Trending Physicists — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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8,777,208
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
489,763
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
339,042
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
332,577
views
views
4
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
329,450
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
310,089
views
views
7
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
272,169
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
219,077
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
215,647
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
205,982
views
views
12
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
13
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
173,020
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
158,853
views
views
15
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
151,322
views
views
16
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
142,947
views
views
17
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
141,779
views
views
18
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
131,711
views
views
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
119,206
views
views
20
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
108,049
views
views
21
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
99,646
views
views
22
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
98,357
views
views
23
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
97,406
views
views
24
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
96,511
views
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
96,220
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
27
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
94,035
views
views
28
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
89,208
views
views
29
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
84,711
views
views
30
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
83,973
views
views
31
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
83,955
views
views
32
Jesús Maria Tarriba
First Gentleman of Mexico
80,646
views
views
33
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
79,806
views
views
34
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
76,216
views
views
35
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
70,606
views
views
36
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
69,778
views
views
37
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
69,707
views
views
38
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
69,196
views
views
39
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
67,160
views
views
40
William Nicholas Hitchon
British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series
65,962
views
views
41
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
65,474
views
views
42
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
65,449
views
views
43
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
64,973
views
views
44
Sasquatch
fictional character in Marvel Comics
60,737
views
views
45
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
60,504
views
views
46
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
59,732
views
views
47
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
59,700
views
views
48
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
59,548
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
59,474
views
views
50
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
56,007
views
views
51
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
53,930
views
views
52
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
53,237
views
views
53
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
52,450
views
views
54
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
50,863
views
views
55
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
49,736
views
views
56
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
49,234
views
views
57
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
49,023
views
views
58
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
48,742
views
views
59
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
46,326
views
views
60
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
43,795
views
views
61
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
42,954
views
views
62
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
42,882
views
views
63
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
42,830
views
views
64
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
42,813
views
views
65
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
42,562
views
views
66
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
40,736
views
views
67
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
39,576
views
views
68
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
39,477
views
views
69
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
39,273
views
views
70
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
39,039
views
views
71
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
37,727
views
views
72
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
37,687
views
views
73
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
37,548
views
views
74
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
37,299
views
views
75
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
36,872
views
views
76
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
36,724
views
views
77
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
35,923
views
views
78
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
35,913
views
views
79
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
35,269
views
views
80
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
34,557
views
views
81
Reiner Haseloff
German politician
34,089
views
views
82
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
33,019
views
views
83
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
32,947
views
views
84
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
32,857
views
views
85
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
32,544
views
views
86
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
31,959
views
views
87
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
30,292
views
views
88
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
30,171
views
views
89
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
30,093
views
views
90
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
30,066
views
views
91
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
29,646
views
views
92
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
29,426
views
views
93
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
29,383
views
views
94
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
29,306
views
views
95
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
28,817
views
views
96
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
28,193
views
views
97
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
28,145
views
views
98
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
27,764
views
views
99
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
27,438
views
views
100
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
27,271
views
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