Category ranking
Science and ideas
The most famous names according to Fame Score.
| # | Person | Category | Top country | Fame Score | Legacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albert Einstein | Science and ideas | Suiza | 93 | 94 |
| 2 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Science and ideas | Alemania | 92 | 94 |
| 3 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Science and ideas | Francia | 89 | 92 |
| 4 | René Descartes | Science and ideas | Francia | 82 | 88 |
| 5 | Alan Turing | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 82 | 88 |
| 6 | Tim Berners-Lee | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 76 | 77 |
| 7 | Umberto Eco | Science and ideas | Italia | 76 | 82 |
| 8 | Martin Heidegger | Science and ideas | Alemania | 76 | 83 |
| 9 | Linus Torvalds | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 73 | 72 |
| 10 | Henri Poincaré | Science and ideas | Francia | 73 | 80 |
| 11 | Robert Oppenheimer | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 73 | 80 |
| 12 | Richard Stallman | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 72 | 75 |
| 13 | Hannah Arendt | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 72 | 79 |
| 14 | Paul Dirac | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 71 | 79 |
| 15 | Tycho Brahe | Science and ideas | Reino de Dinamarca | 71 | 79 |
| 16 | Albert Schweitzer | Science and ideas | Francia | 71 | 79 |
| 17 | Max Born | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 71 | 79 |
| 18 | André-Marie Ampère | Science and ideas | Francia | 71 | 79 |
| 19 | Henri Becquerel | Science and ideas | Francia | 69 | 77 |
| 20 | James Dewey Watson | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 69 | 76 |
| 21 | Wernher von Braun | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 68 | 76 |
| 22 | Konstantín Tsiolkovski | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 68 | 76 |
| 23 | Pieter Zeeman | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 67 | 76 |
| 24 | Stanisław Lem | Science and ideas | Polonia | 67 | 76 |
| 25 | Maria Goeppert Mayer | Science and ideas | Alemania | 67 | 76 |
| 26 | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | Science and ideas | Francia | 67 | 75 |
| 27 | Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 67 | 75 |
| 28 | Hans Christian Ørsted | Science and ideas | Reino de Dinamarca | 67 | 75 |
| 29 | Gabriel Lippmann | Science and ideas | Francia | 66 | 74 |
| 30 | Hans Bethe | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 66 | 74 |
| 31 | Konrad Zacharias Lorenz | Science and ideas | Austria | 66 | 74 |
| 32 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 66 | 74 |
| 33 | Donald Knuth | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 65 | 71 |
| 34 | Friedrich Schelling | Science and ideas | Suiza | 65 | 74 |
| 35 | Emanuel Swedenborg | Science and ideas | Suecia | 65 | 73 |
| 36 | Buckminster Fuller | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 65 | 73 |
| 37 | Vitali Gínzburg | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 65 | 73 |
| 38 | Ada Yonath | Science and ideas | Israel | 64 | 70 |
| 39 | Hermann von Helmholtz | Science and ideas | Alemania | 64 | 73 |
| 40 | Augustin Louis Cauchy | Science and ideas | Francia | 64 | 72 |
| 41 | Vilfredo Pareto | Science and ideas | Francia | 64 | 72 |
| 42 | Jean Baudrillard | Science and ideas | Francia | 64 | 72 |
| 43 | Serguéi Koroliov | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 64 | 72 |
| 44 | Benoît Mandelbrot | Science and ideas | Polonia | 64 | 72 |
| 45 | Edsger W. Dijkstra | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 63 | 71 |
| 46 | Jack S. Kilby | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 63 | 72 |
| 47 | Peter Debye | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 63 | 72 |
| 48 | Martin Lewis Perl | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 62 | 71 |
| 49 | Johann Bernoulli | Science and ideas | Suiza | 62 | 71 |
| 50 | Isamu Akasaki | Science and ideas | Japón | 62 | 70 |
| 51 | John Howart Northrop | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 62 | 70 |
| 52 | Hermann Staudinger | Science and ideas | Alemania | 62 | 70 |
| 53 | Aaron Swartz | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 66 |
| 54 | Francis Fukuyama | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 65 |
| 55 | Aziz Sancar | Science and ideas | Turquía | 61 | 66 |
| 56 | Dan Shechtman | Science and ideas | Israel | 61 | 67 |
| 57 | Sheldon Lee Glashow | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 69 |
| 58 | Ivar Giæver | Science and ideas | Noruega | 61 | 70 |
| 59 | Vera Rubin | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 70 |
| 60 | Claude Elwood Shannon | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 70 |
| 61 | Lars Onsager | Science and ideas | Noruega | 61 | 70 |
| 62 | Willard Boyle | Science and ideas | Canadá | 61 | 70 |
| 63 | Fred Hoyle | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 61 | 70 |
| 64 | Tadeus Reichstein | Science and ideas | Suiza | 61 | 70 |
| 65 | Niels Ryberg Finsen | Science and ideas | Reino de Dinamarca | 61 | 70 |
| 66 | Gerhard Domagk | Science and ideas | Alemania | 61 | 70 |
| 67 | Melvin Calvin | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 70 |
| 68 | Maurice Allais | Science and ideas | Francia | 61 | 70 |
| 69 | Christiaan Eijkman | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 61 | 70 |
| 70 | Leó Szilárd | Science and ideas | Hungría | 61 | 70 |
| 71 | John McCarthy | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 61 | 70 |
| 72 | Mario Molina | Science and ideas | México | 60 | 66 |
| 73 | George E. Smith | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 60 | 69 |
| 74 | George Gamow | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 60 | 70 |
| 75 | Roman Jakobson | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 60 | 70 |
| 76 | Gustavo VI Adolfo de Suecia | Science and ideas | Suecia | 60 | 69 |
| 77 | Vladimir Prelog | Science and ideas | Suiza | 60 | 69 |
| 78 | Jaroslav Heyrovský | Science and ideas | Checoslovaquia | 60 | 69 |
| 79 | Karl R. von Frisch | Science and ideas | Austria | 60 | 69 |
| 80 | Moses Mendelssohn | Science and ideas | Alemania | 60 | 69 |
| 81 | Karl Ziegler | Science and ideas | Alemania | 60 | 69 |
| 82 | Chien-Shiung Wu | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 60 | 69 |
| 83 | Stanisław Ulam | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 60 | 69 |
| 84 | Nikolaas Tinbergen | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 60 | 69 |
| 85 | Atanasio Kircher | Science and ideas | Alemania | 60 | 69 |
| 86 | James Lovelock | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 60 | 69 |
| 87 | William Francis Giauque | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 60 | 69 |
| 88 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | Science and ideas | Francia | 59 | 61 |
| 89 | Andre Geim | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 59 | 62 |
| 90 | Serge Haroche | Science and ideas | Francia | 59 | 66 |
| 91 | Harold Kroto | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 59 | 66 |
| 92 | Anton Szandor LaVey | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 59 | 68 |
| 93 | Hideki Shirakawa | Science and ideas | Japón | 59 | 66 |
| 94 | Niklaus Wirth | Science and ideas | Suiza | 59 | 67 |
| 95 | Alan G. MacDiarmid | Science and ideas | Nueva Zelanda | 59 | 68 |
| 96 | Aleksandr Fridman | Science and ideas | Unión Soviética | 59 | 68 |
| 97 | Edward Emerson Barnard | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 59 | 68 |
| 98 | Hippolyte Fizeau | Science and ideas | Bélgica | 59 | 68 |
| 99 | Hans Eysenck | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 59 | 68 |
| 100 | Alberto Santos Dumont | Science and ideas | Brasil | 59 | 68 |
| 101 | Max Wolf | Science and ideas | Alemania | 59 | 68 |
| 102 | Julius Axelrod | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 59 | 68 |
| 103 | Andrea M. Ghez | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 58 | 61 |
| 104 | Shigeru Miyamoto | Science and ideas | Japón | 58 | 63 |
| 105 | Mae Jemison | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 58 | 62 |
| 106 | Bjarne Stroustrup | Science and ideas | Reino de Dinamarca | 58 | 64 |
| 107 | Richard Smalley | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 58 | 64 |
| 108 | Susumu Tonegawa | Science and ideas | Japón | 58 | 65 |
| 109 | Alan J. Heeger | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 58 | 66 |
| 110 | Alain Badiou | Science and ideas | Francia | 58 | 65 |
| 111 | Margaret Hamilton | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 58 | 65 |
| 112 | Martin Karplus | Science and ideas | Austria | 58 | 67 |
| 113 | Hermann Julius Oberth | Science and ideas | Rumania | 58 | 68 |
| 114 | Sunita Williams | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 57 | 60 |
| 115 | Kōichi Tanaka | Science and ideas | Japón | 57 | 61 |
| 116 | Eckhart Tolle | Science and ideas | Alemania | 57 | 63 |
| 117 | Reinhard Genzel | Science and ideas | Alemania | 57 | 62 |
| 118 | Vinton Cerf | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 57 | 64 |
| 119 | John O'Keefe | Science and ideas | Reino Unido | 57 | 64 |
| 120 | Giorgio Parisi | Science and ideas | Italia | 56 | 62 |
| 121 | Bruce Beutler | Science and ideas | Estados Unidos | 55 | 60 |
| 122 | Guido van Rossum | Science and ideas | Reino de los Países Bajos | 55 | 60 |
| 123 | Hary Gunarto | Science and ideas | Indonesia | 55 | 60 |