Trending Physicians this year
The 100 most-viewed physicians this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Fauci.
100
Ranked
3,286,381
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
512,828
views
views
2
Graeme Garden
British actor and comedian
178,128
views
views
3
Rand Paul
United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
158,209
views
views
4
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928β1967)
116,384
views
views
5
Conrad Murray
American physician
88,405
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
75,458
views
views
7
Zack Polanski
British politician (born 1982)
68,487
views
views
8
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911β1979)
68,371
views
views
9
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE β 543 or 483 BCE)
61,610
views
views
10
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856β1939)
58,209
views
views
11
Ken Jeong
South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
54,609
views
views
12
Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912β1958)
49,051
views
views
13
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
47,369
views
views
14
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875β1961)
46,787
views
views
15
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist (1962-)
45,970
views
views
16
Harold Shipman
English doctor and serial killer (1947-2004)
40,849
views
views
17
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942β2008)
40,847
views
views
18
Doc Holliday
gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851β1887)
39,688
views
views
19
Ron Paul
American politician (born 1935)
39,052
views
views
20
Choi Dae-hoon
South Korean actor
37,630
views
views
21
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
34,531
views
views
22
Mehmet Γz
Turkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
34,092
views
views
23
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission since 2019
30,448
views
views
24
Freida McFadden
American thriller author and practicing physician
30,421
views
views
25
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866β1925)
29,938
views
views
26
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859β1930)
29,768
views
views
27
H. H. Holmes
American con artist and serial killer (1861β1896)
28,930
views
views
28
Hannibal Lecter
fictional character created by Thomas Harris
28,528
views
views
29
Masoud Pezeshkian
9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
28,196
views
views
30
Michael Burry
American hedge fund manager
26,527
views
views
31
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945β2026)
25,016
views
views
32
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503β1566)
24,960
views
views
33
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
24,069
views
views
34
Graham Chapman
English actor, comedian and writer (1941β1989)
23,601
views
views
35
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
23,451
views
views
36
Aishwarya Lekshmi
Indian actress
23,380
views
views
37
Christopher Duntsch
American neurosurgeon and convicted criminal for malpractice
22,963
views
views
38
Deborah L. Birx
American physician and diplomat
21,362
views
views
39
SΓ³crates
Brazilian association football player (1954β2011)
20,655
views
views
40
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908β1973
20,401
views
views
41
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098β1179)
20,223
views
views
42
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860β1904)
20,155
views
views
43
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
19,927
views
views
44
Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody
Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker
19,651
views
views
45
Miriam Adelson
American-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born in 1945)
19,305
views
views
46
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
19,125
views
views
47
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905β1997)
18,857
views
views
48
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
18,702
views
views
49
Judy Lewis
American actress (1935-2011)
18,254
views
views
50
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
18,153
views
views
51
Sandra Lee
American dermatologist and YouTuber
17,595
views
views
52
Priscilla Chan
American pediatrician and philanthropist
17,561
views
views
53
Ayman al-Zawahiri
al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951β2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon
17,547
views
views
54
Jean Tatlock
American activist (1914-1944)
17,519
views
views
55
Mary L. Trump
American psychologist and writer (born 1965)
17,483
views
views
56
Jack Kevorkian
American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
17,404
views
views
57
Paolo Macchiarini
Italian surgeon
17,266
views
views
58
Gabor MatΓ©
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944β)
17,240
views
views
59
Nina Hartley
American pornographic actress (born 1959)
17,138
views
views
60
Lai Ching-te
16th President of Taiwan (ROC) since 2024
17,118
views
views
61
Drew Pinsky
American radio and television personality, physician, addiction medicine specialist
16,888
views
views
62
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Amy Acton
American physician (born 1966)
16,764
views
views
63
Harley Quinn
fictional character in DC Comics
16,478
views
views
64
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925β1961)
16,107
views
views
65
Catherine Connolly
President of Ireland since 2025 (born 1955)
16,031
views
views
66
John Carter
fictional character from the television series ER
15,538
views
views
67
Jonny Kim
American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut
15,538
views
views
68
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
15,389
views
views
69
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
15,273
views
views
70
Luka KovaΔ
Fictional physician on television show ER
15,168
views
views
71
Younan Nowzaradan
doctor famous for operating on morbidly obese patients
15,082
views
views
72
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,881
views
views
73
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
14,721
views
views
74
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928β1989)
14,510
views
views
75
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,348
views
views
76
Bill Cassidy
American physician and politician (born 1957)
14,306
views
views
77
ShirΕ Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese
14,263
views
views
78
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020
14,007
views
views
79
Ronny Jackson
American physician, politician, and naval officer (born 1967)
13,949
views
views
80
George Miller
Australian filmmaker (born 1945)
13,927
views
views
81
Louise Brown
first in-vitro baby
13,918
views
views
82
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
13,818
views
views
83
Doctor Mike
RussianβAmerican celebrity doctor (born 1989)
13,660
views
views
84
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
13,627
views
views
85
George Hill Hodel
US physician, suspected murderer
13,519
views
views
86
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Turkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan (2006β2022)
13,359
views
views
87
James Barry
19th-century military surgeon in the British Army
13,243
views
views
88
Patch Adams
American physician, activist, diplomat and author
13,120
views
views
89
John Keats
English Romantic poet (1795β1821)
13,094
views
views
90
Al Jardine
American musician
13,043
views
views
91
Tomoko Keida
12,720
views
views
92
John Money
New Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist (1921β2006)
12,617
views
views
93
Baruch Goldstein
American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
12,428
views
views
94
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
12,413
views
views
95
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135β1204)
12,288
views
views
96
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868β1935)
12,243
views
views
97
Junji ItΕ
Japanese horror writer and mangaka
12,207
views
views
98
David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
12,171
views
views
99
François Duvalier
40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
12,168
views
views
100
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914β1995)
12,156
views
views
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