Trending Engineers this week
The 100 most-viewed engineers this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Shane van Gisbergen.
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Ranked
179,231
Total Views (this week)
1
Shane van Gisbergen
New Zealand racecar driver
11,117
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views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
11,084
views
views
3
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
9,386
views
views
4
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
4,722
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
3,656
views
views
6
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
3,182
views
views
7
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
3,128
views
views
8
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
3,087
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
3,032
views
views
10
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
2,983
views
views
11
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
2,905
views
views
12
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
2,860
views
views
13
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
2,665
views
views
14
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
2,631
views
views
15
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
2,600
views
views
16
Thomas Massie
American politician
2,462
views
views
17
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
2,437
views
views
18
Osama bin Laden
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
2,331
views
views
19
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
2,300
views
views
20
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
2,259
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
2,236
views
views
22
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
2,158
views
views
23
Fred Haise
American astronaut
2,147
views
views
24
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
2,140
views
views
25
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
2,104
views
views
26
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
2,069
views
views
27
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
1,950
views
views
28
Jack Swigert
NASA Astronaut, Pilot (1931-1982)
1,911
views
views
29
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
1,834
views
views
30
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
1,803
views
views
31
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
1,684
views
views
32
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
1,648
views
views
33
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
1,629
views
views
34
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
1,629
views
views
35
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
1,596
views
views
36
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
1,585
views
views
37
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
1,579
views
views
38
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,578
views
views
39
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
1,531
views
views
40
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
1,527
views
views
41
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
1,484
views
views
42
Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody
Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker
1,483
views
views
43
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
1,477
views
views
44
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
1,472
views
views
45
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
1,449
views
views
46
Dr. Dre
American record producer and rapper (born 1965)
1,444
views
views
47
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
1,411
views
views
48
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024)
1,395
views
views
49
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
1,360
views
views
50
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
1,332
views
views
51
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
1,296
views
views
52
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
1,291
views
views
53
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
1,265
views
views
54
Ken Mattingly
American astronaut
1,242
views
views
55
Julian Schnabel
American painter and filmmaker (born 1951)
1,199
views
views
56
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
1,180
views
views
57
Matthew Mercer
American actor
1,174
views
views
58
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
1,140
views
views
59
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
1,139
views
views
60
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914–2009)
1,135
views
views
61
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
1,122
views
views
62
Manuel Noriega
Panamanian head of state (1934-2017)
1,120
views
views
63
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
1,105
views
views
64
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
1,085
views
views
65
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
1,073
views
views
66
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
1,070
views
views
67
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
1,027
views
views
68
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
1,004
views
views
69
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
991
views
views
70
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
976
views
views
71
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
972
views
views
72
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
966
views
views
73
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
963
views
views
74
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
962
views
views
75
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
950
views
views
76
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist (1958-1990)
947
views
views
77
David Hockney
English painter and printmaker (1937–2026)
917
views
views
78
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
916
views
views
79
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
907
views
views
80
Aron Ralston
Mountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker
905
views
views
81
Jack Welch
American executive: General Electric CEO (1935–2020)
903
views
views
82
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
897
views
views
83
Cameron Mathison
Canadian-American actor and television host (born 1969)
895
views
views
84
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
891
views
views
85
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
842
views
views
86
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
818
views
views
87
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
790
views
views
88
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
775
views
views
89
Gene Kranz
NASA Flight Director and manager
772
views
views
90
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
771
views
views
91
Tim Cook
American business executive
758
views
views
92
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
745
views
views
93
Mohamed Atta
Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)
742
views
views
94
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist artist (1887–1986)
738
views
views
95
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
738
views
views
96
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
734
views
views
97
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
734
views
views
98
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
733
views
views
99
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
726
views
views
100
Dylann Roof
American white supremacist and neo nazi (born April 3nd 1994)
718
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