Trending Inventors this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
3,255,541
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
284,951
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
136,938
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views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
124,643
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
124,321
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
89,529
views
views
6
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
88,811
views
views
7
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
87,288
views
views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
76,555
views
views
9
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
75,458
views
views
10
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
74,669
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views
11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
68,316
views
views
12
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
68,167
views
views
13
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
67,783
views
views
14
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
60,690
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views
15
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
51,999
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views
16
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
48,382
views
views
17
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
48,031
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views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
44,146
views
views
19
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
42,746
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
41,646
views
views
21
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
41,065
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
35,849
views
views
23
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
35,385
views
views
24
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
35,051
views
views
25
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
34,436
views
views
26
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
33,790
views
views
27
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
33,481
views
views
28
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
32,705
views
views
29
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
30,504
views
views
30
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
29,478
views
views
31
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
29,439
views
views
32
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
28,814
views
views
33
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
27,659
views
views
34
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
27,574
views
views
35
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
27,116
views
views
36
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
25,954
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
25,842
views
views
38
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,680
views
views
39
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
25,096
views
views
40
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
25,016
views
views
41
Matthew Mercer
American actor
24,359
views
views
42
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
23,598
views
views
43
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
23,392
views
views
44
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
22,898
views
views
45
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
22,780
views
views
46
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
22,762
views
views
47
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
22,435
views
views
48
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
22,326
views
views
49
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
21,876
views
views
50
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
21,351
views
views
51
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,212
views
views
52
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
21,125
views
views
53
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
20,321
views
views
54
Artemy Lebedev
Russian designer
18,875
views
views
55
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
18,871
views
views
56
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
18,833
views
views
57
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
18,629
views
views
58
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
18,465
views
views
59
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
18,022
views
views
60
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
17,528
views
views
61
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
17,453
views
views
62
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
16,587
views
views
63
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
16,348
views
views
64
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
16,078
views
views
65
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
15,745
views
views
66
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
15,324
views
views
67
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
15,182
views
views
68
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
14,844
views
views
69
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
14,712
views
views
70
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
14,471
views
views
71
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
14,461
views
views
72
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
14,410
views
views
73
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
14,306
views
views
74
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
14,305
views
views
75
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
14,087
views
views
76
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
13,648
views
views
77
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
13,627
views
views
78
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
13,451
views
views
79
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
13,129
views
views
80
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
12,823
views
views
81
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
12,514
views
views
82
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
12,412
views
views
83
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
12,390
views
views
84
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
12,231
views
views
85
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
12,156
views
views
86
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
11,993
views
views
87
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
11,894
views
views
88
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
11,893
views
views
89
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
11,429
views
views
90
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
11,313
views
views
91
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
11,277
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
11,039
views
views
93
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
10,907
views
views
94
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
10,577
views
views
95
Willis Carrier
American inventor (1876–1950)
10,564
views
views
96
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
10,488
views
views
97
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
10,453
views
views
98
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
10,420
views
views
99
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
10,008
views
views
100
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
9,931
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