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Trending Physicists in USA this month

The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.

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1,178,213
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Country ๐ŸŒ Global ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ€“2012)
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
130,272
views
2
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ€“1955)
๐Ÿ“š 92 citations Person
60,945
views
3
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ€“2018)
๐Ÿ“š 102 citations Person
40,808
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ€“1790)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
36,492
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ€“1943)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
34,994
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โˆ’1519)
๐Ÿ“š 55 citations Person
34,022
views
7
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 72 citations Person
33,467
views
8
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
๐Ÿ“š 54 citations Person
31,649
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
31,073
views
10
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ€“1967)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
30,100
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ€“1988)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
24,047
views
12
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ€“1977)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
21,973
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
๐Ÿ“š 29 citations Person
21,492
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ€“1783)
๐Ÿ“š 50 citations Person
19,786
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
๐Ÿ“š 41 citations Person
19,570
views
16
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
18,777
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
18,725
views
18
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ€“1931)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
18,204
views
19
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ€“1996)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
17,162
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
๐Ÿ“š 52 citations Person
15,647
views
21
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
๐Ÿ“š 1 citation Person
15,521
views
22
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
13,350
views
23
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
๐Ÿ“š 6 citations Person
13,340
views
24
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
13,206
views
25
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
๐Ÿ“š 133 citations Person
12,602
views
26
Renรฉ Descartes
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ€“1650)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
12,154
views
27
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
๐Ÿ“š 2 citations Person
11,885
views
28
Steven Hawley
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
๐Ÿ“š 3 citations Person
11,778
views
29
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ€“1976)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
11,189
views
30
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ€“1957)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
11,160
views
31
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ€“2008)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
10,967
views
32
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
10,638
views
33
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
10,552
views
34
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ€“ c. 212 BC)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
10,330
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ€“1832)
๐Ÿ“š 75 citations Person
10,096
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ€“1922)
๐Ÿ“š 36 citations Person
10,053
views
37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
9,889
views
38
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
9,396
views
39
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
๐Ÿ“š 81 citations Person
8,670
views
40
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
๐Ÿ“š 1 citation Person
8,245
views
41
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ€“2003)
๐Ÿ“š 35 citations Person
8,162
views
42
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
7,942
views
43
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
7,625
views
44
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ€“1984)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
7,500
views
45
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ€“1855)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
7,342
views
46
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ€“1867)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
6,956
views
47
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ€“1966)
๐Ÿ“š 14 citations Person
6,946
views
48
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
6,789
views
49
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ€“1958)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
6,767
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
6,663
views
51
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ€“1716)
๐Ÿ“š 61 citations Person
6,646
views
52
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ€“1037)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
6,579
views
53
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ€“1962)
๐Ÿ“š 74 citations Person
6,552
views
54
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ€“1961)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
6,376
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ€“1879)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
6,339
views
56
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ€“1906)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
6,325
views
57
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italianโ€“American physicist (1901โ€“1954)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
6,023
views
58
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
5,584
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
5,367
views
60
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
5,305
views
61
Kurt Gรถdel
Kurt Gรถdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
5,250
views
62
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ€“1947)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
5,170
views
63
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
๐Ÿ“š 10 citations Person
5,076
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
4,984
views
65
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ€“1970)
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
4,886
views
66
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ€“1630)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
4,872
views
67
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928โ€“2025)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
4,834
views
68
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ€“1948)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
4,790
views
69
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 33 citations Person
4,705
views
70
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ€“1956)
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
4,669
views
71
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ€“1992)
๐Ÿ“š 39 citations Person
4,537
views
72
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
4,430
views
73
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882โ€“1935)
๐Ÿ“š 31 citations Person
4,255
views
74
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
4,223
views
75
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
๐Ÿ“š 3 citations Person
4,220
views
76
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
4,218
views
77
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 17 citations Person
4,183
views
78
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
4,176
views
79
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936โ€“2021)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
4,139
views
80
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ€“1937)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
4,044
views
81
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 3 citations Person
3,853
views
82
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
3,766
views
83
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ€“1994)
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
3,754
views
84
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
3,730
views
85
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
๐Ÿ“š 4 citations Person
3,625
views
86
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ€“1907)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
3,580
views
87
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
๐Ÿ“š 69 citations Person
3,561
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 9 citations Person
3,456
views
89
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
3,362
views
90
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
Person
3,355
views
91
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
3,336
views
92
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287โ€“1347)
๐Ÿ“š 25 citations Person
3,322
views
93
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ€“1794)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
3,303
views
94
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
3,301
views
95
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ€” 1703)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
3,258
views
96
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ€“1943)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
3,235
views
97
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
3,228
views
98
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ€“1131)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
3,193
views
99
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ€“1966)
Person
3,161
views
100
Fidel รngel Castro Dรญaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
๐Ÿ“š 7 citations Person
3,159
views