Trending Chemists in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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3,121,094
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
172,020
views
views
2
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
168,737
views
views
3
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
167,257
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
167,093
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
165,189
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
115,932
views
views
7
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
98,159
views
views
8
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
91,505
views
views
9
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
73,790
views
views
10
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
64,487
views
views
11
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
55,847
views
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
51,068
views
views
13
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
46,590
views
views
14
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
43,886
views
views
15
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
43,362
views
views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
43,246
views
views
17
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
39,332
views
views
18
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
39,079
views
views
19
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
38,283
views
views
20
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
37,975
views
views
21
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
37,521
views
views
22
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
37,077
views
views
23
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
35,550
views
views
24
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
35,461
views
views
25
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
32,472
views
views
26
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
29,203
views
views
27
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
28,884
views
views
28
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
28,803
views
views
29
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
27,472
views
views
30
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
27,224
views
views
31
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
26,346
views
views
32
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
26,308
views
views
33
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
25,600
views
views
34
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
25,318
views
views
35
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
25,011
views
views
36
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
24,092
views
views
37
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
24,068
views
views
38
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
23,699
views
views
39
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
23,049
views
views
40
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
22,836
views
views
41
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
22,704
views
views
42
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
21,996
views
views
43
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
20,853
views
views
44
Mohammad Salman Hamdani
Pakistani American police cadet, first responder and victim of 9/11 attacks (1977–2001)
20,614
views
views
45
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
20,399
views
views
46
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
20,180
views
views
47
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
20,155
views
views
48
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
19,732
views
views
49
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
19,234
views
views
50
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
19,083
views
views
51
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
18,920
views
views
52
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
18,658
views
views
53
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
18,258
views
views
54
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
18,174
views
views
55
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
17,919
views
views
56
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
17,204
views
views
57
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
17,047
views
views
58
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
16,681
views
views
59
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
16,494
views
views
60
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
16,233
views
views
61
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
14,900
views
views
62
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
14,573
views
views
63
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
14,280
views
views
64
Arthur D. Levinson
American molecular biologist, biochemist and chairman of Apple Inc. (born 1950)
14,265
views
views
65
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
13,958
views
views
66
Mark Whitacre
American chief executive and money launderer
13,789
views
views
67
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
13,130
views
views
68
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
13,106
views
views
69
Peter Douglas
American film producer
13,005
views
views
70
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
12,691
views
views
71
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
12,534
views
views
72
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
12,276
views
views
73
Eric Betzig
American physicist
11,833
views
views
74
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
11,819
views
views
75
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
11,630
views
views
76
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
11,604
views
views
77
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
11,434
views
views
78
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
11,295
views
views
79
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
11,057
views
views
80
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
11,022
views
views
81
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
10,946
views
views
82
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
10,924
views
views
83
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
10,772
views
views
84
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
10,757
views
views
85
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)
10,743
views
views
86
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
10,489
views
views
87
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
10,010
views
views
88
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
9,969
views
views
89
Frauke Petry
German politician
9,946
views
views
90
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
9,720
views
views
91
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
9,707
views
views
92
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
9,673
views
views
93
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
9,493
views
views
94
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
9,474
views
views
95
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
9,434
views
views
96
Humphry Davy
British chemist
9,261
views
views
97
John Michael Jumper
American chemist and AI expert
9,222
views
views
98
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
9,188
views
views
99
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
8,950
views
views
100
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
8,846
views
views
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