Trending Physicists in Russia — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Gennady Zyuganov. Data as of 24 October 2026.
- Source
- Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
- Window
- the 12 months to October 2026 · Data as of 24 October 2026
- Showing
- 100 physicists — drawn from 2,245,125 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Russian-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Russia. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
Where this data comes from ›100
Ranked
858,592
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
60,209
views
views
2
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
37,652
views
views
3
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
32,682
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
27,561
views
views
5
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
25,058
views
views
6
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
22,148
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
19,758
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
19,447
views
views
9
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
19,297
views
views
10
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
19,292
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
19,221
views
views
12
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
18,227
views
views
13
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
18,199
views
views
14
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
17,737
views
views
15
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
16,780
views
views
16
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
16,218
views
views
17
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
16,132
views
views
18
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
16,027
views
views
19
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
15,920
views
views
20
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
15,821
views
views
21
Mikhail Kovalchuk
Russian physicist and politician
15,031
views
views
22
Artem Oganov
Russian crystallographer, chemist and materials scientist
13,748
views
views
23
Igor Kurchatov
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)
11,289
views
views
24
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
11,272
views
views
25
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
10,468
views
views
26
Pyotr Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
10,190
views
views
27
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
9,772
views
views
28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,341
views
views
29
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
9,093
views
views
30
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
8,987
views
views
31
Yury Kovalchuk
Russian businessman and financier
8,092
views
views
32
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
8,047
views
views
33
Alexander Gorodnitsky
Russian bard and poet (born 1933)
7,413
views
views
34
Alexander Pushnoy
Russian musician, presenter, showman
7,149
views
views
35
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,986
views
views
36
Sergey Shpilkin
Russian physicist, statistician and translator
6,943
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
6,910
views
views
38
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
6,634
views
views
39
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,376
views
views
40
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
6,189
views
views
41
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
5,969
views
views
42
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
5,822
views
views
43
Stanislaw Shushkievich
Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician (1934—2022)
5,712
views
views
44
Sergey Kapitsa
Soviet and Russian physicist, TV host (1928-2012)
5,600
views
views
45
Alexey Semihatov
Russian mathematician (born 1959)
5,571
views
views
46
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
5,088
views
views
47
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
5,052
views
views
48
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,020
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,946
views
views
50
Aleksandr Popov
Russian physicist (1859–1906)
4,855
views
views
51
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
4,850
views
views
52
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
4,675
views
views
53
Alexander Volkov
Russian writer, professor of mathematics (1891–1977)
4,621
views
views
54
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
4,395
views
views
55
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
4,297
views
views
56
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,239
views
views
57
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
4,218
views
views
58
Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
Ukrainian musician, politician and activist (born 1975)
4,214
views
views
59
Leon Theremin
Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
4,207
views
views
60
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
4,157
views
views
61
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
4,090
views
views
62
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
4,047
views
views
63
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
4,047
views
views
64
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
4,039
views
views
65
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
3,990
views
views
66
Dmitry Kobylkin
Russian politician
3,954
views
views
67
Vladimir Shukhov
Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
3,916
views
views
68
Alexander Vasserman
Soviet and Ukrainian thermophysist (1931-2021)
3,793
views
views
69
Sergey Nikitin
Russian musician and physicist
3,776
views
views
70
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
3,764
views
views
71
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
3,424
views
views
72
Boris Stern
Russian astrophysicist and journalist
3,365
views
views
73
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
3,353
views
views
74
Mstislav Keldysh
Soviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978)
3,340
views
views
75
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,261
views
views
76
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
Soviet physicist (1903-1994)
3,182
views
views
77
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,156
views
views
78
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
3,150
views
views
79
Nikita A. Tolstoy
Russian physicist (1917–1994)
3,102
views
views
80
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
3,101
views
views
81
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
3,069
views
views
82
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
3,053
views
views
83
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
3,049
views
views
84
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
3,014
views
views
85
Vladimir Fyodorov
Russian actor (1939–2021)
2,986
views
views
86
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
2,904
views
views
87
Abram Ioffe
Soviet physicist (1880–1960)
2,902
views
views
88
Sergey Kurginyan
Russian scientist
2,861
views
views
89
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
2,825
views
views
90
Yakov Perelman
Russian science writer (1882–1942)
2,753
views
views
91
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
2,748
views
views
92
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
2,746
views
views
93
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,743
views
views
94
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
2,737
views
views
95
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
2,694
views
views
96
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
2,623
views
views
97
Yuri Oganessian
Russian nuclear physicist
2,592
views
views
98
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
Russian astronomer/astrophysicist (1908–1983)
2,575
views
views
99
Yuri Milner
Russian entrepreneur and physicist
2,523
views
views
100
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
2,521
views
views