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Trending Physicists of all time

The 100 most-viewed physicists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.

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1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
70,327
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
37,159
views
3
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
33,816
views
4
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
33,288
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
31,264
views
6
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
30,837
views
7
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
27,628
views
8
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
22,555
views
9
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
22,017
views
10
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
21,778
views
11
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
20,701
views
12
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
20,127
views
13
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
19,596
views
14
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
18,730
views
15
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
17,544
views
16
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
14,460
views
17
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
14,257
views
18
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
13,650
views
19
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
13,158
views
20
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
13,065
views
21
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
11,962
views
22
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
11,643
views
23
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
Person
11,327
views
24
Daniel Swarovski
Daniel Swarovski
Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862–1956)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
11,305
views
25
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
10,160
views
26
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
10,033
views
27
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
9,352
views
28
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
9,082
views
29
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
8,952
views
30
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
8,623
views
31
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
8,564
views
32
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
7,588
views
33
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
7,266
views
34
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
7,109
views
35
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
7,050
views
36
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
7,023
views
37
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
6,662
views
38
Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
Person
6,582
views
39
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
6,550
views
40
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
6,412
views
41
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
6,404
views
42
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
6,194
views
43
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
6,017
views
44
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
5,722
views
45
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
5,623
views
46
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
5,579
views
47
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
5,339
views
48
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
5,258
views
49
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
5,153
views
50
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
5,098
views
51
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
5,085
views
52
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
4,994
views
53
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
4,901
views
54
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
4,875
views
55
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
4,815
views
56
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
4,786
views
57
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
4,738
views
58
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
4,608
views
59
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
4,374
views
60
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
4,332
views
61
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
4,327
views
62
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
4,246
views
63
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
4,234
views
64
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977–2025)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
4,144
views
65
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
4,084
views
66
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
4,000
views
67
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
3,890
views
68
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
3,828
views
69
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
3,717
views
70
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
3,682
views
71
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
3,653
views
72
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
3,622
views
73
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
3,531
views
74
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
3,527
views
75
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
3,414
views
76
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
πŸ“š 69 citations Person
3,409
views
77
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
3,373
views
78
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
3,192
views
79
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
3,171
views
80
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
3,141
views
81
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
3,129
views
82
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
3,099
views
83
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
Person
3,037
views
84
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
3,026
views
85
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
3,013
views
86
JesΓΊs Maria Tarriba
First Gentleman of Mexico
Person
2,972
views
87
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
2,950
views
88
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
2,914
views
89
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
2,895
views
90
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
2,878
views
91
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
2,876
views
92
Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
2,786
views
93
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
2,770
views
94
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
2,769
views
95
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
2,762
views
96
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
2,735
views
97
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
2,732
views
98
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
2,715
views
99
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
2,692
views
100
Bernhard Caesar Einstein
American physicist (1930-2008)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
2,669
views