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The most famous scientists associated with Historical Figures right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	Italy	Artists	94.4	0.0
#3	new	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Scientists	93.6	0.0
#4	new	Christopher Columbus	Italy	Scientists	93.3	0.0
#5	new	Ferdinand Magellan	Portugal	Scientists	90.3	4.9
#6	new	Roald Amundsen	Norway	Scientists	89.6	15.1
#7	new	James Cook	United Kingdom	Scientists	89.6	10.0
#8	new	Vasco da Gama	Portugal	Scientists	88.7	10.0
#9	new	Hernán Cortés	Spain	Scientists	81.5	0.0
#10	new	Ibn Battuta	—	Scientists	80.1	0.0
#11	new	Jacques Cartier	France	Scientists	79.1	0.6
#12	new	Zheng He	China	Scientists	77.5	0.0
#13	new	Francis Drake	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.0	0.0
#14	new	Leif Erikson	—	Scientists	71.1	10.7
#15	new	Abel Tasman	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	11.5
#16	new	Amerigo Vespucci	—	Scientists	69.6	0.0
#17	new	Jacques Cousteau	France	Scientists	67.5	1.0
#18	new	David Livingstone	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.2	0.3
#19	new	Robert Falcon Scott	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.7	14.7
#20	new	Thor Heyerdahl	Norway	Scientists	65.3	3.8
#21	new	Vitus Bering	—	Scientists	65.2	19.1
#22	new	Pedro Álvares Cabral	Portugal	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#23	new	Francisco Pizarro	Spain	Scientists	64.6	0.9
#24	new	Willem Barentsz	Netherlands	Scientists	63.5	16.5
#25	new	Ernest Shackleton	—	Scientists	63.2	3.4
#26	new	Samuel de Champlain	France	Scientists	62.6	16.4
#27	new	Juan Sebastián Elcano	Spain	Scientists	62.5	27.0
#28	new	Bartolomeu Dias	Portugal	Scientists	60.5	0.0
#29	new	Gertrude Bell	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.4	7.4
#30	new	Xuanzang	China	Scientists	60.3	0.0
#31	new	Daniel Boone	United States	Scientists	58.4	0.0
#32	new	Pytheas	France	Scientists	57.9	6.8
#33	new	Erik the Red	Norway	Scientists	57.6	0.2
#34	new	Evliya Çelebi	Turkey	Scientists	57.6	2.3
#35	new	William Clark	United States	Scientists	57.5	2.3
#36	new	Juan Ponce de León	Spain	Scientists	57.2	0.0
#37	new	William Adams	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.9	0.0
#38	new	Robert Peary	United States	Scientists	56.8	0.2
#39	new	Thorfinn Karlsefni	—	Scientists	56.4	0.0
#40	new	Vasco Núñez de Balboa	Spain	Scientists	55.8	0.0
#41	new	John Davis	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.3	7.2
#42	new	William Baffin	—	Scientists	54.8	7.7
#43	new	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen	—	Scientists	54.5	0.0
#44	new	Giovanni da Verrazzano	Italy	Scientists	54.5	0.0
#45	new	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado	Spain	Scientists	54.4	0.0
#46	new	Zhang Qian	China	Scientists	54.4	0.7
#47	new	Diego de Almagro	Spain	Scientists	54.3	0.0
#48	new	Giovanni Battista Belzoni	Italy	Scientists	54.1	0.7
#49	new	Jan van Riebeeck	Netherlands	Scientists	54.0	0.4
#50	new	Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld	Sweden	Scientists	53.7	1.5
#51	new	Ingólfr Arnarson	—	Scientists	53.5	0.9
#52	new	JR Jacob Roggeveen	—	Actors	53.4	2.0
#53	new	Giovanni da Pian del Carpine	—	Scientists	53.3	0.0
#54	new	Martin Behaim	—	Scientists	52.2	0.0