Trending Inventors in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed inventors this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
1,748,684
Total Views (this month)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
151,725
views
views
2
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
96,130
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
67,480
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
61,143
views
views
5
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
53,957
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
45,885
views
views
7
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
40,205
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
36,942
views
views
9
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
35,672
views
views
10
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
35,016
views
views
11
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
34,704
views
views
12
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
34,453
views
views
13
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
34,268
views
views
14
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
32,820
views
views
15
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
28,802
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
25,123
views
views
17
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
24,643
views
views
18
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
23,717
views
views
19
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
22,968
views
views
20
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
22,748
views
views
21
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
22,742
views
views
22
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
22,196
views
views
23
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
21,876
views
views
24
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,171
views
views
25
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
20,906
views
views
26
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
20,583
views
views
27
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
20,262
views
views
28
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
19,261
views
views
29
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
18,555
views
views
30
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
16,300
views
views
31
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
16,206
views
views
32
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
16,088
views
views
33
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
15,771
views
views
34
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
14,534
views
views
35
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
14,384
views
views
36
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
13,983
views
views
37
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
13,794
views
views
38
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
13,773
views
views
39
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
13,444
views
views
40
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
13,276
views
views
41
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
13,253
views
views
42
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,154
views
views
43
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
13,079
views
views
44
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
12,984
views
views
45
Matthew Mercer
American actor
12,753
views
views
46
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
12,681
views
views
47
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
12,474
views
views
48
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
11,878
views
views
49
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
11,808
views
views
50
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
11,753
views
views
51
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
11,659
views
views
52
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
10,437
views
views
53
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
10,255
views
views
54
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
10,178
views
views
55
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
10,139
views
views
56
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
9,741
views
views
57
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
9,290
views
views
58
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
9,224
views
views
59
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
8,886
views
views
60
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
8,815
views
views
61
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
8,349
views
views
62
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
8,114
views
views
63
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
7,987
views
views
64
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
7,949
views
views
65
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
7,814
views
views
66
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
7,807
views
views
67
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
7,724
views
views
68
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
7,644
views
views
69
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
7,643
views
views
70
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
7,580
views
views
71
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,424
views
views
72
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
7,370
views
views
73
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
7,332
views
views
74
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
7,261
views
views
75
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,200
views
views
76
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
7,081
views
views
77
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
7,021
views
views
78
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
6,944
views
views
79
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,937
views
views
80
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
6,772
views
views
81
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
6,675
views
views
82
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
6,658
views
views
83
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
6,647
views
views
84
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
6,318
views
views
85
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,205
views
views
86
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
6,136
views
views
87
Ash Williams
fictional character from the Evil Dead series
6,021
views
views
88
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
5,922
views
views
89
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
5,865
views
views
90
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
5,848
views
views
91
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
5,715
views
views
92
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
5,644
views
views
93
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
5,586
views
views
94
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
5,565
views
views
95
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
5,452
views
views
96
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852–1943)
5,397
views
views
97
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
5,379
views
views
98
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
5,306
views
views
99
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
5,233
views
views
100
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
5,212
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