Trending Geologists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed geologists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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Ranked
560,928
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
85,491
views
views
2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
42,314
views
views
3
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
38,635
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
32,613
views
views
5
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
17,719
views
views
6
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
17,507
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
14,239
views
views
8
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
12,213
views
views
9
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
11,940
views
views
10
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
11,788
views
views
11
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
11,759
views
views
12
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
11,732
views
views
13
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
11,722
views
views
14
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
10,168
views
views
15
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
8,222
views
views
16
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,634
views
views
17
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
7,576
views
views
18
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
6,892
views
views
19
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
6,325
views
views
20
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
5,833
views
views
21
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
5,819
views
views
22
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
5,422
views
views
23
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
5,370
views
views
24
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
4,928
views
views
25
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
4,838
views
views
26
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
4,793
views
views
27
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
4,255
views
views
28
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
4,238
views
views
29
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
4,208
views
views
30
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
4,163
views
views
31
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
4,046
views
views
32
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
3,742
views
views
33
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,719
views
views
34
Humphry Davy
British chemist
3,652
views
views
35
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
3,532
views
views
36
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
3,427
views
views
37
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
3,270
views
views
38
Barry Voight
American geologist
3,142
views
views
39
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
3,134
views
views
40
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
2,841
views
views
41
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
2,776
views
views
42
William Smith
English geologist
2,768
views
views
43
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
2,759
views
views
44
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
2,745
views
views
45
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
2,742
views
views
46
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
2,728
views
views
47
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
2,720
views
views
48
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
2,599
views
views
49
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,585
views
views
50
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
2,565
views
views
51
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,543
views
views
52
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
2,484
views
views
53
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
2,297
views
views
54
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
2,288
views
views
55
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
2,261
views
views
56
James Smithson
British chemist
2,228
views
views
57
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
2,196
views
views
58
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
2,191
views
views
59
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
2,140
views
views
60
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
2,043
views
views
61
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
1,909
views
views
62
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
1,890
views
views
63
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
1,860
views
views
64
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
1,856
views
views
65
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
1,810
views
views
66
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
1,803
views
views
67
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,740
views
views
68
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
1,703
views
views
69
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,670
views
views
70
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
1,650
views
views
71
Ian Plimer
Australian geologist
1,578
views
views
72
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
1,531
views
views
73
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1,531
views
views
74
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
1,504
views
views
75
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
1,456
views
views
76
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
1,431
views
views
77
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
1,430
views
views
78
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
1,404
views
views
79
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,334
views
views
80
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
1,291
views
views
81
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
1,279
views
views
82
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,275
views
views
83
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
1,274
views
views
84
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,262
views
views
85
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
1,257
views
views
86
JosΓ© Bonaparte
Argentine paleontologist (1928β2020)
1,250
views
views
87
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
1,249
views
views
88
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
1,245
views
views
89
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
1,243
views
views
90
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,242
views
views
91
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,228
views
views
92
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819β1888)
1,213
views
views
93
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
1,171
views
views
94
Farouk Al-Kasim
Norwegian geologist
1,165
views
views
95
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
1,132
views
views
96
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher (1900β1970)
1,125
views
views
97
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
1,107
views
views
98
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
1,106
views
views
99
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
1,105
views
views
100
Tony Hayward
British businessman
1,100
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