Trending Physicians this year
The 100 most-viewed physicians this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Fauci.
100
Ranked
3,620,850
Total Views (this year)
Country
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π©πͺ Germany
π«π· France
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πͺπΈ Spain
π§π· Brazil
π·πΊ Russia
π¨π³ China
1
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
516,062
views
views
2
Graeme Garden
British actor and comedian
178,731
views
views
3
Rand Paul
United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
161,795
views
views
4
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928β1967)
139,238
views
views
5
Conrad Murray
American physician
92,537
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
85,008
views
views
7
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911β1979)
75,482
views
views
8
Zack Polanski
British politician (born 1982)
70,832
views
views
9
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE β 543 or 483 BCE)
69,664
views
views
10
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856β1939)
68,187
views
views
11
Ken Jeong
South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
61,227
views
views
12
Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912β1958)
54,532
views
views
13
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
53,870
views
views
14
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist (1962-)
53,162
views
views
15
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875β1961)
53,100
views
views
16
Harold Shipman
English doctor and serial killer (1947-2004)
49,475
views
views
17
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942β2008)
46,257
views
views
18
Doc Holliday
gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851β1887)
45,750
views
views
19
Choi Dae-hoon
South Korean actor
41,720
views
views
20
Ron Paul
American politician (born 1935)
41,641
views
views
21
Ben Carson
Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
40,499
views
views
22
Mehmet Γz
Turkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
37,183
views
views
23
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859β1930)
34,586
views
views
24
Freida McFadden
American thriller author and practicing physician
34,443
views
views
25
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866β1925)
33,952
views
views
26
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission since 2019
33,902
views
views
27
H. H. Holmes
American con artist and serial killer (1861β1896)
33,706
views
views
28
Hannibal Lecter
fictional character created by Thomas Harris
32,002
views
views
29
Masoud Pezeshkian
9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
31,555
views
views
30
Michael Burry
American hedge fund manager
30,199
views
views
31
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503β1566)
27,985
views
views
32
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
26,949
views
views
33
Aishwarya Lekshmi
Indian actress
26,798
views
views
34
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
26,368
views
views
35
Graham Chapman
English actor, comedian and writer (1941β1989)
26,295
views
views
36
Christopher Duntsch
American neurosurgeon and convicted criminal for malpractice
25,715
views
views
37
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945β2026)
25,357
views
views
38
SΓ³crates
Brazilian association football player (1954β2011)
23,481
views
views
39
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098β1179)
22,876
views
views
40
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
22,815
views
views
41
Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody
Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker
22,803
views
views
42
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908β1973
22,722
views
views
43
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860β1904)
22,700
views
views
44
Drew Pinsky
American radio and television personality, physician, addiction medicine specialist
22,523
views
views
45
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
22,179
views
views
46
Miriam Adelson
American-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born in 1945)
21,938
views
views
47
Anas Sarwar
Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
21,692
views
views
48
Deborah L. Birx
American physician and diplomat
21,584
views
views
49
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
21,384
views
views
50
Jean Tatlock
American activist (1914-1944)
21,341
views
views
51
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905β1997)
21,281
views
views
52
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
20,748
views
views
53
Paolo Macchiarini
Italian surgeon
20,233
views
views
54
Ayman al-Zawahiri
al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951β2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon
20,123
views
views
55
Jonny Kim
American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut
19,979
views
views
56
Judy Lewis
American actress (1935-2011)
19,888
views
views
57
Jack Kevorkian
American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
19,651
views
views
58
Priscilla Chan
American pediatrician and philanthropist
19,558
views
views
59
Nina Hartley
American pornographic actress (born 1959)
19,455
views
views
60
Gabor MatΓ©
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944β)
19,445
views
views
61
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Amy Acton
American physician (born 1966)
19,256
views
views
62
Mary L. Trump
American psychologist and writer (born 1965)
19,178
views
views
63
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
19,025
views
views
64
Sandra Lee
American dermatologist and YouTuber
18,981
views
views
65
Harley Quinn
fictional character in DC Comics
18,874
views
views
66
Lai Ching-te
16th President of Taiwan (ROC) since 2024
18,670
views
views
67
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925β1961)
18,229
views
views
68
Younan Nowzaradan
doctor famous for operating on morbidly obese patients
17,769
views
views
69
John Carter
fictional character from the television series ER
17,456
views
views
70
Catherine Connolly
President of Ireland since 2025 (born 1955)
17,429
views
views
71
Baruch Goldstein
American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
16,929
views
views
72
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,847
views
views
73
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
16,672
views
views
74
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020
16,294
views
views
75
George Miller
Australian filmmaker (born 1945)
16,138
views
views
76
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928β1989)
16,087
views
views
77
Luka KovaΔ
Fictional physician on television show ER
16,028
views
views
78
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
16,003
views
views
79
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
15,930
views
views
80
Doctor Mike
RussianβAmerican celebrity doctor (born 1989)
15,887
views
views
81
Al Jardine
American musician
15,873
views
views
82
ShirΕ Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese
15,772
views
views
83
John Money
New Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist (1921β2006)
15,602
views
views
84
Bill Cassidy
American physician and politician (born 1957)
15,466
views
views
85
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
15,246
views
views
86
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
15,097
views
views
87
Patch Adams
American physician, activist, diplomat and author
15,022
views
views
88
lomar aja Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and researcher
14,968
views
views
89
John Keats
English Romantic poet (1795β1821)
14,948
views
views
90
Ronny Jackson
American physician, politician, and naval officer (born 1967)
14,942
views
views
91
George Hill Hodel
US physician, suspected murderer
14,894
views
views
92
Louise Brown
first in-vitro baby
14,856
views
views
93
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Turkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan (2006β2022)
14,756
views
views
94
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
14,755
views
views
95
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914β1995)
14,647
views
views
96
James Barry
19th-century military surgeon in the British Army
14,254
views
views
97
Radovan KaradΕΎiΔ
Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide
14,062
views
views
98
David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
14,018
views
views
99
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135β1204)
13,957
views
views
100
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868β1935)
13,870
views
views
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