Trending Geologists this month
The 100 most-viewed geologists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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394,028
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
52,785
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views
2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
30,008
views
views
3
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
28,592
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
21,303
views
views
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
15,989
views
views
6
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
12,750
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
10,643
views
views
8
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
10,534
views
views
9
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
9,839
views
views
10
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
8,628
views
views
11
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
7,898
views
views
12
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
7,802
views
views
13
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
7,185
views
views
14
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,634
views
views
15
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
5,520
views
views
16
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
5,300
views
views
17
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
5,288
views
views
18
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
4,482
views
views
19
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
4,455
views
views
20
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
4,249
views
views
21
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
4,150
views
views
22
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
4,002
views
views
23
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
3,960
views
views
24
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
3,752
views
views
25
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,695
views
views
26
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
3,552
views
views
27
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
3,542
views
views
28
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
3,304
views
views
29
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,907
views
views
30
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
2,787
views
views
31
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
2,743
views
views
32
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
2,729
views
views
33
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,679
views
views
34
Barry Voight
American geologist
2,623
views
views
35
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
2,525
views
views
36
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
2,475
views
views
37
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
2,345
views
views
38
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
2,118
views
views
39
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
2,076
views
views
40
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
2,052
views
views
41
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
2,048
views
views
42
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
2,012
views
views
43
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
1,964
views
views
44
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
1,931
views
views
45
James Smithson
British chemist
1,921
views
views
46
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
1,903
views
views
47
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,853
views
views
48
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
1,759
views
views
49
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
1,731
views
views
50
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
1,665
views
views
51
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
1,648
views
views
52
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
1,620
views
views
53
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,600
views
views
54
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
1,591
views
views
55
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
1,565
views
views
56
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
1,543
views
views
57
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
1,527
views
views
58
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,496
views
views
59
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
1,418
views
views
60
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,409
views
views
61
Judith Curry
American climatologist
1,403
views
views
62
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
1,393
views
views
63
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,393
views
views
64
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,387
views
views
65
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
1,365
views
views
66
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
1,326
views
views
67
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
1,326
views
views
68
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
1,313
views
views
69
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
1,266
views
views
70
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
1,168
views
views
71
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
1,145
views
views
72
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,122
views
views
73
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1,097
views
views
74
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
1,080
views
views
75
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
1,072
views
views
76
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
1,070
views
views
77
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
1,063
views
views
78
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,005
views
views
79
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
994
views
views
80
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
980
views
views
81
Farouk Al-Kasim
Norwegian geologist
977
views
views
82
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
968
views
views
83
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
935
views
views
84
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
927
views
views
85
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
908
views
views
86
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
899
views
views
87
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
898
views
views
88
Mike Berners-Lee
British professor and ecologist (1964-)
886
views
views
89
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
880
views
views
90
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
862
views
views
91
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher (1900β1970)
860
views
views
92
Dougal Dixon
British author
821
views
views
93
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
803
views
views
94
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
783
views
views
95
Christopher Jackson
British geologist
778
views
views
96
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
763
views
views
97
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
762
views
views
98
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
759
views
views
99
Robert T. Bakker
American paleontologist
748
views
views
100
Sue Hendrickson
American paleontologist and archeologist
739
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