Trending Inventors of all time
The 100 most-viewed inventors of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
596,524
Total Views (of all time)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
197,020
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2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
47,174
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views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
30,934
views
views
4
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
23,988
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views
5
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
19,069
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views
6
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
16,461
views
views
7
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
14,339
views
views
8
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
10,107
views
views
9
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
9,800
views
views
10
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
9,392
views
views
11
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,142
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views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
8,511
views
views
13
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
8,358
views
views
14
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
8,040
views
views
15
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
7,428
views
views
16
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
5,712
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views
17
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
5,619
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views
18
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
19
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
5,022
views
views
20
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
4,560
views
views
21
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
4,384
views
views
22
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
4,104
views
views
23
Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
4,035
views
views
24
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
4,012
views
views
25
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
3,911
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views
26
Wizard of Oz
character from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3,663
views
views
27
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
3,131
views
views
28
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor (1906–1971)
3,107
views
views
29
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,089
views
views
30
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
3,028
views
views
31
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
2,994
views
views
32
Didi Senft
German inventor and cycling fan
2,986
views
views
33
John Tobias
American artist and video game designer
2,974
views
views
34
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
2,914
views
views
35
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,859
views
views
36
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
2,711
views
views
37
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
2,647
views
views
38
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,643
views
views
39
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,615
views
views
40
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
2,406
views
views
41
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
2,285
views
views
42
Robert Moog
American electronic music pioneer and inventor (1934-2005)
2,073
views
views
43
Bennett Foddy
Australian video game developer and philosopher
2,023
views
views
44
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
2,019
views
views
45
Garrett Morgan
American inventor (1877–1963)
2,010
views
views
46
Jacob W. Davis
American tailor (1831–1908)
1,978
views
views
47
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
1,930
views
views
48
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
1,895
views
views
49
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
1,890
views
views
50
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
1,881
views
views
51
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
1,879
views
views
52
Kazutaka Kodaka
Japanese video game designer and writer
1,869
views
views
53
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
1,799
views
views
54
Clive Sinclair
English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)
1,780
views
views
55
Dave Arneson
American game designer (1947-2009)
1,747
views
views
56
Ted Leonsis
American businessman
1,745
views
views
57
Will Shortz
American puzzle creator and editor
1,647
views
views
58
Feargus Urquhart
American video game designer
1,619
views
views
59
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
1,613
views
views
60
Warner Baxter
American actor (1889–1951)
1,603
views
views
61
Run Run Shaw
Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)
1,596
views
views
62
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
1,571
views
views
63
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
1,567
views
views
64
King Camp Gillette
American entrepreneur (1855–1932)
1,565
views
views
65
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
1,554
views
views
66
Charles Goodyear
American inventor (1800-1860)
1,458
views
views
67
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,447
views
views
68
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
1,421
views
views
69
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
1,420
views
views
70
Dan Hodges
British commentator
1,362
views
views
71
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
1,346
views
views
72
Arthur Jones
American inventor (1926–2007)
1,343
views
views
73
Brendan Greene
Irish video game developer
1,340
views
views
74
David Unaipon
Indigenous Australian inventor and writer (1872–1967)
1,322
views
views
75
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
1,313
views
views
76
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
1,296
views
views
77
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
1,288
views
views
78
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
1,281
views
views
79
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
1,247
views
views
80
Charles Frederick Page
American airship inventor
1,236
views
views
81
Hugo Schmeisser
German firearm designer (1884–1953)
1,232
views
views
82
Uziel Gal
Israeli firearm designer (1923-2002)
1,201
views
views
83
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
1,179
views
views
84
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
1,158
views
views
85
Orban
inventor, iron founder, and engineer (XVth c.)
1,140
views
views
86
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,136
views
views
87
David Marshall Williams
American firearms designer
1,133
views
views
88
Robert Augustus Chesebrough
American chemist (1837–1933)
1,105
views
views
89
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
1,093
views
views
90
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
1,081
views
views
91
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
1,050
views
views
92
Katherine Anna Kang
American film producer and video game designer
1,026
views
views
93
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
1,014
views
views
94
Bill Foster
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,006
views
views
95
Jordan Mechner
American video game designer
974
views
views
96
Klaus Teuber
German board game designer (1952–2023)
968
views
views
97
Brianna Wu
American video game developer
931
views
views
98
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
929
views
views
99
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
926
views
views
100
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
921
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