Trending Engineers — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed engineers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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4,515,178
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
341,274
views
views
2
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
313,845
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
128,620
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
120,380
views
views
5
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
106,716
views
views
6
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
103,111
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
86,657
views
views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
85,344
views
views
9
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
84,326
views
views
10
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
83,867
views
views
11
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
82,091
views
views
12
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
80,979
views
views
13
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
80,852
views
views
14
Manuel Alexander Otto
A German computer game developer. He developed the Flash game "Stick Run", which was released on Facebook in C.E.2010.
77,408
views
views
15
John Krasinski
American actor and filmmaker (born 1979)
74,675
views
views
16
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
74,047
views
views
17
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
70,891
views
views
18
Osama bin Laden
founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
65,858
views
views
19
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
61,227
views
views
20
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
54,996
views
views
21
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
52,748
views
views
22
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
51,279
views
views
23
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
50,445
views
views
24
Rafael Rodríguez Rapún
Spanish football player, actor and soldier (lieutenant)
46,996
views
views
25
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
46,697
views
views
26
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
46,416
views
views
27
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
46,323
views
views
28
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
46,216
views
views
29
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
44,386
views
views
30
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
43,954
views
views
31
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
43,703
views
views
32
Freddy Krueger
the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series
43,666
views
views
33
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
43,620
views
views
34
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
42,807
views
views
35
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
42,417
views
views
36
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
40,404
views
views
37
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
39,183
views
views
38
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
37,927
views
views
39
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
37,539
views
views
40
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
37,314
views
views
41
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
37,128
views
views
42
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
36,927
views
views
43
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
36,799
views
views
44
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
36,599
views
views
45
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
34,431
views
views
46
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
34,380
views
views
47
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
32,210
views
views
48
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
31,865
views
views
49
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
31,734
views
views
50
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
31,223
views
views
51
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
30,435
views
views
52
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
29,970
views
views
53
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
29,823
views
views
54
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
29,509
views
views
55
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
28,703
views
views
56
Kemi Badenoch
British politician and Leader of the Opposition to the British Government (2024–present) and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2024 (born 1980)
28,085
views
views
57
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
27,491
views
views
58
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
26,698
views
views
59
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
25,683
views
views
60
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
25,568
views
views
61
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
25,435
views
views
62
Bill Nye
American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and mechanical engineer
25,327
views
views
63
David Mitchell (comedian)
British actor, comedian and writer
24,882
views
views
64
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
24,785
views
views
65
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
24,733
views
views
66
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
23,552
views
views
67
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
23,436
views
views
68
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
23,331
views
views
69
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
23,121
views
views
70
Dr. Dre
American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
22,881
views
views
71
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
22,746
views
views
72
Christina Koch
American astronaut (born 1979)
21,928
views
views
73
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
21,673
views
views
74
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
21,516
views
views
75
Kenneth Bigley
British civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004
21,046
views
views
76
Eric Schmidt
software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
20,759
views
views
77
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
20,683
views
views
78
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
20,180
views
views
79
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
20,168
views
views
80
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
19,701
views
views
81
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
19,667
views
views
82
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
19,489
views
views
83
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
19,411
views
views
84
Tim Cook
American business executive, former Apple executive chairman
19,307
views
views
85
John Ternus
CEO of Apple
19,241
views
views
86
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
19,227
views
views
87
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
19,206
views
views
88
Miguel Díaz-Canel
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
19,136
views
views
89
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
19,012
views
views
90
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
18,975
views
views
91
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
18,927
views
views
92
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
18,520
views
views
93
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
18,481
views
views
94
Shahid Khan
American businessman (born 1950)
18,468
views
views
95
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
18,354
views
views
96
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
18,306
views
views
97
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
18,300
views
views
98
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
18,296
views
views
99
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
18,270
views
views
100
Maud Bregeon
French politician
18,237
views
views