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The most followed scientists

The scientists with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.

  1. 1Elon Musk
    Elon Musk213.0M
  2. 2Destin Sandlin
    Destin Sandlin11.9M
  3. 3Julio Ríos Gallego
    Julio Ríos Gallego5.1M
  4. 4Forrest Galante
    Forrest Galante2.8M
  5. 5Walter Lewin
    Walter Lewin1.8M
  6. 6Sabine Hossenfelder
    Sabine Hossenfelder1.8M
  7. 7William S. Hammack
    William S. Hammack1.6M
  8. 8H. C. Verma
    H. C. Verma1.1M
  9. 9Phil Mason
    Phil Mason1.1M
  10. 10Oleg Artemyev
    Oleg Artemyev922K
  11. 11Mike Horn
    Mike Horn857K
  12. 12Vivek Ramaswamy
    Vivek Ramaswamy809K
  13. 13Wojciech Cejrowski
    Wojciech Cejrowski802K
  14. 14Bruce Lipton
    Bruce Lipton620K
  15. 15Nidhal Guessoum
    Nidhal Guessoum574K
  16. 16Bret Weinstein
    Bret Weinstein545K
  17. 17Zaghloul El-Naggar
    Zaghloul El-Naggar498K
  18. 18Alexander Y. Panchin
    Alexander Y. Panchin496K
  19. 19David A. Sinclair
    David A. Sinclair460K
  20. 20Jean-Marc Jancovici
    Jean-Marc Jancovici303K
  21. 21Aurélien Barrau
    Aurélien Barrau292K
  22. 22Paul Stamets
    Paul Stamets271K
  23. 23Andrey Piontkovsky
    Andrey Piontkovsky266K
  24. 24Sean M. Carroll
    Sean M. Carroll257K
  25. 25Shiva Ayyadurai
    Shiva Ayyadurai255K

Ranked by total sourced social following — the largest audience on record per person, drawn mainly from YouTube where we source reliably.

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