Trending Geologists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed geologists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Thomas Jefferson.
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Ranked
646,628
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
98,071
views
views
2
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874β1964)
49,251
views
views
3
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
43,059
views
views
4
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
37,253
views
views
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
21,069
views
views
6
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707β1778)
20,607
views
views
7
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
16,390
views
views
8
Alice Roberts
English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author
14,708
views
views
9
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
14,462
views
views
10
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943β2024)
13,918
views
views
11
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
13,519
views
views
12
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
13,373
views
views
13
John Hickenlooper
American politician, businessman and the 42nd Governor of Colorado (born 1952)
12,624
views
views
14
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
11,901
views
views
15
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
9,372
views
views
16
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
8,803
views
views
17
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
8,654
views
views
18
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799β1847)
7,798
views
views
19
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949β1980)
7,557
views
views
20
Robert Ballard
United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist
6,653
views
views
21
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
6,610
views
views
22
Ross Geller
fictional character from Friends
6,255
views
views
23
Tommy Oliver
fictional character
6,151
views
views
24
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
5,715
views
views
25
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941β2002)
5,576
views
views
26
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
5,473
views
views
27
Alan Grant
fictional character from Jurassic Park
5,429
views
views
28
George de Mohrenschildt
Russian-born American geologist, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911-1977)
4,775
views
views
29
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
4,642
views
views
30
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922β1995)
4,410
views
views
31
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
4,392
views
views
32
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
4,325
views
views
33
Humphry Davy
British chemist
4,301
views
views
34
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
4,088
views
views
35
Franz Nopcsa von FelsΕ-SzilvΓ‘s
Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)
4,087
views
views
36
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
4,030
views
views
37
Barry Voight
American geologist
3,879
views
views
38
Jin Yuzhang
Heir to Chinese throne
3,808
views
views
39
Scott W. Tinker
American geologist
3,731
views
views
40
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
3,606
views
views
41
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
3,255
views
views
42
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
3,217
views
views
43
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
3,192
views
views
44
Louis Leakey
kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
3,092
views
views
45
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
3,087
views
views
46
Ellie Sattler
Jurassic Park character
3,066
views
views
47
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769β1832)
3,046
views
views
48
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 β 1840)
3,025
views
views
49
Jack Horner
American paleontologist (born 1946 )
2,958
views
views
50
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,889
views
views
51
William Smith
English geologist
2,886
views
views
52
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,866
views
views
53
James Smithson
British chemist
2,702
views
views
54
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
2,670
views
views
55
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
2,663
views
views
56
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
2,555
views
views
57
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
2,510
views
views
58
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
2,500
views
views
59
Randy Marsh
fictional character from South Park
2,402
views
views
60
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804β1892)
2,353
views
views
61
Ulysses S. Grant IV
American geologist and paleontologist (1893-1977)
2,314
views
views
62
John Strong Newberry
American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822β1892)
2,225
views
views
63
SebastiΓ£o JosΓ© de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699β1782)
2,184
views
views
64
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807β1873)
2,150
views
views
65
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
2,113
views
views
66
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780β1872)
2,096
views
views
67
Laszlo Toth
Australian geologist known for vandalism (1938β2012)
2,081
views
views
68
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,953
views
views
69
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840β1897)
1,917
views
views
70
Beatriz Flamini
Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer
1,845
views
views
71
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1,771
views
views
72
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
1,733
views
views
73
Ian Plimer
Australian geologist
1,704
views
views
74
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797β1875)
1,699
views
views
75
Harry Glicken
American geologist (1958-1991)
1,684
views
views
76
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
1,663
views
views
77
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
1,653
views
views
78
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
1,646
views
views
79
Alexander Heron
geologist, explorer (1884-1971)
1,578
views
views
80
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
1,573
views
views
81
Carmen Gaina
professor at University of Oslo
1,546
views
views
82
Wes Hildreth
American continental geologist
1,542
views
views
83
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
1,518
views
views
84
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist (1831β1899)
1,503
views
views
85
Nigel Anstey
British seismologist
1,479
views
views
86
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,476
views
views
87
William Hamilton
Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologistΒ (1730-1803)
1,434
views
views
88
James Parkinson
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
1,434
views
views
89
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
1,433
views
views
90
Milutin MilankoviΔ
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879β1958)
1,405
views
views
91
JosΓ© Bonaparte
Argentine paleontologist (1928β2020)
1,395
views
views
92
Mykola Azarov
Ukrainian politician (born 1947)
1,379
views
views
93
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819β1888)
1,344
views
views
94
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher (1900β1970)
1,321
views
views
95
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
1,272
views
views
96
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
1,270
views
views
97
Pete Ross
fictional character(s) in the DC universe
1,266
views
views
98
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
1,259
views
views
99
Farouk Al-Kasim
Norwegian geologist
1,258
views
views
100
Tony Hayward
British businessman
1,253
views
views
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