Trending Chemists — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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5,242,239
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
332,577
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
328,284
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
5
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
253,246
views
views
6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
234,628
views
views
7
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
219,077
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
172,895
views
views
9
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
102,013
views
views
10
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
88,493
views
views
11
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
83,973
views
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
73,131
views
views
13
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
70,606
views
views
14
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
69,196
views
views
15
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
68,585
views
views
16
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
65,716
views
views
17
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
65,512
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
61,068
views
views
19
Frauke Petry
German politician
60,179
views
views
20
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
59,732
views
views
21
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
59,548
views
views
22
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
59,474
views
views
23
Katherina Reiche
German politician
57,924
views
views
24
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
57,024
views
views
25
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
56,007
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
52,860
views
views
27
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
49,883
views
views
28
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
49,529
views
views
29
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
48,742
views
views
30
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
43,795
views
views
31
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
42,954
views
views
32
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
42,830
views
views
33
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
41,875
views
views
34
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
40,736
views
views
35
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
39,576
views
views
36
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
39,356
views
views
37
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
39,039
views
views
38
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
37,149
views
views
39
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
36,872
views
views
40
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
35,865
views
views
41
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
35,398
views
views
42
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
33,663
views
views
43
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
33,019
views
views
44
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
32,947
views
views
45
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
32,544
views
views
46
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
32,264
views
views
47
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
32,096
views
views
48
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
30,458
views
views
49
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
30,292
views
views
50
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
30,171
views
views
51
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
30,066
views
views
52
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
29,646
views
views
53
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
28,913
views
views
54
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
27,438
views
views
55
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
27,271
views
views
56
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
27,259
views
views
57
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
26,954
views
views
58
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
26,678
views
views
59
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
25,600
views
views
60
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
25,511
views
views
61
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
25,472
views
views
62
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
24,100
views
views
63
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
21,817
views
views
64
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
21,812
views
views
65
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
21,615
views
views
66
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
21,205
views
views
67
Mohammad Salman Hamdani
Pakistani American police cadet, first responder and victim of 9/11 attacks (1977–2001)
20,890
views
views
68
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
20,687
views
views
69
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
20,449
views
views
70
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
20,393
views
views
71
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
20,117
views
views
72
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
20,034
views
views
73
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
20,000
views
views
74
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
19,912
views
views
75
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
19,632
views
views
76
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
18,175
views
views
77
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
18,055
views
views
78
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
17,370
views
views
79
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
17,245
views
views
80
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)
16,862
views
views
81
Arthur D. Levinson
American molecular biologist, biochemist and chairman of Apple Inc. (born 1950)
16,771
views
views
82
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
16,762
views
views
83
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
16,682
views
views
84
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,609
views
views
85
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
16,547
views
views
86
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
16,156
views
views
87
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
16,021
views
views
88
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
15,535
views
views
89
Peter Douglas
American film producer
15,442
views
views
90
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
15,268
views
views
91
Irina Toneva
Russian musician
15,141
views
views
92
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
14,938
views
views
93
Artem Oganov
Russian crystallographer, chemist and materials scientist
14,681
views
views
94
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
14,101
views
views
95
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
14,066
views
views
96
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
13,878
views
views
97
Mark Whitacre
American chief executive and money launderer
13,831
views
views
98
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
13,736
views
views
99
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
13,597
views
views
100
Eric Betzig
American physicist
13,441
views
views
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