Trending Engineers in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed engineers this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
5,061,599
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
260,119
views
views
2
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
169,531
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
123,882
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
121,007
views
views
5
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
119,953
views
views
6
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
118,375
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
114,507
views
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
106,888
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
100,200
views
views
10
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
97,122
views
views
11
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
96,249
views
views
12
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
85,491
views
views
13
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
81,965
views
views
14
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
79,673
views
views
15
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist and statesman (1931–2015)
79,336
views
views
16
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
79,168
views
views
17
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
78,842
views
views
18
Osama bin Laden
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
77,733
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
70,610
views
views
20
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
67,983
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
65,344
views
views
22
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
64,756
views
views
23
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
63,818
views
views
24
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
62,151
views
views
25
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
61,170
views
views
26
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
60,986
views
views
27
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
60,615
views
views
28
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
59,457
views
views
29
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
57,465
views
views
30
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
57,132
views
views
31
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
54,677
views
views
32
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
51,928
views
views
33
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
51,034
views
views
34
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
48,119
views
views
35
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
47,842
views
views
36
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
47,035
views
views
37
Dr. Dre
American record producer and rapper (born 1965)
45,932
views
views
38
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
44,623
views
views
39
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
44,309
views
views
40
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
43,820
views
views
41
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
42,314
views
views
42
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
42,229
views
views
43
Thomas Massie
American politician
41,615
views
views
44
Tim Cook
American business executive, Apple CEO
41,404
views
views
45
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
41,061
views
views
46
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
41,051
views
views
47
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
39,920
views
views
48
John Ternus
Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering
39,869
views
views
49
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
39,635
views
views
50
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
37,995
views
views
51
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
37,115
views
views
52
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
36,565
views
views
53
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
36,060
views
views
54
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
35,407
views
views
55
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
35,155
views
views
56
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
34,771
views
views
57
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
34,654
views
views
58
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
33,782
views
views
59
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
33,640
views
views
60
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
33,598
views
views
61
Satya Nadella
Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
32,749
views
views
62
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
32,597
views
views
63
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
32,471
views
views
64
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
32,229
views
views
65
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
31,981
views
views
66
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
31,534
views
views
67
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
31,313
views
views
68
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
31,131
views
views
69
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
31,038
views
views
70
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
30,905
views
views
71
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
30,698
views
views
72
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024)
29,992
views
views
73
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
29,959
views
views
74
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
29,546
views
views
75
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
28,742
views
views
76
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
28,461
views
views
77
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
27,115
views
views
78
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
26,751
views
views
79
Susana Higuchi
Peruvian politician (1950–2021)
26,171
views
views
80
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
26,063
views
views
81
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
25,900
views
views
82
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
25,729
views
views
83
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
25,682
views
views
84
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,663
views
views
85
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
25,523
views
views
86
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
25,401
views
views
87
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
25,197
views
views
88
Manuel Noriega
Panamanian head of state (1934-2017)
24,838
views
views
89
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
24,699
views
views
90
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
24,554
views
views
91
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
24,080
views
views
92
Matthew Mercer
American actor
24,077
views
views
93
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
23,661
views
views
94
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
23,261
views
views
95
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
22,865
views
views
96
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
22,725
views
views
97
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
22,244
views
views
98
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
21,880
views
views
99
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
21,750
views
views
100
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
21,737
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