Trending Engineers this year
The 100 most-viewed engineers this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
5,496,187
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
284,951
views
views
2
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
169,531
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
136,938
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
131,323
views
views
5
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
125,539
views
views
6
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
124,643
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
124,321
views
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
114,245
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
106,549
views
views
10
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
104,138
views
views
11
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
102,615
views
views
12
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
89,529
views
views
13
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
88,811
views
views
14
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
87,288
views
views
15
Osama bin Laden
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
85,808
views
views
16
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
83,308
views
views
17
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
83,210
views
views
18
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
79,765
views
views
19
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist and statesman (1931–2015)
79,499
views
views
20
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
78,767
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
76,555
views
views
22
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
75,458
views
views
23
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
74,669
views
views
24
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
68,316
views
views
25
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
68,167
views
views
26
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
67,783
views
views
27
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
66,540
views
views
28
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
64,644
views
views
29
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
63,843
views
views
30
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
61,565
views
views
31
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
60,690
views
views
32
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
57,774
views
views
33
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
55,921
views
views
34
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
55,378
views
views
35
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
54,315
views
views
36
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
51,999
views
views
37
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
48,382
views
views
38
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
48,031
views
views
39
Dr. Dre
American record producer and rapper (born 1965)
47,824
views
views
40
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
47,093
views
views
41
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
46,812
views
views
42
Thomas Massie
American politician
46,344
views
views
43
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
46,227
views
views
44
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
44,146
views
views
45
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
44,020
views
views
46
Tim Cook
American business executive, Apple CEO
43,301
views
views
47
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
42,746
views
views
48
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
42,641
views
views
49
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
42,352
views
views
50
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
41,770
views
views
51
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
41,646
views
views
52
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
41,183
views
views
53
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
41,065
views
views
54
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
40,847
views
views
55
John Ternus
Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering
40,166
views
views
56
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
37,347
views
views
57
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
37,250
views
views
58
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
36,475
views
views
59
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
36,345
views
views
60
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
35,849
views
views
61
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
35,829
views
views
62
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
35,724
views
views
63
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
35,385
views
views
64
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
35,051
views
views
65
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
34,815
views
views
66
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
34,800
views
views
67
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
34,436
views
views
68
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
33,790
views
views
69
Satya Nadella
Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
33,498
views
views
70
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
33,481
views
views
71
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
33,104
views
views
72
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
33,101
views
views
73
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
32,705
views
views
74
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
30,504
views
views
75
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024)
30,122
views
views
76
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
29,506
views
views
77
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
29,478
views
views
78
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
29,439
views
views
79
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
28,814
views
views
80
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
28,469
views
views
81
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
28,427
views
views
82
Sif Eddine
Spanish businessman, president of Real Madrid
28,108
views
views
83
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
27,659
views
views
84
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
27,574
views
views
85
Susana Higuchi
Peruvian politician (1950–2021)
27,242
views
views
86
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
27,116
views
views
87
Manuel Noriega
Panamanian head of state (1934-2017)
27,025
views
views
88
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
26,610
views
views
89
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
25,954
views
views
90
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
25,842
views
views
91
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,680
views
views
92
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
25,404
views
views
93
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
25,182
views
views
94
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
25,096
views
views
95
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
25,016
views
views
96
Anatoly Dyatlov
deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the time of the disaster (1931–1995)
24,815
views
views
97
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
24,673
views
views
98
Matthew Mercer
American actor
24,359
views
views
99
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
24,338
views
views
100
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
23,759
views
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