Trending Inventors in China — May 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, May 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 30 June 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Chinese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of China. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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16,184
Total Views (May 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
5,155
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views
2
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
702
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views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
674
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
579
views
views
5
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
547
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views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
451
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
327
views
views
8
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
315
views
views
9
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
296
views
views
10
Run Run Shaw
Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)
248
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views
11
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
244
views
views
12
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
239
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views
13
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
233
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views
14
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
229
views
views
15
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
189
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views
16
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
183
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views
17
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
179
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views
18
Yuan Longping
Chinese biologist (1930-2021)
174
views
views
19
Roh Moo-hyun
16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946–2009)
169
views
views
20
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
162
views
views
21
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
157
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
148
views
views
23
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
142
views
views
24
Kai-Fu Lee
Taiwanese businessman
138
views
views
25
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
132
views
views
26
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
120
views
views
27
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
112
views
views
28
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
107
views
views
29
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
103
views
views
30
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
96
views
views
31
Stark Chan
Hong Kong businessman
87
views
views
32
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
84
views
views
33
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
84
views
views
34
Cai Lun
Chinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)
84
views
views
35
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
82
views
views
36
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
81
views
views
37
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
78
views
views
38
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
77
views
views
39
Jiankui He
Chinese biophysicist (1984-)
75
views
views
40
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
72
views
views
41
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
71
views
views
42
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
69
views
views
43
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
68
views
views
44
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
67
views
views
45
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
66
views
views
46
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
63
views
views
47
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
62
views
views
48
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
62
views
views
49
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
61
views
views
50
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
60
views
views
51
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
60
views
views
52
Chu Bong-Foo
Chinese inventor of the Cangjie method
60
views
views
53
Cangjie
legendary inventor of the Chinese writing system, historian
59
views
views
54
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
58
views
views
55
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
58
views
views
56
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139)
58
views
views
57
Cai Haoyu
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
57
views
views
58
Robin Li
billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
56
views
views
59
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
56
views
views
60
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
55
views
views
61
Liu Wei
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
55
views
views
62
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
54
views
views
63
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
54
views
views
64
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer
52
views
views
65
James Naismith
Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
51
views
views
66
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
50
views
views
67
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
49
views
views
68
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
49
views
views
69
Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born inventor (1840-1916)
47
views
views
70
Seishoujo
Japanese illustrator
46
views
views
71
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
44
views
views
72
Wan Hu
legendary Chinese official
44
views
views
73
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
43
views
views
74
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
42
views
views
75
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
41
views
views
76
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
40
views
views
77
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
40
views
views
78
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
39
views
views
79
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
38
views
views
80
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
38
views
views
81
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
37
views
views
82
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
37
views
views
83
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
37
views
views
84
Bulma
fictional character from Dragon Ball
37
views
views
85
Chiyomaru Shikura
Japanese lyricist, composer, writer, and game developer (1970-)
37
views
views
86
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
36
views
views
87
Leizu
Legendary Chinese empress, consort of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of silk and sericulture
35
views
views
88
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
35
views
views
89
Ryukishi07
Japanese writer
35
views
views
90
Fumiaki Maruto
Japanese novelist
34
views
views
91
Suiren
Fire maker in Chinese mythology
34
views
views
92
Hideki Kamiya
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
34
views
views
93
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
34
views
views
94
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
34
views
views
95
John Browning
firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)
33
views
views
96
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
33
views
views
97
John Pemberton
American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831-1888)
32
views
views
98
Bi Sheng
inventor and printer (990-1052)
32
views
views
99
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
31
views
views
100
Kim Hyung-tae
South Korean video game illustrator
31
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