Trending Engineers — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed engineers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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30,771,432
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
1,725,498
views
views
2
Osama bin Laden
founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
1,471,214
views
views
3
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
1,209,074
views
views
4
Mohamed Atta
Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)
898,717
views
views
5
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
882,892
views
views
6
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
856,719
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
815,240
views
views
8
John Ternus
CEO of Apple
778,346
views
views
9
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
718,682
views
views
10
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
583,604
views
views
11
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
571,385
views
views
12
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
533,607
views
views
13
Tim Cook
American business executive, former Apple executive chairman
508,297
views
views
14
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
481,005
views
views
15
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
473,023
views
views
16
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
449,063
views
views
17
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
444,566
views
views
18
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
434,393
views
views
19
John Krasinski
American actor and filmmaker (born 1979)
428,597
views
views
20
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
418,788
views
views
21
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
411,060
views
views
22
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
405,496
views
views
23
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
378,730
views
views
24
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
373,255
views
views
25
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
371,261
views
views
26
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
365,100
views
views
27
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
355,580
views
views
28
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
349,948
views
views
29
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
333,460
views
views
30
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
327,612
views
views
31
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
316,818
views
views
32
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
315,440
views
views
33
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
298,387
views
views
34
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
288,832
views
views
35
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
282,432
views
views
36
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
271,776
views
views
37
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
253,013
views
views
38
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
248,732
views
views
39
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
246,745
views
views
40
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
245,442
views
views
41
Dr. Dre
American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
240,265
views
views
42
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
229,276
views
views
43
David Mitchell (comedian)
British actor, comedian and writer
228,642
views
views
44
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
223,768
views
views
45
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
221,219
views
views
46
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
218,870
views
views
47
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
218,746
views
views
48
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
217,744
views
views
49
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
212,534
views
views
50
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
206,931
views
views
51
Thomas Massie
American politician
201,001
views
views
52
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
196,069
views
views
53
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
195,326
views
views
54
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
193,039
views
views
55
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
193,002
views
views
56
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
186,184
views
views
57
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
184,370
views
views
58
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
179,698
views
views
59
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)
174,821
views
views
60
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
173,812
views
views
61
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
173,432
views
views
62
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
170,737
views
views
63
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
168,345
views
views
64
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
166,074
views
views
65
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
161,585
views
views
66
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
161,403
views
views
67
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
157,953
views
views
68
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
156,642
views
views
69
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
155,293
views
views
70
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
154,622
views
views
71
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
152,811
views
views
72
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
145,702
views
views
73
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
144,281
views
views
74
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
143,050
views
views
75
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
141,820
views
views
76
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
141,538
views
views
77
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
139,903
views
views
78
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
139,341
views
views
79
Abdulaziz al-Omari
9/11 hijacker
138,401
views
views
80
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
135,997
views
views
81
António Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
134,649
views
views
82
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
131,909
views
views
83
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
131,604
views
views
84
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
130,478
views
views
85
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
129,762
views
views
86
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
128,917
views
views
87
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
128,883
views
views
88
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
127,072
views
views
89
Jiang Zemin
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)
126,211
views
views
90
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
125,999
views
views
91
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
125,316
views
views
92
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
124,906
views
views
93
Balendra Shah
Nepalese rapper and politician; Prime Minister of Nepal since 2026
124,258
views
views
94
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
123,903
views
views
95
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
123,529
views
views
96
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
119,477
views
views
97
Arsène Wenger
French football manager (born 1949)
117,484
views
views
98
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
117,176
views
views
99
Alan Scott
fictional superhero of the DC Comics Universe
116,985
views
views
100
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist (1937–2024)
116,838
views
views