Trending Physicists in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
499,987
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,022
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
22,665
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
17,524
views
views
4
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
15,654
views
views
5
Jun Inoue
Japanese actor
14,580
views
views
6
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
14,092
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
13,017
views
views
8
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
12,991
views
views
9
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
12,350
views
views
10
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
11,684
views
views
11
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
10,821
views
views
12
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
10,525
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
10,404
views
views
14
Sakuma Shōzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
9,688
views
views
15
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
9,597
views
views
16
Yasunori Nomura
Japanese theoretical physicist (1974-)
9,435
views
views
17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,357
views
views
18
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
9,115
views
views
19
Chihaya Adachi
researcher
8,683
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
8,599
views
views
21
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
8,188
views
views
22
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
7,822
views
views
23
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,240
views
views
24
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,931
views
views
25
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,673
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,282
views
views
27
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,913
views
views
28
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
5,538
views
views
29
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,429
views
views
30
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
5,384
views
views
31
Yoshihiko Ōtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
4,939
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,825
views
views
33
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
4,791
views
views
34
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878–1935)
4,574
views
views
35
Yamakawa Kenjirō
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
4,426
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
4,312
views
views
37
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,264
views
views
38
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,013
views
views
39
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
3,899
views
views
40
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
3,874
views
views
41
Valentin Ceaușescu
Romanian physicist (born 1947)
3,693
views
views
42
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,677
views
views
43
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
3,462
views
views
44
Masato Sagawa
Japanese physicist (1943-)
3,452
views
views
45
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
3,437
views
views
46
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
3,290
views
views
47
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
3,251
views
views
48
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,149
views
views
49
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
3,053
views
views
50
Yū Kamiwaki
Japanese actress
2,945
views
views
51
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
2,900
views
views
52
Aya Ishihara
Japanese astrophysicist
2,819
views
views
53
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
2,811
views
views
54
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,737
views
views
55
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,714
views
views
56
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,670
views
views
57
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
2,599
views
views
58
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
2,541
views
views
59
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,531
views
views
60
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
2,490
views
views
61
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,485
views
views
62
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,431
views
views
63
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
2,279
views
views
64
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,235
views
views
65
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
2,164
views
views
66
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890–1951)
2,100
views
views
67
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
2,071
views
views
68
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,042
views
views
69
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
2,039
views
views
70
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
2,003
views
views
71
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
1,959
views
views
72
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
1,930
views
views
73
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
1,916
views
views
74
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
1,892
views
views
75
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
1,887
views
views
76
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
1,872
views
views
77
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
1,862
views
views
78
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
1,791
views
views
79
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
1,765
views
views
80
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,739
views
views
81
Tsutomu Shimomura
American physicist and computer security expert
1,723
views
views
82
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
1,705
views
views
83
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
1,693
views
views
84
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
1,681
views
views
85
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
1,676
views
views
86
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
1,670
views
views
87
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
1,622
views
views
88
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
1,595
views
views
89
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
1,586
views
views
90
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
1,551
views
views
91
Nagaoka Hantarō
Japanese physicist (1865–1950)
1,534
views
views
92
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
1,533
views
views
93
Kohei Itoh
Japanese physicist, the 19th President of Keio University
1,529
views
views
94
Taylor Wilson
American student, scientist
1,514
views
views
95
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,490
views
views
96
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,488
views
views
97
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
1,416
views
views
98
Kōtarō Honda
Japanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
1,399
views
views
99
Hitoshi Murayama
Japanese-born physicist with notable contributions in the fields of particle physics and cosmology (1964-)
1,396
views
views
100
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
1,383
views
views