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Trending Geologists in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026

The 100 most-viewed geologists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Data as of 26 October 2026.

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98,774
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1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
📚 75 citations
9,357
views
2
Yukio Hayakawa
Japanese geologist
7,788
views
3
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
📚 81 citations
6,593
views
4
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
📚 56 citations 📰 60 stories · 18 sources
4,752
views
5
William Smith Clark
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
📚 9 citations
4,681
views
6
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
📚 61 citations
3,874
views
7
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
📚 44 citations
3,677
views
8
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
📚 54 citations
3,335
views
9
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013 (born 1942)
📚 9 citations
3,013
views
10
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
Japanese paleontologist (1971-)
2,957
views
11
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
📚 41 citations 📰 4 stories · 3 sources
2,706
views
12
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
📚 21 citations
2,541
views
13
David A. Johnston
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
📚 4 citations
1,348
views
14
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
📚 26 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources
1,266
views
15
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
📚 76 citations
1,255
views
16
Aikitu Tanakadate
Aikitu Tanakadate
Japanese physicist
📚 5 citations
1,229
views
17
Mary Anning
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
📚 23 citations
1,194
views
18
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
📚 70 citations
1,089
views
19
Katsura Ōyama
Japanese Paleontologist and Malacologist
1,066
views
20
Edmund Naumann
German geo scientist (1854–1927)
📚 5 citations
991
views
21
Katsuko Saruhashi
Katsuko Saruhashi
Japanese geochemist (1920–2007)
📚 5 citations
984
views
22
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
📚 1 citation
981
views
23
Harry Glicken
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
📚 7 citations
958
views
24
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
📚 28 citations
918
views
25
Shin Fukushima
Japanese scientist
📚 1 citation
884
views
26
Wladimir Köppen
Wladimir Köppen
German meteorologist (1846–1940)
📚 11 citations
869
views
27
Tadashi Suzuki
Japanese paleontologist
837
views
28
William Calley
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
📚 8 citations
788
views
29
Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Japanese paleontologist
752
views
30
Makoto Manabe
Japanese paleontologist
747
views
31
Sven Hedin
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
📚 47 citations
731
views
32
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
📚 40 citations
652
views
33
Hatsutarō Ishihara
Japanese geologist (1870-1931)
637
views
34
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
📚 18 citations
612
views
35
Masao Mimatsu
volcanologist (1888–1977)
601
views
36
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
📚 36 citations
556
views
37
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
📚 29 citations
554
views
38
Fusakichi Ōmori
Japanese seismologist (1868–1923)
📚 5 citations
548
views
39
Takuji Ogawa
Japanese teacher and geologist (1870-1941)
544
views
40
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
📚 34 citations
536
views
41
William Lawrence Bragg
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
📚 34 citations
531
views
42
Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy
British chemist
📚 35 citations
530
views
43
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
📚 38 citations
518
views
44
Nobuo Naora
Japanese archaeologist (1902–1985)
458
views
45
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
📚 35 citations
456
views
46
Kazuo Oike
Japanese seismologist
437
views
47
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
📚 31 citations
418
views
48
Takuya Konishi
paleontologist
414
views
49
Nusret Sancaklı
Turkish geophysicist (born 1954)
412
views
50
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
📚 40 citations
410
views
51
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
📚 28 citations
405
views
52
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
📚 69 citations
402
views
53
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
📚 29 citations
398
views
54
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
📚 38 citations
396
views
55
Akitsune Imamura
Japanese seismologist (1870–1948)
📚 8 citations
396
views
56
Ryosuke Motani
Japanese paleontologist
📰 28 stories · 14 sources
385
views
57
Satoko Ōki
Japanese seismologist
372
views
58
Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
📚 16 citations
361
views
59
John Muir
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
📚 30 citations
360
views
60
Risaburō Tayama
Japanese geologist
352
views
61
Yokoyama Matajirō
Japanese geologist and paleontologist
321
views
62
Minoru Senda
Japanese historian
319
views
63
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
📚 32 citations
318
views
64
Tamaki Sato
Japanese paleontologist
315
views
65
Erik Laxman
Erik Laxman
Finland Swedish explorer (1737-1796)
📚 15 citations
314
views
66
James Rollins
American writer (born 1961)
📚 18 citations
312
views
67
Fumio Tsunoda
Japanese engineer
309
views
68
Kiyoo Wadati
Kiyoo Wadati
Japanese seismologist
📚 5 citations
308
views
69
Gideon Mantell
Gideon Mantell
British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)
📚 18 citations
307
views
70
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
📚 44 citations
306
views
71
Takeshi Nagata
Japanese astronomer (1913-1991)
📚 10 citations
300
views
72
Shigenori Maruyama
Japanese geologist
299
views
73
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist (1857–1935)
📚 20 citations
297
views
74
Robert Geller
American seismologist working in Japan
296
views
75
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
📚 12 citations
295
views
76
Yasuhide Iwasaki
1936-
292
views
77
Hiroo Kanamori
Japanese seismologist
📚 10 citations
292
views
78
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
📚 35 citations
285
views
79
Kiyosuke Kawada
Japanese geologist (1900-1952)
284
views
80
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
📚 30 citations
280
views
81
Kohei Tanaka
researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4721-6418)
279
views
82
Chonosuke Okamura
Japanese palaeontologist
273
views
83
Barry Voight
American geologist
📚 5 citations
271
views
84
Clair Cameron Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
📚 12 citations
268
views
85
Chūji Tsuboi
Japanese teacher (1902-1982)
265
views
86
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905)
📚 26 citations
263
views
87
Motonori Matuyama
Motonori Matuyama
Japanese geophysicist
📚 6 citations
258
views
88
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
📚 10 citations
258
views
89
Hisashi Nirei
Japanese geologist
255
views
90
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
📚 18 citations
242
views
91
K. Meguro
Japanese seismologist (1962-)
242
views
92
Tanakadate Hidezō
Japanese volcanologist
📚 4 citations
240
views
93
Masanobu Shishikura
Japanese seismologist
236
views
94
Henrik Svensmark
Danish physicist
📚 8 citations
235
views
95
Benjamin Smith Lyman
US mining engineer (1835-1920)
📚 12 citations
234
views
96
Kōshun Yamaoka
📚 5 citations
226
views
97
Yoshiyuki Tatsumi
Japanese geologist
223
views
98
Masato Koyama
220
views
99
Dougal Dixon
British author
📚 11 citations
214
views
100
Ren Hirayama
Japanese paleontologist
📚 5 citations
211
views