United Kingdom · Scientists

Top 100 Scientists in United Kingdom

The most publicly visible scientists in United Kingdom.

Most famous

The most famous scientists in United Kingdom right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

United KingdomScientists1,034 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Charles Darwin	United Kingdom	Scientists	94.3	0.2
#2	—	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	90.6	0.0
#3	—	James Cook	United Kingdom	Scientists	89.6	10.0
#4	—	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.6	10.0
#5	—	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.4	0.0
#6	—	Michael Faraday	United Kingdom	Scientists	82.4	0.0
#7	—	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	79.0	0.0
#8	—	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.5	15.0
#9	—	David Attenborough	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.4	0.0
#10	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#11	—	Ed Stafford	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.7	4.2
#12	—	Arthur C. Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.5	0.4
#13	—	Francis Drake	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.0	0.0
#14	—	Bear Grylls	United Kingdom	Scientists	71.9	0.0
#15	—	J. J. Thomson	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	0.6
#16	—	Ellen MacArthur	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	1.0
#17	—	James Dyson	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.7	0.0
#18	—	Humphry Davy	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.5	10.4
#19	—	Rosalind Franklin	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.2	0.0
#20	—	John Dalton	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.5	0.0
#21	—	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#22	—	Thomas Henry Huxley	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	0.9
#23	—	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	10.0
#24	—	William Ramsay	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.5	10.0
#25	—	David Livingstone	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.2	0.3
#26	—	William Bradford Shockley	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.1	3.0
#27	—	Robert Falcon Scott	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.7	14.7
#28	—	Dorothy Hodgkin	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.5	0.0
#29	—	Jony Ive British designer, ex-Chief Design Officer at Apple	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.1	10.0
#30	—	John Herschel	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.0	4.1
#31	—	William Henry Bragg	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.6	0.0
#32	—	Francis Crick	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.6	0.0
#33	—	Richard E. Grant	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.0	4.9
#34	—	Thomas Young	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	0.7
#35	—	George Mallory	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.0	7.7
#36	—	Andrew Irvine	United Kingdom	Scientists	62.1	23.3
#37	—	Merlin Sheldrake	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.9	0.0
#38	—	Frederick Sanger	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.8	0.0
#39	—	Edward Victor Appleton	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.7	2.1
#40	—	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#41	—	Percy Fawcett	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.9	14.0
#42	—	Frederick Soddy	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.5	0.8
#43	—	Gertrude Bell	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.4	7.4
#44	—	Jon Pertwee	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.0	19.4
#45	—	John Logie Baird	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.9	0.2
#46	—	Karl Bushby	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.8	16.3
#47	—	George Paget Thomson	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.5	0.2
#48	—	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.4	0.0
#49	—	Charles Glover Barkla	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.3	1.0
#50	—	Andre Geim	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.3	1.9
#51	—	John Douglas Cockcroft	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.2	0.0
#52	—	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.2	6.1
#53	—	George Stephenson	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.1	0.0
#54	—	Sylvester McCoy	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.1	4.8
#55	—	Walter Raleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.9	0.0
#56	—	Brian Josephson	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.8	0.2
#57	—	Henry Moseley	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.7	8.4
#58	—	C. F. Powell	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.7	3.2
#59	—	Owen Willans Richardson	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.6	0.0
#60	—	Mary Wortley Montagu	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.6	24.0
#61	—	Charles K. Kao	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.3	0.0
#62	—	John Fisher	United Kingdom	Scientists	58.1	5.8
#63	—	Richard Francis Burton	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#64	—	Martin Ryle	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#65	—	George Vancouver	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	3.7
#66	—	Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	15.0
#67	—	Francis William Aston	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.7	0.0
#68	—	John Harrison	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.6	7.1
#69	—	Antony Hewish	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.4	0.0
#70	—	Lawrence Oates	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.2	7.1
#71	—	Martin Frobisher	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.1	8.3
#72	—	Roma Agrawal	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.0	1.9
#73	—	Rupert Sheldrake	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.9	1.6
#74	—	William Adams	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.9	0.0
#75	—	Colin Baker	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.8	2.3
#76	—	Peter Atkins	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.7	23.1
#77	—	John Smith	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.6	0.0
#78	—	Robert Brown	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.4	0.5
#79	—	Millvina Dean	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.4	0.0
#80	—	J. D. Bernal	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.3	6.3
#81	—	James Dewar	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.2	15.0
#82	—	John Ray	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.2	5.1
#83	—	Ian Wilmut	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.1	11.9
#84	—	Richard Owen	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.1	0.0
#85	—	Norman Haworth	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.1	10.9
#86	—	Jethro Tull	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	6.0
#87	—	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	0.1
#88	—	Ranulph Fiennes	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	0.0
#89	—	John Rolfe	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	1.7
#90	—	John Franklin	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	0.3
#91	—	David J. Thouless	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.0	0.0
#92	—	William Carey	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.9	3.2
#93	—	Matthew Flinders	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.8	3.7
#94	—	William Bateson	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.6	8.0
#95	—	Thomas Savery	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.6	15.0
#96	—	Thérèse Coffey	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.5	5.9
#97	—	Andrew Huxley	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.5	0.0
#98	—	Freya Madeline Stark	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.5	6.5
#99	—	William Prout	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.5	10.0
#100	—	Joseph Paxton	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.5	10.1

Refine by tag

← United Kingdom