Trending Biologists this year
The 100 most-viewed biologists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Fauci.
100
Ranked
3,741,085
Total Views (this year)
Country
π Global
πΊπΈ USA
π©πͺ Germany
π«π· France
π―π΅ Japan
πͺπΈ Spain
π§π· Brazil
π·πΊ Russia
π¨π³ China
1
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
516,062
views
views
2
Bill Oddie
British actor, writer, composer, musician, comedian, ornithologist, conservationist, television presenter
463,441
views
views
3
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
148,169
views
views
4
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858β1919)
144,450
views
views
5
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
101,391
views
views
6
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
99,026
views
views
7
Paul Walker
American actor (1973β2013)
90,051
views
views
8
Christine Grady
nurse-bioethicist and researcher
89,435
views
views
9
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
85,008
views
views
10
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
74,007
views
views
11
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856β1939)
68,187
views
views
12
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
63,619
views
views
13
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
60,099
views
views
14
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812β1870)
51,686
views
views
15
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
49,565
views
views
16
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920β1992)
45,832
views
views
17
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
43,949
views
views
18
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
43,234
views
views
19
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
42,653
views
views
20
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
40,499
views
views
21
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728β1779)
35,254
views
views
22
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934β2025)
34,805
views
views
23
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
32,220
views
views
24
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
28,933
views
views
25
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
28,198
views
views
26
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932β1985)
27,139
views
views
27
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
26,777
views
views
28
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899β1977)
26,747
views
views
29
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
26,619
views
views
30
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Joe Exotic
American zoo operator, internet personality, and musician
26,144
views
views
31
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886β1956)
25,877
views
views
32
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
25,778
views
views
33
Christopher Duntsch
American neurosurgeon and convicted criminal for malpractice
25,715
views
views
34
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945β2026)
25,357
views
views
35
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817β1862)
24,427
views
views
36
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
24,317
views
views
37
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
24,174
views
views
38
Timothy Treadwell
American documentary filmmaker (1957β2003)
23,511
views
views
39
Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
22,975
views
views
40
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098β1179)
22,876
views
views
41
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866β1943)
22,849
views
views
42
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
22,815
views
views
43
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
22,094
views
views
44
Anne Wojcicki
American biotech analyst, biologist, businesswoman, and co-founder of 23andMe
21,667
views
views
45
Deborah L. Birx
American physician and diplomat
21,584
views
views
46
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905β1997)
21,281
views
views
47
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
20,207
views
views
48
Cesar Millan
Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality
20,095
views
views
49
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
19,909
views
views
50
Jack Kevorkian
American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
19,651
views
views
51
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
19,609
views
views
52
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
19,050
views
views
53
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
19,025
views
views
54
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
18,768
views
views
55
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
17,968
views
views
56
Maya Higa
American conservationist, falconer, wildlife rehabilitator, and Twitch streamer
17,552
views
views
57
Maneka Gandhi
Indian politician and activist
17,258
views
views
58
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,847
views
views
59
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
16,672
views
views
60
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
16,448
views
views
61
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
16,020
views
views
62
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
15,930
views
views
63
ShirΕ Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese
15,772
views
views
64
Johnny Appleseed
American nurseryman and missionary (1774β1845)
15,670
views
views
65
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
14,968
views
views
66
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
14,755
views
views
67
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914β1995)
14,647
views
views
68
Andrew D. Huberman
American neuroscientist
14,082
views
views
69
Jeremy Wade
British television presenter and author
13,981
views
views
70
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer (1774-1809)
13,774
views
views
71
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901β1983)
13,676
views
views
72
Roger Bannister
English physician and athlete (1929β2018)
13,651
views
views
73
Stephen Strange
character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
13,393
views
views
74
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822β1884)
13,268
views
views
75
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818β1865)
12,977
views
views
76
Spider-Man 2099
superhero appearing in Marvel Comics
12,927
views
views
77
Ernst JΓΌnger
German writer (1895β1998)
12,904
views
views
78
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875β1934)
12,675
views
views
79
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915β2017)
12,595
views
views
80
Forrest Galante
outdoor adventurer, wildlife biologist, herpetologist, and television personality
12,543
views
views
81
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
12,488
views
views
82
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
12,221
views
views
83
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
11,555
views
views
84
Jack Hanna
American zoologist
11,454
views
views
85
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904β1990)
11,064
views
views
86
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933β2015)
10,823
views
views
87
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
10,727
views
views
88
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
10,618
views
views
89
Eugene Sledge
United States Marine (1923-2001)
10,547
views
views
90
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
10,482
views
views
91
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946β2000)
10,476
views
views
92
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950β1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
10,220
views
views
93
Matthew C. Perry
American naval officer (1794β1858)
10,164
views
views
94
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
10,069
views
views
95
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
10,044
views
views
96
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
9,994
views
views
97
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914β2009)
9,757
views
views
98
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher (b. 1957)
9,687
views
views
99
James Bowie
nineteenth-century American pioneer
9,582
views
views
100
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944β2019)
9,350
views
views
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