Trending Geologists this year
The 100 most-viewed geologists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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Ranked
694,602
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
101,391
views
views
2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
50,957
views
views
3
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
43,949
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
42,653
views
views
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
26,777
views
views
6
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
22,815
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
17,968
views
views
8
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
16,020
views
views
9
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
15,985
views
views
10
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
14,755
views
views
11
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
14,609
views
views
12
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
14,227
views
views
13
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
12,652
views
views
14
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
12,221
views
views
15
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
10,482
views
views
16
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
10,069
views
views
17
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
8,998
views
views
18
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
8,208
views
views
19
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
8,094
views
views
20
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
6,921
views
views
21
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
6,685
views
views
22
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
6,500
views
views
23
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
6,467
views
views
24
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
6,308
views
views
25
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
6,152
views
views
26
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
5,763
views
views
27
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
5,511
views
views
28
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
4,826
views
views
29
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
4,642
views
views
30
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
4,593
views
views
31
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
4,504
views
views
32
Humphry Davy
British chemist
4,498
views
views
33
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
4,428
views
views
34
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
4,394
views
views
35
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
4,287
views
views
36
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
4,183
views
views
37
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
4,165
views
views
38
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
4,103
views
views
39
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
4,040
views
views
40
Barry Voight
American geologist
3,903
views
views
41
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,881
views
views
42
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
3,878
views
views
43
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,731
views
views
44
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
3,516
views
views
45
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
3,358
views
views
46
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
3,304
views
views
47
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
3,292
views
views
48
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
3,267
views
views
49
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
3,261
views
views
50
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
3,199
views
views
51
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
3,178
views
views
52
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
3,099
views
views
53
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
3,011
views
views
54
William Smith
English geologist
2,922
views
views
55
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,911
views
views
56
James Smithson
British chemist
2,748
views
views
57
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
2,738
views
views
58
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
2,658
views
views
59
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
2,640
views
views
60
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
2,550
views
views
61
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
2,506
views
views
62
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
2,492
views
views
63
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
2,480
views
views
64
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
2,315
views
views
65
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
2,258
views
views
66
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
2,229
views
views
67
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
2,187
views
views
68
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
2,187
views
views
69
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
2,185
views
views
70
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
2,024
views
views
71
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
2,004
views
views
72
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
1,998
views
views
73
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
1,985
views
views
74
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
1,915
views
views
75
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,875
views
views
76
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,867
views
views
77
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1,825
views
views
78
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
1,811
views
views
79
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
1,785
views
views
80
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
1,718
views
views
81
Ian Plimer
Australian geologist
1,713
views
views
82
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
1,660
views
views
83
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
1,612
views
views
84
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,579
views
views
85
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
1,571
views
views
86
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,546
views
views
87
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,542
views
views
88
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
1,530
views
views
89
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
1,529
views
views
90
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,524
views
views
91
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
1,499
views
views
92
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
1,496
views
views
93
Manuel Hobiger
1,488
views
views
94
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
1,479
views
views
95
JosΓ© Bonaparte
Argentine paleontologist (1928β2020)
1,478
views
views
96
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
1,414
views
views
97
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819β1888)
1,395
views
views
98
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
1,360
views
views
99
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
1,348
views
views
100
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
1,348
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