Trending Chemists — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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7,437,284
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
449,063
views
views
2
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
447,671
views
views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
425,408
views
views
4
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
395,438
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
378,730
views
views
6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
355,580
views
views
7
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
266,147
views
views
8
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
252,879
views
views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
241,296
views
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
129,932
views
views
11
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
119,477
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
108,277
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
107,364
views
views
14
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
106,483
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
101,297
views
views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
94,175
views
views
17
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
89,597
views
views
18
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
86,318
views
views
19
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
85,572
views
views
20
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
84,072
views
views
21
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
74,551
views
views
22
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
71,957
views
views
23
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
71,564
views
views
24
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
70,311
views
views
25
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
69,668
views
views
26
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
65,362
views
views
27
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
65,314
views
views
28
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
63,457
views
views
29
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
63,249
views
views
30
Frauke Petry
German politician
63,133
views
views
31
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
62,949
views
views
32
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
62,398
views
views
33
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
62,258
views
views
34
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
61,944
views
views
35
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
60,907
views
views
36
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
60,753
views
views
37
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
51,468
views
views
38
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
51,338
views
views
39
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
51,044
views
views
40
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
50,593
views
views
41
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
48,689
views
views
42
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
48,185
views
views
43
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
47,977
views
views
44
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
47,915
views
views
45
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
47,815
views
views
46
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
47,379
views
views
47
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
46,690
views
views
48
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
46,615
views
views
49
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
46,231
views
views
50
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
44,065
views
views
51
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
43,476
views
views
52
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
42,901
views
views
53
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
42,192
views
views
54
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
39,880
views
views
55
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
39,290
views
views
56
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
37,634
views
views
57
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
36,956
views
views
58
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
35,530
views
views
59
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
35,316
views
views
60
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
34,855
views
views
61
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
33,295
views
views
62
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
31,514
views
views
63
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
31,331
views
views
64
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
30,873
views
views
65
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
30,810
views
views
66
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
30,508
views
views
67
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
30,360
views
views
68
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
30,103
views
views
69
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
29,115
views
views
70
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
27,965
views
views
71
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
27,582
views
views
72
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
27,040
views
views
73
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
26,765
views
views
74
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
26,747
views
views
75
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
25,808
views
views
76
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
25,156
views
views
77
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
24,799
views
views
78
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
24,753
views
views
79
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
24,334
views
views
80
Rake Yohn
American television personality
24,208
views
views
81
Peter Douglas
American film producer
24,200
views
views
82
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
23,836
views
views
83
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)
23,741
views
views
84
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
23,537
views
views
85
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
23,067
views
views
86
Mohammad Salman Hamdani
Pakistani American police cadet, first responder and victim of 9/11 attacks (1977–2001)
22,659
views
views
87
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
22,304
views
views
88
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
21,859
views
views
89
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
21,795
views
views
90
Arthur D. Levinson
American molecular biologist, biochemist and chairman of Apple Inc. (born 1950)
21,776
views
views
91
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
21,739
views
views
92
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
21,665
views
views
93
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
21,577
views
views
94
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
21,374
views
views
95
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
21,007
views
views
96
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
20,884
views
views
97
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
20,161
views
views
98
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
19,633
views
views
99
John Michael Jumper
American chemist and AI expert
19,585
views
views
100
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
19,234
views
views
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