Trending Inventors in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Levi Strauss.
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Ranked
74,471
Total Views (this year)
1
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
13,796
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2
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
5,846
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3
Jacob W. Davis
American tailor (1831–1908)
3,981
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4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
3,377
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views
5
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
3,136
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views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
1,812
views
views
7
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
1,775
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
1,771
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views
9
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
1,432
views
views
10
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
1,406
views
views
11
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,342
views
views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
1,103
views
views
13
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
1,003
views
views
14
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
836
views
views
15
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
822
views
views
16
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
781
views
views
17
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
776
views
views
18
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
757
views
views
19
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
741
views
views
20
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
711
views
views
21
Konrad Zuse
German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
682
views
views
22
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
677
views
views
23
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
674
views
views
24
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
672
views
views
25
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
656
views
views
26
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
632
views
views
27
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
609
views
views
28
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
604
views
views
29
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
603
views
views
30
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
584
views
views
31
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
551
views
views
32
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
545
views
views
33
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
545
views
views
34
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
537
views
views
35
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
532
views
views
36
Majid Samii
Iranian neurosurgeon
526
views
views
37
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
509
views
views
38
Peter Madsen
Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer
506
views
views
39
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
504
views
views
40
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
467
views
views
41
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
460
views
views
42
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
457
views
views
43
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
416
views
views
44
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
410
views
views
45
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
406
views
views
46
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
405
views
views
47
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
395
views
views
48
Ferdinand Piëch
Austrian manager (1937-2019)
394
views
views
49
Christian Freeling
Dutch board game designer
371
views
views
50
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
371
views
views
51
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
365
views
views
52
Otto Lilienthal
German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
353
views
views
53
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
351
views
views
54
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
315
views
views
55
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
313
views
views
56
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
312
views
views
57
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)
310
views
views
58
Daniel Swarovski
Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862–1956)
310
views
views
59
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
301
views
views
60
Jeff Kinney
American author and cartoonist (born 1971)
300
views
views
61
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
295
views
views
62
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
291
views
views
63
Hermann Honnef
German inventor and engineer (1878-1961)
285
views
views
64
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
262
views
views
65
Erik Wallenberg
Swedish scientist (1915-1999)
254
views
views
66
Andy Bechtolsheim
German electrical engineer (born 1955)
251
views
views
67
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
251
views
views
68
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
249
views
views
69
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
248
views
views
70
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
242
views
views
71
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
227
views
views
72
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
217
views
views
73
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
216
views
views
74
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
210
views
views
75
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
208
views
views
76
Manfred von Ardenne
German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)
205
views
views
77
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
203
views
views
78
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
203
views
views
79
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
202
views
views
80
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
202
views
views
81
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
200
views
views
82
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
199
views
views
83
Otto von Guericke
German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)
199
views
views
84
Winfried Stöcker
German medical specialist, entrepreneur and university teacher
197
views
views
85
Björn Pankratz
German video game developer
194
views
views
86
Ron Ringguth
German reporter
193
views
views
87
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
191
views
views
88
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
190
views
views
89
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
188
views
views
90
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
179
views
views
91
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
176
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
172
views
views
93
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
171
views
views
94
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
170
views
views
95
Alfred Krupp
German entrepreneur and inventor (1812–1887)
170
views
views
96
Gaston Glock
Austrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock (1929–2023)
168
views
views
97
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
166
views
views
98
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
166
views
views
99
David Dunbar Buick
Scottish-American inventor
164
views
views
100
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
163
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