Trending Geologists of all time
The 100 most-viewed geologists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Richard E. Grant.
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39,565
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1
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
5,924
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2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
3,672
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3
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
3,571
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views
4
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
1,419
views
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5
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
1,406
views
views
6
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
1,361
views
views
7
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
1,344
views
views
8
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
979
views
views
9
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
930
views
views
10
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
901
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views
11
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
680
views
views
12
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
624
views
views
13
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862β1942)
572
views
views
14
Alexander Avdonin
archeologist, founder of Nicholas II grave
555
views
views
15
Shiva Balak Misra
Indian geologist
522
views
views
16
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
492
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views
17
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
450
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views
18
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
434
views
views
19
Ada Copeland King
wife of Clarence King
410
views
views
20
Michel Siffre
French cave explorer (1939β2024)
394
views
views
21
Scott D. Sampson
Canadian paleontologist
385
views
views
22
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
384
views
views
23
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
369
views
views
24
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
362
views
views
25
Stacey Sutton
fictional character
361
views
views
26
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
354
views
views
27
Alberto Angela
Italian paleontologist, science communicator, writer and journalist (born 1962)
326
views
views
28
JosΓ© BonifΓ‘cio de Andrada e Silva
(1763-1838) Brazilian politician
321
views
views
29
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
316
views
views
30
Boyan Petrov
Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer (1973-2018)
314
views
views
31
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
308
views
views
32
James E. Talmage
American Mormon leader (1862β1933)
300
views
views
33
John Bidwell
American politician (1819-1900)
298
views
views
34
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
262
views
views
35
Franz Ernst Neumann
German physicist and mineralogist (1798-1895)
248
views
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36
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
247
views
views
37
Jovan CvijiΔ
Serbian scientist (1865β1927)
232
views
views
38
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
221
views
views
39
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
English geologist, topographer and surveyor (1834β1923)
211
views
views
40
Henry De la Beche
English geologist, palaeontologist and Slave plantations owner (1796β1855)
204
views
views
41
George Ernest Morrison
Australian journalist (1862-1920)
204
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views
42
Ding Zhongli
Chinese geologist and politician
203
views
views
43
Tej P. Singh
Indian crystallographer
189
views
views
44
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
183
views
views
45
Daniel Barringer
American geologist (1860β1929)
180
views
views
46
Joseph LeConte
American geologist (1823β1901)
177
views
views
47
Thomas A. Mutch
American geologist and planetary scientist (1931-1980)
174
views
views
48
Carl Reichenbach
German scientist and philosopher (1788β1869)
173
views
views
49
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
166
views
views
50
Stacey Travers
American politician, scientist, and military veteran
151
views
views
51
Amos Eaton
American botanist (1776-1842)
149
views
views
52
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
146
views
views
53
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
British zoologist (1903β1991)
144
views
views
54
John White Webster
American academic (1793-1850)
144
views
views
55
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher (1900β1970)
141
views
views
56
Xu Xing
Chinese paleontologist
139
views
views
57
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
137
views
views
58
John William Dawson
Canadian geologist, principal of McGill University (1820β1899)
130
views
views
59
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
123
views
views
60
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Indian climate scientist
122
views
views
61
Emil Constantinescu
President of Romania from 1996 to 2000
122
views
views
62
Gavin de Beer
British evolutionary embryologist (1899-1972)
119
views
views
63
Mark Bristow
South African businessman
119
views
views
64
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
117
views
views
65
Theodore Gill
American biologist (1837β1914)
116
views
views
66
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
115
views
views
67
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
112
views
views
68
Philip D. Jones
British climatologist
111
views
views
69
Don Lessem
American dinosaur expert and author
106
views
views
70
William Whewell
English philosopher and historian of science (1794β1866)
106
views
views
71
Christopher R. Scotese
American geologist
106
views
views
72
Hans Merensky
German South African geologist, prospector, scientist, conservationist and philanthropist (1871β1952)
105
views
views
73
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
104
views
views
74
Clarence King
American geologist (1842-1901)
103
views
views
75
Bruce Charles Heezen
American geologist (1924-1977)
101
views
views
76
Grover Krantz
American biological anthropologist (1931β2002)
99
views
views
77
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
98
views
views
78
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
94
views
views
79
Bruce Bolt
American seismologist (1930β2005)
94
views
views
80
Mary Doria Russell
American novelist
92
views
views
81
Ralph Patt
United States jazz-guitarist, inventor of major-thirds tuning; geologist specializing in hydrology and consulting on Hanford Site (1929-2010
91
views
views
82
William Barton Rogers
American scientist, founder of MIT (1804-1882)
89
views
views
83
Charlotte Murchison
British geologist (1788-1869)
88
views
views
84
Edward Forbes
Manx naturalist (1815β1854)
88
views
views
85
Alexander Gorodnitsky
Russian bard and poet (born 1933)
88
views
views
86
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist (1743-1817)
83
views
views
87
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
83
views
views
88
John Nielsen-Gammon
American meteorologist and climatologist
82
views
views
89
John C. Branner
American geologist, professor of geology and President of Stanford University, Palo Alto (1850-1922)
81
views
views
90
Bob Makela
78
views
views
91
Pramatha Nath Bose
Indian geologist (1855β1935)
78
views
views
92
Robert T. Bakker
American paleontologist
77
views
views
93
Peter Crane
British botanist and paleontologist (1954- )
76
views
views
94
Nirmal Kumar Bose
Indian anthropologist (1901β1972)
75
views
views
95
Benjamin Silliman Sr.
early American chemist and science educator (1779β1864)
73
views
views
96
Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Anglo-French zoologist (1835-1900)
73
views
views
97
Nikita Lobanov
Russian art collector
72
views
views
98
Christopher Jackson
British geologist
71
views
views
99
Inge Lehmann
Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)
71
views
views
100
Rudolf Amandus Philippi
German-Chilean naturalist and palaeontologist (1808-1904)
71
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