Trending Physicists of all time
The 100 most-viewed physicists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
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891,052
Total Views (of all time)
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
70,327
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
37,159
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
33,816
views
views
4
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
33,288
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
31,264
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
30,837
views
views
7
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
27,628
views
views
8
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
22,555
views
views
9
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
22,017
views
views
10
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
21,778
views
views
11
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
20,701
views
views
12
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
20,127
views
views
13
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
18,730
views
views
14
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
17,544
views
views
15
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
15,583
views
views
16
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
14,460
views
views
17
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
14,257
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
13,065
views
views
19
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
11,962
views
views
20
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
11,643
views
views
21
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
11,587
views
views
22
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
11,327
views
views
23
Daniel Swarovski
Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862β1956)
11,305
views
views
24
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
10,378
views
views
25
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,160
views
views
26
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
10,033
views
views
27
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
9,352
views
views
28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
8,952
views
views
29
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
8,623
views
views
30
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
8,564
views
views
31
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
7,588
views
views
32
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
7,266
views
views
33
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
7,109
views
views
34
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
7,050
views
views
35
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
7,023
views
views
36
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
6,662
views
views
37
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
6,610
views
views
38
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
6,582
views
views
39
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
6,550
views
views
40
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
6,412
views
views
41
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
6,404
views
views
42
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
6,194
views
views
43
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
6,017
views
views
44
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
5,722
views
views
45
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
5,623
views
views
46
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
5,579
views
views
47
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
5,339
views
views
48
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
5,258
views
views
49
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
5,153
views
views
50
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
5,098
views
views
51
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
5,085
views
views
52
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
4,994
views
views
53
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
4,901
views
views
54
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
4,875
views
views
55
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
4,815
views
views
56
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
4,786
views
views
57
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
4,738
views
views
58
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
4,608
views
views
59
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
4,374
views
views
60
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
4,332
views
views
61
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
4,327
views
views
62
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
4,234
views
views
63
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
4,144
views
views
64
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
4,084
views
views
65
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
4,000
views
views
66
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287β1347)
3,890
views
views
67
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
3,828
views
views
68
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
3,717
views
views
69
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
3,682
views
views
70
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,653
views
views
71
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
3,622
views
views
72
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
3,527
views
views
73
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
3,414
views
views
74
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,409
views
views
75
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
3,373
views
views
76
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
3,264
views
views
77
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
3,192
views
views
78
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
3,171
views
views
79
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
3,141
views
views
80
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923β2020)
3,129
views
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
3,099
views
views
82
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
3,037
views
views
83
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
3,026
views
views
84
JesΓΊs Maria Tarriba
First Gentleman of Mexico
2,972
views
views
85
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858β1937)
2,950
views
views
86
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
2,914
views
views
87
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
2,895
views
views
88
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 β c. 1040)
2,878
views
views
89
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
2,876
views
views
90
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
2,829
views
views
91
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
2,769
views
views
92
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632β1723)
2,762
views
views
93
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
2,735
views
views
94
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
2,732
views
views
95
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
2,715
views
views
96
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921β1945)
2,692
views
views
97
Bernhard Caesar Einstein
American physicist (1930-2008)
2,669
views
views
98
StanisΕaw Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
2,667
views
views
99
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
2,666
views
views
100
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
2,599
views
views
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