Trending Chemists — all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Kensō Soai. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
5,018,924
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Kensō Soai
Japanese organic chemist (1950– )
1,096,164
views
views
2
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
249,499
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
228,246
views
views
4
Henri B. Kagan
French chemist
220,395
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
210,370
views
views
6
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
198,269
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
182,367
views
views
8
Peter Hegemann
German biophysicist
152,506
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
139,219
views
views
10
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
108,831
views
views
11
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
96,974
views
views
12
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
86,418
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
74,644
views
views
14
Mary Archer
British chemist (born 1944)
64,074
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
59,399
views
views
16
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
59,008
views
views
17
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
54,655
views
views
18
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
54,240
views
views
19
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
43,965
views
views
20
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
40,501
views
views
21
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
39,685
views
views
23
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
38,670
views
views
24
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
37,720
views
views
25
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
34,290
views
views
26
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
34,032
views
views
27
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
32,863
views
views
28
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
32,646
views
views
29
Peter Douglas
American film producer
32,361
views
views
30
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
32,322
views
views
31
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
31,385
views
views
32
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
30,086
views
views
33
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Japanese chemist (1927-2018)
28,872
views
views
34
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
28,062
views
views
35
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
27,113
views
views
36
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
26,456
views
views
37
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
25,640
views
views
38
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
24,612
views
views
39
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
24,547
views
views
40
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
24,183
views
views
41
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
24,128
views
views
42
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
24,037
views
views
43
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
23,875
views
views
44
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
23,772
views
views
45
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
23,743
views
views
46
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
23,386
views
views
47
Feng Zhang
Chinese-American synthetic biologist
22,989
views
views
48
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
22,451
views
views
49
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
22,220
views
views
50
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
22,074
views
views
51
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
21,955
views
views
52
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
21,718
views
views
53
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
21,476
views
views
54
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
20,101
views
views
55
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
19,702
views
views
56
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
19,179
views
views
57
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
19,142
views
views
58
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
19,130
views
views
59
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
18,942
views
views
60
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
18,374
views
views
61
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
18,131
views
views
62
Frauke Petry
German politician
17,585
views
views
63
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
17,396
views
views
64
Sebastian Lege
German chef and TV personality
17,271
views
views
65
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
16,464
views
views
66
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,241
views
views
67
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
16,240
views
views
68
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
16,201
views
views
69
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
15,455
views
views
70
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
15,433
views
views
71
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
15,336
views
views
72
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
15,073
views
views
73
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
14,665
views
views
74
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
14,345
views
views
75
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
14,308
views
views
76
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
13,892
views
views
77
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,813
views
views
78
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
13,555
views
views
79
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
13,554
views
views
80
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
13,355
views
views
81
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
13,241
views
views
82
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
13,219
views
views
83
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
13,175
views
views
84
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
12,990
views
views
85
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
12,343
views
views
86
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
12,250
views
views
87
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
12,193
views
views
88
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
12,115
views
views
89
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
11,897
views
views
90
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
11,606
views
views
91
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
11,529
views
views
92
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
11,396
views
views
93
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
11,183
views
views
94
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
10,860
views
views
95
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
10,831
views
views
96
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
10,793
views
views
97
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
10,680
views
views
98
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
10,310
views
views
99
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
10,278
views
views
100
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
10,184
views
views
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