Trending Scientists in USA this week
The 99 most-viewed scientists this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Michael Jackson.
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338,641
Total Views (this week)
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Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)
21,218
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2
Andy Burnham
British politician (born 1970)
9,599
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3
Ansel Adams
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)
8,450
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views
4
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
7,772
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views
5
Barack Obama
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)
6,880
views
views
6
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
6,803
views
views
7
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
6,741
views
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8
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
6,456
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9
Joe Jackson
American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928–2018)
6,425
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10
Muhammad Ali
American boxer (1942–2016)
6,317
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11
Katherine Jackson
matriarch of the Jackson musical family
6,019
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12
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (1926–2026)
4,894
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views
13
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
4,840
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views
14
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
4,475
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views
15
Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926–1962)
4,254
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views
16
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
4,228
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views
17
Serena Williams
American tennis player (1981)
4,221
views
views
18
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
4,128
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19
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
4,017
views
views
20
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
3,930
views
views
21
Helen Willetts
British meteorologist and badminton player
3,852
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views
22
Jeffrey Epstein
American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
3,836
views
views
23
Victor Davis Hanson
American classicist and military historian
3,808
views
views
24
Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
3,791
views
views
25
Michael Jordan
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
3,739
views
views
26
Jon Hamm
American actor (born 1971)
3,738
views
views
27
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
3,707
views
views
28
Valery Fabrikant
Canadian mathematician of Belarus-Sovietic descent (1940-2026)
3,567
views
views
29
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
3,449
views
views
30
Maggie Haberman
American journalist (born 1973)
3,330
views
views
31
Patrick Stewart
British actor (born 1940)
3,307
views
views
32
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States (2021–2025)
3,268
views
views
33
Tina Turner
American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
3,221
views
views
34
Rik Mayall
English actor, comedian and writer (1958–2014)
3,199
views
views
35
George H. W. Bush
president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1924-2018)
3,136
views
views
36
Jim Lovell
American astronaut (1928–2025)
3,117
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views
37
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Julia Letlow
American politician and academic administrator (born 1981)
3,106
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views
38
Hulk Hogan
American professional wrestler, actor and television personality (1953–2025)
3,049
views
views
39
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
2,989
views
views
40
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
2,922
views
views
41
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
2,906
views
views
42
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
2,869
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views
43
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
2,854
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views
44
Calvin Coolidge
president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
2,831
views
views
45
Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912–1958)
2,775
views
views
46
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
2,773
views
views
47
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
2,767
views
views
48
Gilda Radner
American actress and comedian (1946–1989)
2,761
views
views
49
James Talarico
American politician (born 1989)
2,711
views
views
50
Michael J. Fox
Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
2,666
views
views
51
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
2,648
views
views
52
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
2,642
views
views
53
Dolly Parton
American singer, songwriter and actress
2,629
views
views
54
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
2,588
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views
55
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
2,584
views
views
56
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
2,518
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57
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
2,482
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58
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
2,445
views
views
59
Bill Clinton
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)
2,438
views
views
60
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
2,422
views
views
61
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
2,409
views
views
62
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
2,408
views
views
63
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
2,407
views
views
64
Mahmood Mamdani
Ugandan academic (born 1946)
2,399
views
views
65
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
2,362
views
views
66
Anjelica Huston
American actress (born 1951)
2,352
views
views
67
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
2,337
views
views
68
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
2,334
views
views
69
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist (born 1954)
2,333
views
views
70
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
2,327
views
views
71
Drew Barrymore
American actress (born 1975)
2,287
views
views
72
Jesus Christ
central figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
2,280
views
views
73
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
2,267
views
views
74
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James Stagg
British meteorologist (1900-1975)
2,264
views
views
75
Charlie Chaplin
English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
2,255
views
views
76
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
2,251
views
views
77
Warren Jeffs
American religious leader and convicted felon (born 1955)
2,230
views
views
78
Phil Collins
English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
2,220
views
views
79
James Madison
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
2,201
views
views
80
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
2,199
views
views
81
Jon Batiste
American musician and singer (b. 1986)
2,194
views
views
82
Richard Pryor
American comedian and actor (1940–2005)
2,186
views
views
83
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
2,141
views
views
84
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
2,117
views
views
85
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
2,110
views
views
86
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
2,097
views
views
87
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
2,088
views
views
88
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
2,084
views
views
89
Fred Haise
American astronaut
2,071
views
views
90
Gerald Ford
president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
2,063
views
views
91
Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
2,056
views
views
92
Benito Mussolini
dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
2,055
views
views
93
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935–2024)
2,028
views
views
94
Gwyneth Paltrow
American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer (born 1972)
2,027
views
views
95
Salman Husaini Nadwi
Indian scholar
2,023
views
views
96
Bill Cassidy
American physician and politician (born 1957)
2,020
views
views
97
Debbie Reynolds
American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)
2,018
views
views
98
George Whitefield
English minister and preacher
2,017
views
views
99
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
2,017
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