Trending Inventors — all time
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Christopher Columbus. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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7,673,372
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
549,651
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
438,798
views
views
3
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
378,021
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
278,331
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
210,370
views
views
6
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
206,189
views
views
7
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
190,052
views
views
8
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
187,604
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
182,367
views
views
10
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
162,816
views
views
11
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
150,508
views
views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
147,371
views
views
13
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
141,639
views
views
14
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
139,076
views
views
15
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
134,303
views
views
16
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
130,501
views
views
17
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
128,673
views
views
18
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
114,983
views
views
19
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
111,522
views
views
20
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
109,389
views
views
21
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
101,129
views
views
22
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
95,167
views
views
23
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
93,801
views
views
24
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
93,005
views
views
25
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
89,510
views
views
26
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
88,791
views
views
27
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
79,310
views
views
28
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
77,001
views
views
29
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
74,549
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
73,646
views
views
31
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
70,881
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
70,823
views
views
33
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
68,802
views
views
34
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
68,721
views
views
35
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
68,606
views
views
36
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
66,310
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
62,550
views
views
38
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
61,901
views
views
39
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
60,898
views
views
40
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
60,526
views
views
41
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
58,387
views
views
42
Richard Gray
American video game designer (1957–2026)
58,226
views
views
43
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
55,418
views
views
44
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
54,609
views
views
45
Matthew Mercer
American actor
52,388
views
views
46
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
51,264
views
views
47
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
48,807
views
views
48
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
48,527
views
views
49
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
48,518
views
views
50
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
47,892
views
views
51
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
47,730
views
views
52
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
47,070
views
views
53
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
44,631
views
views
54
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
43,221
views
views
55
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
41,520
views
views
56
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
41,392
views
views
57
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
41,013
views
views
58
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
40,857
views
views
59
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
39,952
views
views
60
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
38,566
views
views
61
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
36,603
views
views
62
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
35,450
views
views
63
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
33,186
views
views
64
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
33,102
views
views
65
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
33,091
views
views
66
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
32,338
views
views
67
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
32,181
views
views
68
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
31,858
views
views
69
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
30,851
views
views
70
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
30,809
views
views
71
Nellie Bly
American journalist
30,542
views
views
72
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
29,766
views
views
73
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
29,520
views
views
74
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
29,135
views
views
75
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
28,849
views
views
76
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
28,570
views
views
77
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
28,384
views
views
78
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
27,781
views
views
79
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
27,620
views
views
80
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
26,971
views
views
81
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
26,508
views
views
82
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
26,410
views
views
83
Tim Sweeney
American game developer (born 1970)
25,910
views
views
84
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
25,700
views
views
85
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
25,356
views
views
86
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
25,214
views
views
87
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
24,938
views
views
88
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
24,816
views
views
89
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
24,782
views
views
90
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
24,763
views
views
91
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
24,666
views
views
92
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
24,082
views
views
93
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
23,933
views
views
94
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
23,573
views
views
95
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
23,567
views
views
96
Richard Fuisz
American physician
23,285
views
views
97
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
23,175
views
views
98
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
22,706
views
views
99
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
22,665
views
views
100
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
22,637
views
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