Trending Engineers — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed engineers on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Osama bin Laden. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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21,299,106
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Osama bin Laden
founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
1,295,226
views
views
2
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
1,051,518
views
views
3
Mohamed Atta
Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)
842,533
views
views
4
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
823,279
views
views
5
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
810,974
views
views
6
John Ternus
CEO of Apple
656,682
views
views
7
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
638,800
views
views
8
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
584,332
views
views
9
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
489,763
views
views
10
Tim Cook
American business executive, former Apple executive chairman
397,302
views
views
11
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
355,973
views
views
12
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
342,578
views
views
13
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
329,450
views
views
14
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
15
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
311,371
views
views
16
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
310,089
views
views
17
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
294,885
views
views
18
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
293,659
views
views
19
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
288,891
views
views
20
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
21
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
258,654
views
views
22
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
239,385
views
views
23
John Krasinski
American actor and filmmaker (born 1979)
238,709
views
views
24
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
236,346
views
views
25
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
234,628
views
views
26
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
231,820
views
views
27
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
231,198
views
views
28
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
230,915
views
views
29
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
226,760
views
views
30
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
215,647
views
views
31
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
206,927
views
views
32
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
205,982
views
views
33
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
199,842
views
views
34
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
199,748
views
views
35
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
192,930
views
views
36
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
190,930
views
views
37
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
189,381
views
views
38
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
39
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
175,163
views
views
40
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
164,798
views
views
41
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
164,549
views
views
42
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
163,405
views
views
43
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
158,853
views
views
44
Dr. Dre
American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
152,242
views
views
45
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
151,864
views
views
46
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
145,546
views
views
47
David Mitchell (comedian)
British actor, comedian and writer
145,083
views
views
48
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
142,947
views
views
49
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
141,743
views
views
50
Thomas Massie
American politician
137,963
views
views
51
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
134,492
views
views
52
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
134,305
views
views
53
Abdulaziz al-Omari
9/11 hijacker
130,152
views
views
54
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
123,433
views
views
55
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
120,159
views
views
56
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
118,269
views
views
57
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
117,106
views
views
58
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
115,745
views
views
59
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
115,306
views
views
60
Rafael Rodríguez Rapún
Spanish football player, actor and soldier (lieutenant)
113,425
views
views
61
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
110,323
views
views
62
António Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
110,272
views
views
63
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
109,660
views
views
64
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
109,622
views
views
65
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
108,049
views
views
66
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
107,826
views
views
67
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
101,761
views
views
68
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
100,136
views
views
69
Kemi Badenoch
British politician and Leader of the Opposition to the British Government (2024–present) and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2024 (born 1980)
99,770
views
views
70
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
96,220
views
views
71
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
95,334
views
views
72
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
94,428
views
views
73
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
74
Genaro García Luna
Mexican politician
93,357
views
views
75
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
91,579
views
views
76
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
89,916
views
views
77
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
89,179
views
views
78
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
89,138
views
views
79
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
88,493
views
views
80
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
87,350
views
views
81
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
86,733
views
views
82
Jiang Zemin
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)
86,325
views
views
83
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
85,943
views
views
84
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
85,498
views
views
85
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
84,842
views
views
86
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
84,711
views
views
87
Alan Scott
fictional superhero of the DC Comics Universe
84,097
views
views
88
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
83,955
views
views
89
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
83,629
views
views
90
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
83,394
views
views
91
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
80,947
views
views
92
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
80,600
views
views
93
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
80,524
views
views
94
Lisa Su
American business executive and electrical engineer
80,203
views
views
95
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
80,147
views
views
96
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
79,806
views
views
97
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
77,959
views
views
98
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
77,781
views
views
99
Fred Dibnah
English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
76,323
views
views
100
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
76,216
views
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