Popularity ranking · Italy

The 100 most popular Scientists in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest scientists in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 228 scientists tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi and Marie Curie lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.4M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 63k, and the largest, Stephen Hawking, reaches around 1.1M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each scientists, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Luca Agnelli 50k 26.5 27.2% Scientists
27 Mohamed Atta 46k 39.8 51.6% Scientists
28 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 41k 32.0 52.9% Scientists
29 Marco Balzano 39k 41.3 62.0% Scientists
30 Jonathan Ive 37k Scientists
31 John von Neumann 34k 39.6 15.9% Scientists
32 Anna Pavlova 34k 33.2 86.4% Scientists
33 Yitzhak Rabin 30k 42.0 38.1% Scientists
34 Luke Harper 29k 33.3 9.3% Scientists
35 Roger Penrose 28k 50.4 74.1% Scientists
36 Paul Dirac 28k 35.7 29.8% Scientists
37 Andy Summers 26k Scientists
38 Alexander Graham Bell 26k 39.9 48.6% Scientists
39 Leonhard Euler 25k 31.3 61.1% Scientists
40 Erwin Schrödinger 23k 37.0 42.4% Scientists
41 Shahid Khan 22k 36.2 30.3% Scientists
42 Grace Hopper 21k 38.4 67.2% Scientists
43 John Amos Comenius 21k 34.2 51.8% Scientists
44 Albert Hofmann 21k 40.1 0.0% Scientists
45 Marcello Piacentini 20k 31.5 84.3% Scientists
46 Johannes Kepler 19k 34.1 40.1% Scientists
47 Robert Hooke 18k Scientists
48 Michael Faraday 18k 43.4 34.8% Scientists
49 James Clerk Maxwell 16k 42.3 71.5% Scientists
50 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 15k 49.9 54.7% Scientists

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular scientists compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each scientists by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest scientists in Italy?

Stephen Hawking currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.1M people in Italy.

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