Study
The most followed scientists
The scientists with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.
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Elon Musk213.0M - 2
Omar Abd al-Kafi10.2M - 3
Walter Lewin1.8M - 4
Sabine Hossenfelder1.8M - 5
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H. C. Verma1.1M - 6
Mike Horn855K - 7
Vivek Ramaswamy809K - 8
Wojciech Cejrowski802K - 9
Bruce Lipton620K - 10
Bret Weinstein545K - 11
Aurélien Barrau292K - 12
Paul Stamets271K - 13
Stanislav Drobyshevsky268K - 14
Sean M. Carroll257K - 15
James Tour249K - 16
Carl Sagan181K - 17
Jeri Ellsworth155K - 18
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Ophelia Pastrana95K - 19
Ed Stafford68K - 20
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim64K - 21
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Ellen MacArthur63K - 22
Phil Plait59K - 23
Krzysztof Meissner33K - 24
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David Attenborough25K - 25
Amyr Klink24K
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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