Trending Physicists — all time
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: J. Robert Oppenheimer. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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6,643,555
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
343,551
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
324,899
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
278,331
views
views
4
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
268,914
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
228,246
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
225,327
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
210,370
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
182,367
views
views
9
Cleo
pseudonym of an mathematician
154,792
views
views
10
Peter Hegemann
German biophysicist
152,506
views
views
11
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
150,508
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
134,303
views
views
13
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
128,920
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
128,673
views
views
15
Georg Nagel
German biophysicist, botanist und university professor
126,944
views
views
16
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
109,079
views
views
17
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
106,822
views
views
18
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
103,479
views
views
19
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
94,502
views
views
20
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
93,801
views
views
21
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
86,418
views
views
22
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
85,455
views
views
23
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
84,469
views
views
24
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
81,875
views
views
25
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
79,999
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
73,646
views
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
70,823
views
views
28
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
70,018
views
views
29
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
68,123
views
views
30
Mary Archer
British chemist (born 1944)
64,074
views
views
31
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
63,290
views
views
32
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
59,689
views
views
33
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
59,008
views
views
34
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
54,655
views
views
35
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
53,757
views
views
36
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
53,520
views
views
37
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
47,730
views
views
38
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
47,373
views
views
39
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
47,309
views
views
40
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
47,136
views
views
41
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
47,032
views
views
42
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
46,252
views
views
43
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
44,631
views
views
44
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
44,174
views
views
45
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
43,965
views
views
46
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
43,439
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
43,415
views
views
48
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
42,200
views
views
49
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
41,643
views
views
50
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
41,520
views
views
51
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
40,501
views
views
52
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
53
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
39,685
views
views
54
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
39,595
views
views
55
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
39,370
views
views
56
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
38,609
views
views
57
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
37,896
views
views
58
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
36,632
views
views
59
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
34,514
views
views
60
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
34,243
views
views
61
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
32,863
views
views
62
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
31,385
views
views
63
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
31,317
views
views
64
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
31,305
views
views
65
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
29,900
views
views
66
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
29,682
views
views
67
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
29,520
views
views
68
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
29,300
views
views
69
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
28,108
views
views
70
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
28,062
views
views
71
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
27,781
views
views
72
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
27,334
views
views
73
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
27,119
views
views
74
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
27,113
views
views
75
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
26,405
views
views
76
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
25,830
views
views
77
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
25,295
views
views
78
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
24,866
views
views
79
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
24,128
views
views
80
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
23,874
views
views
81
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
23,772
views
views
82
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
23,175
views
views
83
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
22,961
views
views
84
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
22,535
views
views
85
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
22,451
views
views
86
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
22,412
views
views
87
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
22,259
views
views
88
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
22,193
views
views
89
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
21,357
views
views
90
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
21,316
views
views
91
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
20,729
views
views
92
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
20,572
views
views
93
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
20,101
views
views
94
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
19,766
views
views
95
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
19,702
views
views
96
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
19,142
views
views
97
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
18,942
views
views
98
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
18,802
views
views
99
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
18,178
views
views
100
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
18,131
views
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