Los 100 científicos más famosos de la historia

Clasificación según los datos de enlaces de Wikipedia — cuanto más cerca del #1, más famoso.

1. Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity.
2. AristotleAristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics,…
3. ConfuciusConfucius, born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon…
4. Karl MarxKarl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, and revolutionary socialist.
5. Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman,…
6. PlatoPlato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the…
7. Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor.
8. Charles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
9. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language.
10. SocratesSocrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major…
11. The Buddha
12. Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
13. VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
14. Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to…
15. Fyodor DostoyevskyFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.
16. Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central…
17. Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph,…
18. René DescartesRené Descartes was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy…
19. Marie CurieMaria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist.
20. ArchimedesArchimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily.
21. Rabindranath Tagore
22. Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer.
23. Steve JobsSteven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor.
24. Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.
25. Augustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius.
26. Adam SmithAdam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during…
27. Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the…
28. Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor.
29. Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
30. Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised…
31. LaoziLaozi was a legendary Chinese philosopher considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism.
32. Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of…
33. PythagorasPythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
34. John LockeJohn Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment…
35. Albert Camus
36. Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher.
37. Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited,…
38. CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate…
39. EuclidEuclid was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.
40. Stephen HawkingStephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the…
41. Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist.
42. Marlene Dietrich
43. Carl Friedrich GaussJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in…
44. Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer,…
45. Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
46. AvicennaIbn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world.
47. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism.
48. Alfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman.
49. Francis BaconFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor…
50. Alan TuringAlan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
51. Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music…
52. Noam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic.
53. Niels Bohr
54. Bertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, and social reformer.
55. Simone de BeauvoirSimone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
56. Friedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian.
57. Johannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist.
58. Max PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist.
59. Dmitri MendeleevDmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic…
60. Benedictus de SpinozaBaruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish…
61. Michael FaradayMichael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.
62. Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.
63. Rafael Menestra
64. Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation,…
65. Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in…
66. Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of…
67. Enrico FermiEnrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor,…
68. Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, Lutheran theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely…
69. Anne Frank
70. Omar KhayyámOmar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and…
71. Ibn KhaldunIbn Khaldun was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist.
72. Muḥammad ibn Musa al-KhwarizmiMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced…
73. Sun TzuSun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period.
74. David HilbertDavid Hilbert was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.
75. Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
76. ThalesThales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor.
77. Tim Berners-LeeSir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide…
78. Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the…
79. Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an…
80. James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic…
81. David HumeDavid Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of…
82. PlutarchPlutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of…
83. James WattJames Watt was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his…
84. Seneca
85. Wilhelm RöntgenWilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength…
86. Richard FeynmanRichard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist.
87. Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer,…
88. Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist,…
89. DemocritusDemocritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory…
90. Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sen was a Chinese physician, revolutionary and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) and the…
91. Umberto EcoUmberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
92. Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
93. Denis DiderotDenis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and…
94. EpicurusEpicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism, which taught that management of…
95. John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician.
96. Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism.
97. HeraclitusHeraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire.
98. Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
99. Maya Angelou
100. Henry KissingerHenry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician.

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