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Trending Physicists in USA this year

The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.

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Country 🌍 Global πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Germany πŸ‡«πŸ‡· France πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ Spain πŸ‡§πŸ‡· Brazil πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russia πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China
1
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
137,816
views
2
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
107,650
views
3
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
74,086
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
64,954
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
64,829
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
59,303
views
7
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
54,484
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
54,182
views
9
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
54,095
views
10
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
50,685
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
44,857
views
12
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
39,703
views
13
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
39,140
views
14
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
38,014
views
15
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
37,536
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
34,849
views
17
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
34,650
views
18
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
31,897
views
19
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
31,432
views
20
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
31,346
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
27,725
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
26,198
views
23
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
25,777
views
24
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
23,535
views
25
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
22,552
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
22,073
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
20,211
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
19,255
views
29
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
18,951
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
18,554
views
31
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
18,136
views
32
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
17,935
views
33
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
17,872
views
34
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
17,582
views
35
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
17,186
views
36
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
16,143
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
15,595
views
38
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
14,025
views
39
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
13,703
views
40
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
13,666
views
41
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
13,395
views
42
Steven Hawley
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
12,631
views
43
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
12,121
views
44
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
11,762
views
45
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
11,708
views
46
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
11,679
views
47
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
11,660
views
48
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
11,564
views
49
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
11,507
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
11,493
views
51
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
11,348
views
52
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
11,221
views
53
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
10,438
views
54
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
10,266
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
10,238
views
56
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
10,205
views
57
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
9,782
views
58
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
9,375
views
59
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
9,187
views
60
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
9,129
views
61
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
9,094
views
62
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
9,006
views
63
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
8,884
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
8,556
views
65
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
8,431
views
66
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
8,279
views
67
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
8,221
views
68
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
8,012
views
69
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
7,790
views
70
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
7,743
views
71
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
7,711
views
72
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
7,684
views
73
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
7,563
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
7,538
views
75
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
7,438
views
76
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
7,227
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
7,115
views
78
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
7,107
views
79
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977–2025)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
6,989
views
80
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
6,881
views
81
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
6,804
views
82
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
6,784
views
83
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
6,600
views
84
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
6,557
views
85
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
6,512
views
86
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
6,506
views
87
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
6,431
views
88
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
6,311
views
89
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
6,121
views
90
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
5,967
views
91
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
5,955
views
92
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
πŸ“š 69 citations Person
5,954
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
5,860
views
94
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
5,847
views
95
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
5,789
views
96
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
5,744
views
97
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
5,692
views
98
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
5,538
views
99
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
5,489
views
100
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
5,485
views