Trending Physicists — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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2,010,063
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
128,620
views
views
2
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
87,589
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
86,657
views
views
4
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
83,867
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
80,852
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
62,968
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
61,227
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
47,728
views
views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
46,323
views
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
43,703
views
views
11
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
42,417
views
views
12
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
37,317
views
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
36,927
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
36,805
views
views
15
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
31,988
views
views
16
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
30,479
views
views
17
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
29,203
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
28,703
views
views
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
26,560
views
views
20
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
26,092
views
views
21
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
24,919
views
views
22
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
24,087
views
views
23
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
23,552
views
views
24
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
23,331
views
views
25
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
22,177
views
views
26
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
21,399
views
views
27
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
20,241
views
views
28
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
19,895
views
views
29
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
19,701
views
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
19,667
views
views
31
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
18,927
views
views
32
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
18,744
views
views
33
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
18,306
views
views
34
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
17,390
views
views
35
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
16,668
views
views
36
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
16,238
views
views
37
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
15,796
views
views
38
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
15,789
views
views
39
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
15,614
views
views
40
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
15,363
views
views
41
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
15,139
views
views
42
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
14,843
views
views
43
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
14,672
views
views
44
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
14,161
views
views
45
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
14,146
views
views
46
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,816
views
views
47
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
13,786
views
views
48
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
13,069
views
views
49
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
12,911
views
views
50
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
12,844
views
views
51
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
12,488
views
views
52
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
12,160
views
views
53
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,941
views
views
54
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
11,836
views
views
55
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
11,767
views
views
56
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
11,694
views
views
57
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
11,516
views
views
58
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
11,184
views
views
59
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
11,158
views
views
60
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
10,720
views
views
61
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
10,425
views
views
62
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
10,168
views
views
63
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
10,065
views
views
64
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
9,891
views
views
65
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
9,493
views
views
66
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
9,434
views
views
67
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
8,787
views
views
68
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
8,761
views
views
69
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
8,640
views
views
70
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
8,569
views
views
71
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
8,341
views
views
72
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
8,341
views
views
73
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
8,155
views
views
74
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
8,022
views
views
75
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
7,948
views
views
76
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
7,881
views
views
77
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
7,783
views
views
78
Harald Lesch
German physicist
7,765
views
views
79
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
7,527
views
views
80
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
7,525
views
views
81
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
7,385
views
views
82
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
7,358
views
views
83
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
7,352
views
views
84
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
7,347
views
views
85
Igor Kurchatov
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)
7,190
views
views
86
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,181
views
views
87
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
7,138
views
views
88
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
7,103
views
views
89
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
6,981
views
views
90
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
6,978
views
views
91
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
6,933
views
views
92
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
6,628
views
views
93
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
6,612
views
views
94
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
6,543
views
views
95
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
6,516
views
views
96
Leon Theremin
Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
6,423
views
views
97
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
6,347
views
views
98
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
6,346
views
views
99
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
6,270
views
views
100
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
6,231
views
views