Trending Chemists in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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5,256,179
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
306,876
views
views
2
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
281,860
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
274,269
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
271,756
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
268,832
views
views
6
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
223,485
views
views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
201,652
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
162,042
views
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
128,108
views
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
97,298
views
views
11
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
83,777
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
82,556
views
views
13
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
79,912
views
views
14
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
79,534
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
71,923
views
views
16
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
68,618
views
views
17
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
63,353
views
views
18
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
62,860
views
views
19
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
61,964
views
views
20
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
61,229
views
views
21
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
61,145
views
views
22
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
60,202
views
views
23
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
59,726
views
views
24
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
58,991
views
views
25
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
55,215
views
views
26
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
52,085
views
views
27
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
48,738
views
views
28
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
47,956
views
views
29
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
46,879
views
views
30
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
46,037
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
43,817
views
views
32
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
41,952
views
views
33
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
41,713
views
views
34
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
41,488
views
views
35
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
41,156
views
views
36
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
40,076
views
views
37
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
39,234
views
views
38
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
38,129
views
views
39
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
37,887
views
views
40
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
37,839
views
views
41
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
37,160
views
views
42
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
36,526
views
views
43
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
36,422
views
views
44
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
35,187
views
views
45
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
33,591
views
views
46
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
32,670
views
views
47
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
32,555
views
views
48
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
31,965
views
views
49
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
30,636
views
views
50
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
30,597
views
views
51
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
30,458
views
views
52
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
30,299
views
views
53
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
29,445
views
views
54
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
28,650
views
views
55
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
28,438
views
views
56
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
28,358
views
views
57
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
28,043
views
views
58
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
27,040
views
views
59
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
25,482
views
views
60
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
24,509
views
views
61
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
24,374
views
views
62
Rake Yohn
American television personality
23,849
views
views
63
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
23,731
views
views
64
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
23,293
views
views
65
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
22,926
views
views
66
Mohammad Salman Hamdani
Pakistani American police cadet, first responder and victim of 9/11 attacks (1977–2001)
22,381
views
views
67
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
21,836
views
views
68
Peter Douglas
American film producer
21,665
views
views
69
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
21,659
views
views
70
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
21,330
views
views
71
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
21,323
views
views
72
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
21,000
views
views
73
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
20,439
views
views
74
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
20,431
views
views
75
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
19,637
views
views
76
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
19,303
views
views
77
Arthur D. Levinson
American molecular biologist, biochemist and chairman of Apple Inc. (born 1950)
19,096
views
views
78
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
18,990
views
views
79
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
18,930
views
views
80
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
18,693
views
views
81
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
18,499
views
views
82
John Michael Jumper
American chemist and AI expert
18,144
views
views
83
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
18,139
views
views
84
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
17,873
views
views
85
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
17,846
views
views
86
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
17,718
views
views
87
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
17,698
views
views
88
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
17,507
views
views
89
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
17,429
views
views
90
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)
17,276
views
views
91
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
17,079
views
views
92
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
16,976
views
views
93
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
16,953
views
views
94
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
16,674
views
views
95
Mark Whitacre
American chief executive and money launderer
16,569
views
views
96
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
16,540
views
views
97
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
15,971
views
views
98
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
15,458
views
views
99
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
15,437
views
views
100
Humphry Davy
British chemist
15,307
views
views
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