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Top people for #Science

Everyone the internet links to Science, ordered by the spotlight they hold. 119 tracked, sorted by the attention they pull across search, Wikipedia, the news cycle, and social platforms, recalculated every day.

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The people the world most associates with Science right now, concentrated in United States, Germany, United Kingdom — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

#ScienceTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

119 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	—	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	Italy	Artists	94.4	0.0
#3	—	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Scientists	93.6	0.0
#4	—	Johannes Gutenberg	Germany	Scientists	82.9	0.0
#5	—	Karl Benz	Germany	Scientists	73.0	10.1
#6	—	Rudolf Diesel	France	Scientists	65.1	0.6
#7	—	Louis Braille	France	Scientists	63.0	0.0
#8	—	Sergei Korolev	—	Academics	62.9	1.0
#9	—	Douglas Engelbart	United States	Scientists	61.5	5.2
#10	—	Nikolaus Otto	Germany	Scientists	59.3	20.2
#11	—	George Stephenson	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.1	0.0
#12	—	Nizam al-Mulk	—	Scientists	58.8	17.9
#13	—	Igor Sikorsky	United States	Scientists	58.6	1.0
#14	—	Samuel Colt	United States	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#15	—	Hans Eysenck	United Kingdom	Academics	57.8	15.0
#16	—	Karl Drais	Germany	Scientists	56.7	15.4
#17	—	George Westinghouse	United States	Founders	55.0	0.0
#18	—	Thomas Newcomen	United Kingdom	Scientists	54.5	1.1
#19	—	Wilhelm Maybach	Germany	Scientists	54.5	0.0
#20	1	Adam Opel	Germany	Scientists	54.2	1.6
#21	1	Frank Whittle	United Kingdom	Scientists	54.2	0.2
#22	—	Bob Kahn	United States	Scientists	53.7	0.6
#23	—	Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot	France	Business Professionals	53.5	0.0
#24	—	Joseph Marie Jacquard	France	Scientists	53.5	0.1
#25	—	Jimmy Wales	United States	Business Professionals	97.5	14.3
#26	—	Nikola Tesla	—	Scientists	89.8	0.0
#27	—	Mimar Sinan	Turkey	Architects	73.8	0.0
#28	—	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0
#29	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#30	—	John Amos Comenius	—	Academics	68.6	6.7
#31	—	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#32	—	Emil von Behring	—	Doctors	65.4	10.0
#33	—	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	65.2	16.4
#34	—	Hans Bethe	France	Scientists	64.0	0.0
#35	—	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Netherlands	Scientists	63.6	1.1
#36	—	Nasir al-Din al-Tusi	—	Academics	61.9	6.9
#37	—	Ada Yonath	Israel	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#38	—	Emir Abdelkader	—	Politicians	60.5	0.0
#39	—	Robert Fulton	United States	Scientists	60.3	3.8
#40	—	Nicéphore Niépce	France	Scientists	59.9	5.9
#41	—	Cai Lun	China	Scientists	58.6	0.0
#42	—	John Howard Northrop	United States	Scientists	58.1	3.6
#43	—	Niels Ryberg Finsen	—	Doctors	57.6	2.2
#44	—	Adolphe Sax	—	Scientists	57.5	0.9
#45	—	Werner von Siemens	Germany	Scientists	57.4	0.6
#46	—	Konrad Zuse	Germany	Scientists	57.4	0.0
#47	—	Isamu Akasaki	Japan	Scientists	57.3	0.0
#48	—	Klaus Schwab	Germany	Academics	57.2	0.1
#49	—	Sheldon Lee Glashow	United States	Scientists	57.0	0.0
#50	—	Leo Szilard	—	Scientists	57.0	0.0
#51	—	Christiaan Eijkman	Netherlands	Doctors	57.0	2.3
#52	—	Antonio Meucci	United States	Scientists	56.9	1.6
#53	—	Christian Goldbach	—	Academics	55.8	17.3
#54	—	Karl von Frisch	Austria	Academics	55.0	0.0
#55	—	Eli Whitney	United States	Founders	54.8	0.0
#56	—	Richard Trevithick	United Kingdom	Scientists	54.5	0.0
#57	—	Bartolomeo Cristofori	Italy	Scientists	54.2	0.0
#58	—	Hiram Maxim	United States	Scientists	54.2	0.0
#59	—	Hans Geiger	Germany	Scientists	53.8	0.0
#60	—	Gideon Sundback	Sweden	Business Professionals	52.2	0.0
#61	—	Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X. Founder of Neuralink, xAI	South Africa	Developers	99.0	18.7
#62	—	Alfred Nobel	Sweden	Scientists	85.5	0.0
#63	—	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	79.8	2.8
#64	—	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	79.3	0.0
#65	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#66	—	Paul Dirac	United Kingdom	Academics	71.5	0.4
#67	—	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	India	Politicians	70.9	14.5
#68	—	Rita Levi-Montalcini	United States	Politicians	66.7	0.0
#69	—	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#70	—	Camillo Golgi	Italy	Doctors	63.5	11.0
#71	—	Buckminster Fuller	United States	Architects	63.0	0.3
#72	—	Peter Debye	Netherlands	Scientists	62.2	5.4
#73	—	Benoit Mandelbrot	—	Academics	61.4	0.5
#74	—	Zbigniew Brzezinski	United States	Academics	60.1	0.0
#75	—	John Logie Baird	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.9	0.2
#76	—	Norbert Wiener	United States	Academics	59.8	0.2
#77	—	Herman Hollerith	United States	Scientists	57.6	17.1
#78	—	Jim Simons	United States	Academics	57.0	0.0
#79	—	László Bíró	—	Scientists	57.0	2.1
#80	—	Roman Jakobson	United States	Writers	56.4	0.0
#81	—	Gerhard Domagk	Germany	Doctors	56.3	0.0
#82	—	Tadeusz Reichstein	Switzerland	Scientists	56.2	0.8
#83	—	Hans Lippershey	Germany	Scientists	56.2	15.1
#84	—	Moses Mendelssohn	Germany	Academics	55.8	0.0
#85	—	George E. Smith	United States	Scientists	55.8	1.3
#86	—	Nikolaas Tinbergen	Netherlands	Scientists	54.6	0.0
#87	—	Jaroslav Heyrovský	—	Scientists	54.3	0.0
#88	—	Samuel Pierpont Langley	United States	Scientists	53.6	0.4
#89	—	Henry Ford	United States	Founders	88.4	1.4
#90	—	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.6	10.0
#91	—	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	79.0	0.0
#92	—	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.6	5.3
#93	—	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	71.4	10.0
#94	—	Johann Bernoulli	Switzerland	Academics	62.0	15.0
#95	—	Ismail al-Jazari	—	Academics	58.6	2.9
#96	—	Benjamin Constant	Switzerland	Academics	57.9	0.0
#97	—	Denis Papin	France	Academics	57.3	12.1
#98	—	Rashid-al-Din Hamadani	—	Writers	57.3	6.4
#99	—	Stanislaw Ulam	United States	Academics	56.8	0.8
#100	—	Ernő Rubik	—	Architects	56.4	0.0