Trending Architects of all time
The 100 most-viewed architects of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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Ranked
273,057
Total Views (of all time)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
47,174
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2
Jack Nicklaus
American golfer (born 1940)
19,020
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views
3
Robert Moses
American urban planner (1888–1981)
10,549
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views
4
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
9,748
views
views
5
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
8,851
views
views
6
Zdzisław Beksiński
Polish artist (1929-2005)
8,268
views
views
7
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
6,696
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views
8
Bianca Censori
Australian architect and model
5,579
views
views
9
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
5,492
views
views
10
Yolanda Hadid
American television personality and former model
5,155
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views
11
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao
Peace Ambassador, Colombian architect, author, and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar
4,906
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views
12
Antoni Gaudí
Catalan architect (1852–1926)
4,104
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views
13
Mary Richardson Kennedy
American interior designer, architect, and philanthropist
3,817
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views
14
Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
3,792
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views
15
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
3,718
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views
16
Albert Speer
German architect and urban planner (1934–2017)
3,327
views
views
17
Alister MacKenzie
Scottish golf course architect (1870–1934)
3,179
views
views
18
H. R. Giger
Swiss artist (1940–2014)
3,027
views
views
19
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian painter (1720-1778)
2,982
views
views
20
Virgil Abloh
American fashion designer (1980-2021)
2,938
views
views
21
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
2,914
views
views
22
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian artist (born 1954)
2,747
views
views
23
James Ogilvy
British landscape designer and publisher (born 1964)
2,544
views
views
24
Christopher Ciccone
American artist (1960–2024)
2,418
views
views
25
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
2,353
views
views
26
David Oyedepo
Nigerian pastor
2,185
views
views
27
Adam Frost
British garden designer (born 1969)
2,179
views
views
28
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
2,110
views
views
29
Arnold Palmer
American golfer (1929–2016)
2,095
views
views
30
Gerald Luss
architect
2,067
views
views
31
Milan Knížák
Czech visual artist, performer, musician and professor (1940-2026)
2,045
views
views
32
Frank Gehry
Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
2,002
views
views
33
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
1,973
views
views
34
Gustave Eiffel
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
1,910
views
views
35
Albert Kahn
American architect (1869–1942)
1,891
views
views
36
Phyllis Gates
American secretary and interior decorator, wife of Rock Hudson (1925–2006)
1,869
views
views
37
Stanford White
American architect (1853-1906)
1,789
views
views
38
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)
1,747
views
views
39
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
1,743
views
views
40
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005)
1,732
views
views
41
Juan Pablo Mohr
Chilean mountaineer
1,709
views
views
42
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Marjorie Eaton
US actress (1901-1986)
1,704
views
views
43
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William Haines
American actor, interior designer (1900–1973)
1,702
views
views
44
Neil Breen
American film director
1,678
views
views
45
Camille O'Sullivan
Irish musician
1,654
views
views
46
Catherine Hardwicke
American film director, screenwriter and architect
1,652
views
views
47
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
1,633
views
views
48
El Greco
Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
1,626
views
views
49
Catherine FitzGerald
Irish landscape designer and gardener (born 1971)
1,625
views
views
50
Lyndall Hobbs
Film director, producer and interior designer
1,625
views
views
51
Mike Holmes
general contractor, television home-renovation host
1,498
views
views
52
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
1,466
views
views
53
Ai Weiwei
Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)
1,429
views
views
54
Laura Itzel Castillo
Mexican architect and politician
1,414
views
views
55
Neri Oxman
Israeli-American designer and academic (born 1976)
1,408
views
views
56
John Inman
British actor (1935–2007)
1,364
views
views
57
Bhupendrabhai Patel
Indian politician
1,310
views
views
58
Princess Rajwa Al Hussein
Saudi royal
1,297
views
views
59
Cedric Gibbons
American art director (1890–1960)
1,297
views
views
60
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Harry Kendall Thaw
American playboy (1871–1947)
1,275
views
views
61
Ted Mosby
fictional character from the television series How I Met Your Mother
1,274
views
views
62
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
1,243
views
views
63
Lancelot Brown
British landscape architect (1716–1783)
1,177
views
views
64
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
1,170
views
views
65
Jeremiah Brent
American designer
1,159
views
views
66
Tom Watson
American golfer (born 1949)
1,151
views
views
67
Sarah Winchester
American heiress and occultist (1839–1922)
1,107
views
views
68
Viktor Vasnetsov
Russian artist (1848-1926)
1,092
views
views
69
Hans Kammler
German architect, SS general, head of construction and armament projects in the German Reich (1901-1945)
1,088
views
views
70
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Keye Luke
American actor (1904–1991)
1,087
views
views
71
Leigh Anne Tuohy
American interior designer
1,057
views
views
72
Edmund Bacon
American urban planner and architect (1910–2005)
1,047
views
views
73
Jean Baptiste Kléber
French general, and architect (1753-1800)
1,039
views
views
74
Olena Zelenska
Ukrainian screenwriter and First Lady of Ukraine
1,029
views
views
75
Jeff Lewis
real estate speculator
1,016
views
views
76
Edward James
British poet and arts patron (1907–1984)
1,012
views
views
77
Paola Franchi
Italian interior designer
1,001
views
views
78
Christopher Alexander
American architect and design theorist (1936-2022)
995
views
views
79
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
937
views
views
80
Eric Villency
American chief executive
930
views
views
81
Rachel Lambert Mellon
American horticulturalist and philanthropist (1910-2014)
926
views
views
82
Jean Nouvel
French architect (b.1945)
923
views
views
83
Bess of Hardwick
notable figure of 16th century Elizabethan English society (c.1521-1608)
910
views
views
84
Lysippos
4th-century BC Greek sculptor
908
views
views
85
Daniel Burnham
American architect and urban designer (1846– 1912)
885
views
views
86
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Italian painter and architect (1691–1765)
836
views
views
87
Edwin Lutyens
British architect (1869–1944)
832
views
views
88
Erwin Lambert
German Holocaust perpetrator (1909-1976)
826
views
views
89
Donald Ross
Professional golfer, golf course architect (1872–1948)
821
views
views
90
Jimmie Shields
American interior designer (1905–1974)
821
views
views
91
Marc Kushner
American architect, entrepreneur and author; co-founding CEO of Architizer
820
views
views
92
Charles Eames
American designer (1907-1978)
796
views
views
93
John Trumbull
American artist (1756–1843)
785
views
views
94
Robert Graham (sculptor)
Mexican-born American sculptor (1938–2008)
781
views
views
95
Aa
ancient Egyptian architect
767
views
views
96
Svetlana Kana Radević
Montenegrin architect (1937-2000)
766
views
views
97
Giles Gilbert Scott
English architect (1880–1960)
764
views
views
98
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist (1868-1928)
764
views
views
99
Carl Nebel
German artist (1805-1855)
758
views
views
100
Big Freedia
American rapper
756
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