Trending Engineers of all time
The 100 most-viewed engineers of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
1,038,758
Total Views (of all time)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
197,020
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2
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
52,982
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3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
47,174
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4
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
40,528
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views
5
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
33,888
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views
6
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
31,828
views
views
7
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
30,934
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views
8
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
29,068
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views
9
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
26,367
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views
10
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
23,988
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views
11
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
19,793
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views
12
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
19,088
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13
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
19,069
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14
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
16,759
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views
15
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
16,461
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16
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
14,339
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views
17
Lisa Su
American business executive and electrical engineer
12,477
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views
18
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
11,559
views
views
19
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
11,139
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views
20
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
10,959
views
views
21
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
10,731
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22
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
10,161
views
views
23
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
10,107
views
views
24
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
9,800
views
views
25
Jack Welch
American executive: General Electric CEO (1935–2020)
9,569
views
views
26
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
9,392
views
views
27
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,142
views
views
28
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
8,733
views
views
29
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
8,511
views
views
30
Naoko Takeuchi
Japanese manga artist (born 1967)
8,407
views
views
31
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
8,358
views
views
32
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
8,040
views
views
33
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
7,428
views
views
34
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)
6,732
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views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
6,696
views
views
36
Gene Kranz
NASA Flight Director and manager
6,393
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views
37
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
5,789
views
views
38
Frances Northcutt
NASA Trajectory Engineer Houston
5,729
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views
39
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
5,712
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views
40
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
5,619
views
views
41
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
5,492
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views
42
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
5,174
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views
43
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
5,022
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views
44
Ed White
American astronaut (1930-1967)
5,005
views
views
45
Fred Dibnah
English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
4,975
views
views
46
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
4,598
views
views
47
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
4,561
views
views
48
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
4,560
views
views
49
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
4,504
views
views
50
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
4,384
views
views
51
Eugene Cernan
NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and
4,207
views
views
52
Leonid Kuchma
the second president of Ukraine
4,144
views
views
53
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
4,104
views
views
54
Sergei Krikalev
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
4,037
views
views
55
Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
4,035
views
views
56
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
4,012
views
views
57
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
3,911
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views
58
Frank Borman
American astronaut (1928–2023)
3,891
views
views
59
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
3,805
views
views
60
Karla Sofía Gascón
Spanish actress
3,736
views
views
61
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
3,718
views
views
62
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
3,672
views
views
63
Wizard of Oz
character from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3,663
views
views
64
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
3,656
views
views
65
Christian von Koenigsegg
Swedish automotive manufacturer
3,593
views
views
66
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco
Moroccan royal
3,523
views
views
67
Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician (1904-1980)
3,515
views
views
68
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
3,502
views
views
69
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
3,438
views
views
70
Odilon Redon
French painter (1840–1916)
3,426
views
views
71
Eugene Chaplin
Swiss recording engineer
3,390
views
views
72
Tim Cook
American business executive, Apple CEO
3,366
views
views
73
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,319
views
views
74
Thomas Massie
American politician
3,283
views
views
75
Philip Luty
English gunsmith and gun rights activist
3,237
views
views
76
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
3,131
views
views
77
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor (1906–1971)
3,107
views
views
78
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,089
views
views
79
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
3,028
views
views
80
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
3,002
views
views
81
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
2,994
views
views
82
Nigel Godrich
English record producer and sound engineer
2,988
views
views
83
Didi Senft
German inventor and cycling fan
2,986
views
views
84
John Tobias
American artist and video game designer
2,974
views
views
85
Nevil Shute
British writer and engineer (1899–1960)
2,941
views
views
86
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
2,914
views
views
87
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Dutch engineer, consultant and art collector (1890–1978)
2,873
views
views
88
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
2,865
views
views
89
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
2,863
views
views
90
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,859
views
views
91
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Glyn Johns
English musician, recording engineer and record producer
2,832
views
views
92
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
2,802
views
views
93
Jeff Dean
American computer scientist
2,790
views
views
94
John Ternus
Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering
2,774
views
views
95
Loren Bouchard
American director and musician
2,713
views
views
96
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
2,711
views
views
97
Amadeo Bordiga
Italian politician (1889-1970)
2,690
views
views
98
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
2,647
views
views
99
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,643
views
views
100
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,615
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