Trending Engineers — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed engineers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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3,875,049
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
303,378
views
views
2
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
282,599
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
111,870
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
103,853
views
views
5
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
90,689
views
views
6
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
79,067
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
74,744
views
views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
74,648
views
views
9
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
72,616
views
views
10
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
72,119
views
views
11
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
72,004
views
views
12
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
70,639
views
views
13
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
68,812
views
views
14
Manuel Alexander Otto
A German computer game developer. He developed the Flash game "Stick Run", which was released on Facebook in C.E.2010.
65,510
views
views
15
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
63,865
views
views
16
John Krasinski
American actor and filmmaker (born 1979)
61,945
views
views
17
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
59,348
views
views
18
Osama bin Laden
founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
54,873
views
views
19
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
54,038
views
views
20
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
45,597
views
views
21
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
44,721
views
views
22
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
43,224
views
views
23
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
42,975
views
views
24
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
40,304
views
views
25
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
40,112
views
views
26
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
40,082
views
views
27
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
39,147
views
views
28
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
39,056
views
views
29
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
38,503
views
views
30
Rafael Rodríguez Rapún
Spanish football player, actor and soldier (lieutenant)
38,292
views
views
31
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
37,748
views
views
32
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
37,621
views
views
33
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
37,529
views
views
34
Freddy Krueger
the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series
36,389
views
views
35
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
36,042
views
views
36
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
33,514
views
views
37
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
32,261
views
views
38
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
31,667
views
views
39
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
31,517
views
views
40
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
31,458
views
views
41
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
31,186
views
views
42
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
31,010
views
views
43
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,185
views
views
44
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
29,112
views
views
45
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
28,277
views
views
46
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
28,023
views
views
47
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
26,873
views
views
48
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
26,205
views
views
49
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
26,196
views
views
50
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
26,121
views
views
51
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
26,043
views
views
52
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
25,365
views
views
53
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
25,232
views
views
54
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)
24,862
views
views
55
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
24,533
views
views
56
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
24,461
views
views
57
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
24,108
views
views
58
Bill Nye
American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and mechanical engineer
23,080
views
views
59
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
22,873
views
views
60
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
22,284
views
views
61
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
21,670
views
views
62
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
20,864
views
views
63
David Mitchell (comedian)
British actor, comedian and writer
20,721
views
views
64
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
20,613
views
views
65
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
20,597
views
views
66
Kenneth Bigley
British civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004
20,507
views
views
67
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
20,201
views
views
68
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
19,919
views
views
69
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
19,745
views
views
70
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
19,507
views
views
71
Eric Schmidt
software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
19,483
views
views
72
Dr. Dre
American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
19,202
views
views
73
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
19,092
views
views
74
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
18,928
views
views
75
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
18,849
views
views
76
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
18,146
views
views
77
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
17,699
views
views
78
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
17,492
views
views
79
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
17,193
views
views
80
Shahid Khan
American businessman (born 1950)
17,060
views
views
81
Maud Bregeon
French politician
17,051
views
views
82
Miguel Díaz-Canel
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
16,833
views
views
83
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
16,823
views
views
84
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
16,771
views
views
85
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
16,662
views
views
86
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
16,653
views
views
87
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
16,583
views
views
88
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
16,531
views
views
89
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
16,499
views
views
90
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
16,483
views
views
91
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
16,411
views
views
92
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
16,374
views
views
93
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
16,141
views
views
94
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
16,075
views
views
95
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
16,030
views
views
96
Tim Cook
American business executive, former Apple executive chairman
15,924
views
views
97
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
15,881
views
views
98
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
15,849
views
views
99
Aubrey Edwards
American professional wrestling referee
15,809
views
views
100
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
15,773
views
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