Trending Inventors in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
2,990,782
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
260,119
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
121,007
views
views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
118,375
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
114,507
views
views
5
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
85,491
views
views
6
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
81,965
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
79,673
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
70,610
views
views
9
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
65,344
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views
10
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
64,756
views
views
11
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
63,818
views
views
12
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
62,151
views
views
13
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
60,986
views
views
14
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
57,465
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views
15
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
47,842
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views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
44,623
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views
17
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
42,229
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views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
41,061
views
views
19
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
41,051
views
views
20
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
37,995
views
views
21
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
37,115
views
views
22
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
33,598
views
views
23
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
32,597
views
views
24
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
32,471
views
views
25
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
32,229
views
views
26
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
31,534
views
views
27
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
31,131
views
views
28
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
29,959
views
views
29
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
29,546
views
views
30
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
28,461
views
views
31
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
27,115
views
views
32
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
26,751
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views
33
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
26,063
views
views
34
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
25,729
views
views
35
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,663
views
views
36
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
25,401
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
24,699
views
views
38
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
24,554
views
views
39
Matthew Mercer
American actor
24,077
views
views
40
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
23,661
views
views
41
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
22,244
views
views
42
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
21,737
views
views
43
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
21,689
views
views
44
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
21,239
views
views
45
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,212
views
views
46
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
20,945
views
views
47
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
20,595
views
views
48
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
20,580
views
views
49
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
20,566
views
views
50
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
20,256
views
views
51
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
19,340
views
views
52
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
19,270
views
views
53
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
18,748
views
views
54
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
17,674
views
views
55
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
17,435
views
views
56
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
17,171
views
views
57
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
17,076
views
views
58
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
16,854
views
views
59
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
15,552
views
views
60
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
14,753
views
views
61
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
14,691
views
views
62
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
14,253
views
views
63
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
14,236
views
views
64
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
14,235
views
views
65
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
14,169
views
views
66
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
14,079
views
views
67
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
14,066
views
views
68
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
13,955
views
views
69
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
13,682
views
views
70
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
13,563
views
views
71
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
13,383
views
views
72
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
12,996
views
views
73
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,995
views
views
74
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
12,535
views
views
75
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
12,389
views
views
76
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
12,367
views
views
77
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
12,227
views
views
78
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
11,951
views
views
79
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
11,938
views
views
80
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
11,917
views
views
81
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
11,611
views
views
82
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
11,499
views
views
83
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
10,960
views
views
84
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
10,920
views
views
85
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
10,909
views
views
86
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
10,888
views
views
87
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
10,627
views
views
88
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
10,455
views
views
89
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
10,340
views
views
90
Willis Carrier
American inventor (1876–1950)
10,321
views
views
91
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
10,301
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
10,282
views
views
93
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
10,279
views
views
94
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
10,168
views
views
95
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
9,996
views
views
96
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
9,685
views
views
97
Steve Urkel
fictional character on the sitcom Family Matters
9,650
views
views
98
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
9,457
views
views
99
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
9,235
views
views
100
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
9,214
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