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Trending Physicists this year

The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.

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1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
81,734
views
2
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
51,438
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
49,442
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
49,016
views
5
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
45,077
views
6
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
40,999
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
40,880
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
40,746
views
9
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
36,417
views
10
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
35,948
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
33,641
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
33,595
views
13
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
28,901
views
14
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
27,003
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
25,025
views
16
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
23,538
views
17
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
23,529
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
23,281
views
19
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
23,259
views
20
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
20,447
views
21
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
19,924
views
22
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
19,711
views
23
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
18,013
views
24
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
17,865
views
25
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
17,475
views
26
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
16,699
views
27
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
15,756
views
28
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
15,434
views
29
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
15,078
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
15,051
views
31
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
14,097
views
32
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
14,015
views
33
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
13,958
views
34
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
13,007
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
12,526
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
12,375
views
37
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
12,314
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
11,020
views
39
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
10,408
views
40
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
10,190
views
41
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
10,188
views
42
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
9,781
views
43
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
9,601
views
44
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
9,487
views
45
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
9,204
views
46
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
8,981
views
47
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
8,816
views
48
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
8,551
views
49
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
8,521
views
50
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
8,490
views
51
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
7,921
views
52
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
7,542
views
53
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
7,406
views
54
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
7,354
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
7,313
views
56
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
7,270
views
57
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
6,984
views
58
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
6,592
views
59
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
6,482
views
60
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
6,421
views
61
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
6,406
views
62
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
6,345
views
63
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
6,301
views
64
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
6,258
views
65
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
6,193
views
66
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
6,089
views
67
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
5,981
views
68
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
5,646
views
69
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
5,634
views
70
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977–2025)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
5,622
views
71
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
5,573
views
72
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
5,541
views
73
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
5,448
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
5,394
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
5,306
views
76
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
5,286
views
77
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
5,174
views
78
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
5,116
views
79
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
5,026
views
80
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
4,949
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
4,831
views
82
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
4,785
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
4,657
views
84
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
4,597
views
85
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
4,530
views
86
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
4,482
views
87
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
4,393
views
88
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
4,388
views
89
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
4,333
views
90
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
4,324
views
91
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
4,314
views
92
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
4,299
views
93
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
4,277
views
94
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
4,270
views
95
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
4,157
views
96
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
4,075
views
97
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
4,072
views
98
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
4,046
views
99
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
3,964
views
100
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
3,954
views