisseroth
American optogeneticist
486,321
views
views
3
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
430,188
views
views
4
Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Russian psychotherapist, hypnotist and a controversial psychic healer
420,733
views
views
5
Augusto Cury
Brazilian writer and psychiatrist
244,425
views
views
6
Zack Polanski
British politician (born 1982)
220,725
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
210,370
views
views
8
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
161,536
views
views
9
Michelle Monje
American neurologist and researcher
148,663
views
views
10
Ronaldo Caiado
traumatologist, orthopedist, Brazilian politician and 79th governor of Goiás (2019–2026) and Federal Deputy (1991–1995; 1999–2015)
128,902
views
views
11
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
128,507
views
views
12
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
107,154
views
views
13
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission since 2019
103,178
views
views
14
Geraldo Alckmin
Brazilian politician, 56th and 60th governor of São Paulo (2001-2006, 2011-2018) and 26th Vice President of Brazil since 2023
102,324
views
views
15
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
100,150
views
views
16
Hannibal Lecter
fictional character created by Thomas Harris
98,738
views
views
17
Bashar al-Assad
Syrian convicted fugitive and former President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
91,400
views
views
18
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
79,999
views
views
19
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
78,043
views
views
20
Priscilla Chan
American pediatrician and philanthropist
74,480
views
views
21
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
73,031
views
views
22
H. H. Holmes
American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)
72,737
views
views
23
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
70,018
views
views
24
Andy Harris
U.S. Representative from Maryland
68,059
views
views
25
.jpg/960px-Amy_Acton_(cropped).jpg)
Amy Acton
American physician (born 1966)
66,837
views
views
26
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
65,707
views
views
27
Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912–1958)
64,845
views
views
28
Freida McFadden
American thriller author and practicing physician
64,418
views
views
29
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908–1973
62,814
views
views
30
Doc Holliday
gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
60,637
views
views
31
Ken Jeong
South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
58,660
views
views
32
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
57,816
views
views
33
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
55,493
views
views
34
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
55,000
views
views
35
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist (1962-)
54,048
views
views
36
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
53,729
views
views
37
Harold Shipman
English doctor and serial killer (1947-2004)
53,674
views
views
38
Graham Chapman
English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)
53,251
views
views
39
Jean Tatlock
American activist (1914-1944)
52,770
views
views
40
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
52,597
views
views
41
Christiana Morgan
American psychoanalyst
51,878
views
views
42
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
49,483
views
views
43
Jean-Paul Marat
politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
47,560
views
views
44
Vasanth Ravi
Indian actor
47,393
views
views
45
Aishwarya Lekshmi
Indian actress
47,292
views
views
46
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
47,263
views
views
47
Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
46,122
views
views
48
Andrea Kdolsky
Austrian physician and politician
45,979
views
views
49
Harley Quinn
fictional character in DC Comics
45,632
views
views
50
Luke the Evangelist
one of the four evangelists
45,412
views
views
51
Annie L. Andrews
American pediatrician and political activist
45,279
views
views
52
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
43,670
views
views
53
Ayman al-Zawahiri
al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon
43,409
views
views
54
Michael Kotlikoff
American veterinarian and academic
43,408
views
views
55
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
43,095
views
views
56
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
43,072
views
views
57
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
42,756
views
views
58
Roger Marshall
American politician
42,190
views
views
59
Michael Burry
American hedge fund manager
41,952
views
views
60
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
41,170
views
views
61
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
40,839
views
views
62
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
40,501
views
views
63
Gérard Larcher
French politician, President of the Senate of France
38,835
views
views
64
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
37,720
views
views
65
Masoud Pezeshkian
9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
37,442
views
views
66
Hippocrates
Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
36,703
views
views
67
Al Jardine
American musician
36,679
views
views
68
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
36,565
views
views
69
Jonny Kim
American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut
36,263
views
views
70
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
35,416
views
views
71
Mehmet Öz
Turkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
35,257
views
views
72
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
35,144
views
views
73
Radovan Karadžić
Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide
34,856
views
views
74
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
34,851
views
views
75
Samara Martins
dentist
34,493
views
views
76
Mikiya Takasu
Japanese Cosmetologist and YouTuber
34,481
views
views
77
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
34,436
views
views
78
Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
33,528
views
views
79
Katsuya Takasu
Plastic surgeon based in Tokyo
32,884
views
views
80
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
32,646
views
views
81
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
31,748
views
views
82
Jeremy Cumpston
Australian actor and doctor
31,690
views
views
83
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Turkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan (2006–2022)
31,539
views
views
84
Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
31,075
views
views
85
Eckhart Tolle
German spiritual teacher and author
31,003
views
views
86
Jacques Lacan
French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)
30,689
views
views
87
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
30,086
views
views
88
Lai Ching-te
President of Taiwan (ROC) since 2024
29,594
views
views
89
Alexander Myasnikov
Russian cardiologist and media personality
29,403
views
views
90
Abraham Van Helsing
fictional character from Bram Stoker's Dracula
28,644
views
views
91
David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
28,517
views
views
92
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
28,437
views
views
93
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
28,313
views
views
94
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
28,277
views
views
95
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali
spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
28,162
views
views
96
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
27,758
views
views
97
Miriam Stoppard
British journalist
27,550
views
views
98
Junji Itō
Japanese horror writer and mangaka
27,502
views
views
99
Conrad Murray
American physician (born 1953)
27,497
views
views