Trending Physicists — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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12,511,784
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
718,682
views
views
2
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
533,607
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
485,128
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
449,063
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
447,671
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
444,566
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
378,730
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
357,849
views
views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
327,612
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
298,387
views
views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
266,147
views
views
12
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
250,334
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
245,442
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
229,276
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
219,786
views
views
16
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
218,746
views
views
17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
193,688
views
views
18
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
179,698
views
views
19
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
175,664
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
159,663
views
views
21
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
159,054
views
views
22
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
152,475
views
views
23
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
144,832
views
views
24
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
140,353
views
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
139,341
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
131,604
views
views
27
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
129,932
views
views
28
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
129,762
views
views
29
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
128,883
views
views
30
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
126,851
views
views
31
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
123,529
views
views
32
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
117,176
views
views
33
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
111,493
views
views
34
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
108,277
views
views
35
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
103,240
views
views
36
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
102,164
views
views
37
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
101,297
views
views
38
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
95,931
views
views
39
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
94,016
views
views
40
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
92,394
views
views
41
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
90,305
views
views
42
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
89,969
views
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
88,036
views
views
44
Jesús Maria Tarriba
First Gentleman of Mexico
87,886
views
views
45
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
86,318
views
views
46
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
86,315
views
views
47
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
84,072
views
views
48
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
75,407
views
views
49
William Nicholas Hitchon
British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series
75,369
views
views
50
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
74,908
views
views
51
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
74,551
views
views
52
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
74,281
views
views
53
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
71,564
views
views
54
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
70,311
views
views
55
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
69,519
views
views
56
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
69,411
views
views
57
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
68,812
views
views
58
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
65,339
views
views
59
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
64,414
views
views
60
Sasquatch
fictional character in Marvel Comics
63,745
views
views
61
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
63,673
views
views
62
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
63,457
views
views
63
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
63,284
views
views
64
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
63,015
views
views
65
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
62,949
views
views
66
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
62,398
views
views
67
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
61,911
views
views
68
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
60,753
views
views
69
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
58,359
views
views
70
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
56,714
views
views
71
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
56,223
views
views
72
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
55,634
views
views
73
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
52,677
views
views
74
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
52,599
views
views
75
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
52,288
views
views
76
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
50,593
views
views
77
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
48,185
views
views
78
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
47,977
views
views
79
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
47,915
views
views
80
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
47,815
views
views
81
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
47,157
views
views
82
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
47,039
views
views
83
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
46,215
views
views
84
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
46,022
views
views
85
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
43,588
views
views
86
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
43,535
views
views
87
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
43,476
views
views
88
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
42,901
views
views
89
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
42,192
views
views
90
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
41,955
views
views
91
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
41,587
views
views
92
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
41,453
views
views
93
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
40,787
views
views
94
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
40,585
views
views
95
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
40,468
views
views
96
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
39,880
views
views
97
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
39,290
views
views
98
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
38,808
views
views
99
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
37,154
views
views
100
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
36,398
views
views