Top Scientists

The most publicly visible scientists worldwide.

655 people indexed·93 currently rising·Top: Elon Musk

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Top scientists globally on Fame.am — 655 ranked, top: Elon Musk. Coverage spans 18 countries.

Category: Scientists
Total ranked: 655
Top person: Elon Musk
Countries covered: 18

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X. Founder of Neuralink, xAI	United States	Founders	99.0	12.9
#2	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	—	Historical Figures	82.7	10.0
#3	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer Acting	United States	Scientists	72.3	5.1
#4	new	Nikola Tesla Acting	—	Scientists	69.0	1.2
#5	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	—	Historical Figures	67.2	10.6
#6	new	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	10.8
#7	new	Alan Turing	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.4	10.3
#8	new	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Historical Figures	58.7	0.0
#9	new	Archimedes	—	Scientists	57.9	11.2
#10	new	Thomas Edison Lighting	United States	Scientists	57.0	1.1
#11	new	Carl Linnaeus	Sweden	Scientists	56.1	14.4
#12	new	Carl Friedrich Gauss	—	Scientists	56.0	11.9
#13	new	Galileo Galilei Crew	—	Scientists	55.1	0.0
#14	new	Leonhard Euler	—	Scientists	54.9	27.3
#15	new	Ada Lovelace	—	Scientists	54.6	10.1
#16	new	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	54.3	10.0
#17	new	Charles Darwin Acting	—	Scientists	54.0	0.0
#18	new	Henry Ford	United States	Scientists	53.9	10.4
#19	new	Nicolaus Copernicus	—	Scientists	53.4	1.7
#20	new	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	53.1	4.0
#21	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Scientists	52.5	13.0
#22	new	Richard Dawkins	United Kingdom	Scientists	52.4	5.6
#23	new	Isaac Newton	—	Scientists	51.7	0.0
#24	new	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	51.4	11.2
#25	new	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	50.3	10.0
#26	new	Roger Penrose	United Kingdom	Scientists	49.5	13.2
#27	new	Paul Erdős	—	Scientists	48.4	8.5
#28	new	Jimmy Wales	United States	Scientists	47.3	12.3
#29	new	Srinivasa Ramanujan	—	Scientists	46.8	1.3
#30	new	Enrico Fermi	—	Scientists	46.5	10.0
#31	new	Charles Babbage	—	Scientists	46.1	10.7
#32	new	Neil deGrasse Tyson	United States	Scientists	45.3	1.0
#33	new	Alexander Grothendieck	France	Scientists	45.3	12.6
#34	new	Paul Dirac	United Kingdom	Scientists	45.2	11.9
#35	new	Johannes Gutenberg	—	Scientists	45.1	0.7
#36	new	Blaise Pascal	—	Scientists	42.8	0.0
#37	new	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	42.7	11.1
#38	new	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	—	Scientists	42.7	0.0
#39	new	Valery Legasov	—	Scientists	42.4	0.0
#40	new	Rachel Carson	United States	Scientists	42.3	9.6
#41	new	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	—	Scientists	42.2	0.0
#42	new	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	41.1	0.0
#43	new	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	40.9	0.0
#44	new	John von Neumann	—	Scientists	40.8	0.3
#45	new	Rudolf Diesel	—	Scientists	40.7	6.3
#46	new	Konrad Zuse	Germany	Scientists	40.5	5.2
#47	new	Werner Heisenberg	Germany	Scientists	40.2	0.3
#48	new	John Stith Pemberton	United States	Scientists	40.2	16.0
#49	new	Dian Fossey	United States	Scientists	40.1	0.0
#50	new	Hypatia	—	Scientists	39.5	0.9
#51	new	Joan Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	39.3	13.6
#52	new	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	38.8	1.8
#53	new	Tu Youyou	China	Scientists	38.7	12.9
#54	new	Alfred Nobel	Sweden	Scientists	38.6	1.3
#55	new	John McCarthy	United States	Scientists	38.3	3.9
#56	new	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	Scientists	37.9	0.0
#57	new	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	36.8	0.0
#58	new	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	36.8	5.3
#59	new	Edward Teller	—	Scientists	35.6	0.1
#60	new	Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan	Scientists	35.5	8.1
#61	new	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Scientists	34.7	2.8
#62	new	Adolphe Sax	—	Scientists	34.4	9.2
#63	new	Rosalind Franklin	—	Scientists	34.3	0.0
#64	new	Igor Sikorsky	—	Scientists	34.1	4.7
#65	new	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	34.0	1.1
#66	new	Michael Faraday	—	Scientists	33.8	0.2
#67	new	Norbert Wiener	United States	Scientists	33.8	3.6
#68	new	Claude Shannon	United States	Scientists	33.8	0.0
#69	new	Fritz Haber	Germany	Scientists	33.8	0.6
#70	new	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	33.6	13.8
#71	new	James Clerk Maxwell	—	Scientists	33.6	1.0
#72	new	Niels Bohr	—	Scientists	33.5	0.0
#73	new	Giordano Bruno	—	Scientists	33.4	0.0
#74	new	Johannes Kepler	—	Scientists	33.1	0.0
#75	new	Erwin Schrödinger	—	Scientists	33.1	0.0
#76	new	Paul Langevin	France	Scientists	32.8	5.0
#77	new	Tycho Brahe	—	Scientists	32.7	1.0
#78	new	Emmy Noether	—	Scientists	32.6	1.4
#79	new	Gregor Mendel	—	Scientists	32.5	0.0
#80	new	Alexander Fleming	United Kingdom	Scientists	32.5	0.0
#81	new	Euclid	—	Scientists	32.5	0.4
#82	new	John Logie Baird	United Kingdom	Scientists	32.4	15.0
#83	new	Ptolemy	—	Scientists	32.1	0.0
#84	new	Karl Benz	—	Scientists	31.5	1.3
#85	new	Hermann Minkowski	—	Scientists	31.5	14.2
#86	new	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	—	Scientists	31.4	10.0
#87	new	Max Planck	—	Scientists	31.2	0.0
#88	new	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	31.0	1.7
#89	new	Dmitri Mendeleev	—	Scientists	31.0	0.5
#90	new	Kurt Gödel	United States	Scientists	30.7	0.0
#91	new	George Washington Carver	United States	Scientists	30.6	0.0
#92	new	Hans Bethe	—	Scientists	30.5	3.3
#93	new	Pierre Curie	France	Scientists	30.5	0.0
#94	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	30.4	18.6
#95	new	Ibn al-Haytham	—	Scientists	30.1	1.9
#96	new	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	30.1	5.5
#97	new	Wilhelm Röntgen	Germany	Scientists	30.0	0.8
#98	new	Ja'far al-Sadiq	—	Scientists	29.9	4.2
#99	new	Max Born	—	Scientists	29.7	0.9
#100	new	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	29.2	4.4

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