Trending Engineers this year
The 100 most-viewed engineers this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
4,819,932
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)
227,574
views
views
2
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
134,286
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
123,581
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
123,010
views
views
5
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
117,198
views
views
6
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
104,467
views
views
7
George Washington
founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
102,821
views
views
8
Thomas Massie
American politician
98,546
views
views
9
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
85,371
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
80,251
views
views
11
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
80,236
views
views
12
Osama bin Laden
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
79,443
views
views
13
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
77,399
views
views
14
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
76,682
views
views
15
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
74,685
views
views
16
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
72,610
views
views
17
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
72,025
views
views
18
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
69,053
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
69,013
views
views
20
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
65,627
views
views
21
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
63,396
views
views
22
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
63,220
views
views
23
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
61,814
views
views
24
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
61,539
views
views
25
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
60,906
views
views
26
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
60,045
views
views
27
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
58,634
views
views
28
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
58,023
views
views
29
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
55,953
views
views
30
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
54,802
views
views
31
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
53,500
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
53,132
views
views
33
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
52,994
views
views
34
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
52,760
views
views
35
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
51,420
views
views
36
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
50,735
views
views
37
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
49,473
views
views
38
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
49,278
views
views
39
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
45,136
views
views
40
Piero Ferrari
Italian engineer
42,851
views
views
41
Dr. Dre
American record producer and rapper (born 1965)
42,270
views
views
42
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
42,225
views
views
43
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
41,763
views
views
44
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
41,122
views
views
45
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
39,678
views
views
46
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
39,322
views
views
47
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
37,178
views
views
48
Tim Cook
American business executive
36,717
views
views
49
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
36,408
views
views
50
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
36,166
views
views
51
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
36,115
views
views
52
Franz Reichelt
Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer
35,989
views
views
53
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
35,982
views
views
54
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
35,963
views
views
55
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
35,814
views
views
56
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
35,482
views
views
57
Lisa Su
American business executive and electrical engineer
35,439
views
views
58
Sif Eddine
Spanish businessman, president of Real Madrid
35,430
views
views
59
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
35,276
views
views
60
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
35,129
views
views
61
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist and statesman (1931–2015)
34,475
views
views
62
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
34,028
views
views
63
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
33,306
views
views
64
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
32,870
views
views
65
John Ternus
Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering
32,432
views
views
66
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
31,761
views
views
67
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
31,553
views
views
68
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
30,106
views
views
69
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
30,101
views
views
70
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
29,925
views
views
71
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
29,699
views
views
72
Hu Jintao
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
29,531
views
views
73
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
28,853
views
views
74
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
27,736
views
views
75
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
26,955
views
views
76
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
26,591
views
views
77
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
26,228
views
views
78
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
26,083
views
views
79
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
25,503
views
views
80
Miguel Díaz-Canel
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
25,304
views
views
81
Anatoly Dyatlov
deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the time of the disaster (1931-1995)
25,214
views
views
82
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
24,981
views
views
83
Christina Koch
American astronaut
24,864
views
views
84
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
24,262
views
views
85
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
24,012
views
views
86
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
23,927
views
views
87
Lucian Freud
British painter and agravar (1922-2011)
23,760
views
views
88
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013
22,919
views
views
89
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
21,955
views
views
90
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
21,595
views
views
91
Jiang Zemin
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)
21,398
views
views
92
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
21,342
views
views
93
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
21,274
views
views
94
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
21,038
views
views
95
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
20,948
views
views
96
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
20,474
views
views
97
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
20,451
views
views
98
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
19,967
views
views
99
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
19,958
views
views
100
Michael Shank
American racing driver
19,596
views
views