Trending Inventors in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed inventors this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Spider-Man.
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Ranked
1,075,061
Total Views (this week)
1
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
98,582
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2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
82,231
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3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
41,288
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4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
40,127
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5
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
32,322
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6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
26,878
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views
7
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
22,820
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views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
22,109
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9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
21,236
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10
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
21,113
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11
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
20,711
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12
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
20,627
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views
13
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
19,962
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14
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
19,952
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15
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
19,474
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16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
14,663
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views
17
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
14,320
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views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
13,934
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views
19
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
13,927
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views
20
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
13,071
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views
21
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
12,523
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views
22
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
12,492
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views
23
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
12,034
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views
24
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
11,778
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25
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
11,767
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views
26
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
10,843
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views
27
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
10,254
views
views
28
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
10,115
views
views
29
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,852
views
views
30
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
9,666
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views
31
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,553
views
views
32
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
9,205
views
views
33
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
8,976
views
views
34
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
8,897
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views
35
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8,492
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views
36
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
8,280
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views
37
Gary Dahl
American businessman
8,244
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views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
8,161
views
views
39
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
8,147
views
views
40
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
7,981
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views
41
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
7,928
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views
42
Matthew Mercer
American actor
7,869
views
views
43
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
7,760
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views
44
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
7,684
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views
45
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
7,658
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views
46
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
7,645
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views
47
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
7,126
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views
48
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
7,026
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views
49
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
7,012
views
views
50
Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
6,269
views
views
51
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
6,203
views
views
52
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
6,168
views
views
53
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
6,017
views
views
54
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
5,730
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views
55
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
5,623
views
views
56
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,560
views
views
57
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
5,449
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views
58
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
5,365
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views
59
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
5,360
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views
60
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
5,262
views
views
61
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
5,183
views
views
62
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
5,181
views
views
63
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
5,148
views
views
64
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
5,130
views
views
65
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,957
views
views
66
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
4,914
views
views
67
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
4,856
views
views
68
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
4,818
views
views
69
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
4,760
views
views
70
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
4,746
views
views
71
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
4,709
views
views
72
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,694
views
views
73
Otto Octavius
2002-2007 Spider-Man film series character
4,651
views
views
74
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
4,647
views
views
75
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
4,559
views
views
76
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,522
views
views
77
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
4,372
views
views
78
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
4,350
views
views
79
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
4,315
views
views
80
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
4,290
views
views
81
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
4,233
views
views
82
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,127
views
views
83
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
4,074
views
views
84
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
4,044
views
views
85
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
3,920
views
views
86
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,886
views
views
87
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
3,695
views
views
88
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
3,677
views
views
89
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,634
views
views
90
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
3,628
views
views
91
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
3,609
views
views
92
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
3,576
views
views
93
Jack LaLanne
American exercise instructor (1914–2011)
3,567
views
views
94
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,470
views
views
95
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
3,417
views
views
96
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
3,384
views
views
97
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
3,299
views
views
98
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
3,294
views
views
99
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852–1943)
3,206
views
views
100
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,198
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