Trending Physicists — all time
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: J. Robert Oppenheimer. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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6,189,377
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
343,551
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
324,899
views
views
3
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
268,914
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
228,246
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
210,370
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
190,805
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
182,367
views
views
8
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
161,491
views
views
9
Cleo
pseudonym of an mathematician
153,678
views
views
10
Peter Hegemann
German biophysicist
152,506
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
134,303
views
views
12
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
128,920
views
views
13
Georg Nagel
German biophysicist, botanist und university professor
126,944
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
109,079
views
views
15
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
106,822
views
views
16
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
106,254
views
views
17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
103,479
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
93,801
views
views
19
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
86,418
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
85,939
views
views
21
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
85,455
views
views
22
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
81,875
views
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
79,999
views
views
24
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
70,211
views
views
25
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
70,018
views
views
26
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
68,123
views
views
27
Mary Archer
British chemist (born 1944)
64,074
views
views
28
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
64,036
views
views
29
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
63,290
views
views
30
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
59,689
views
views
31
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
59,008
views
views
32
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
54,655
views
views
33
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
53,757
views
views
34
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
53,520
views
views
35
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
51,733
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
49,927
views
views
37
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
47,373
views
views
38
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
47,136
views
views
39
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
47,032
views
views
40
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
46,252
views
views
41
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
44,631
views
views
42
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
43,965
views
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
43,439
views
views
44
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
43,415
views
views
45
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
42,200
views
views
46
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
41,643
views
views
47
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
40,501
views
views
48
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
49
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
39,685
views
views
50
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
39,370
views
views
51
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
37,896
views
views
52
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
35,130
views
views
53
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
34,290
views
views
54
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
34,243
views
views
55
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
33,930
views
views
56
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
32,863
views
views
57
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
31,385
views
views
58
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
31,317
views
views
59
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
31,305
views
views
60
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
29,682
views
views
61
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
28,559
views
views
62
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
28,108
views
views
63
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
28,062
views
views
64
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
27,809
views
views
65
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
27,781
views
views
66
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
27,334
views
views
67
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
27,119
views
views
68
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
27,113
views
views
69
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
26,737
views
views
70
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
26,290
views
views
71
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
25,830
views
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
25,295
views
views
73
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
24,866
views
views
74
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
24,128
views
views
75
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
23,874
views
views
76
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
23,772
views
views
77
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
23,175
views
views
78
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
22,961
views
views
79
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
22,535
views
views
80
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
22,451
views
views
81
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
22,412
views
views
82
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
22,259
views
views
83
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
22,193
views
views
84
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
21,955
views
views
85
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
21,718
views
views
86
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
21,476
views
views
87
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
21,357
views
views
88
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
21,316
views
views
89
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
20,954
views
views
90
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
20,729
views
views
91
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
20,572
views
views
92
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
20,101
views
views
93
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
19,766
views
views
94
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
19,702
views
views
95
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
19,179
views
views
96
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
19,142
views
views
97
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
18,942
views
views
98
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
18,802
views
views
99
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
18,178
views
views
100
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
18,131
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