Trending Inventors — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Steve Jobs. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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9,750,763
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
584,332
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2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
489,763
views
views
3
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
342,578
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
5
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
311,371
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
310,089
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
8
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
239,385
views
views
9
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
231,198
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
226,760
views
views
11
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
206,927
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
205,982
views
views
13
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
199,748
views
views
14
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
15
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
164,798
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
158,853
views
views
17
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
145,546
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
142,947
views
views
19
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
141,743
views
views
20
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
134,305
views
views
21
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
120,159
views
views
22
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
118,269
views
views
23
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
110,323
views
views
24
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
109,660
views
views
25
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
108,049
views
views
26
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
107,826
views
views
27
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
96,220
views
views
28
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
95,334
views
views
29
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
30
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
91,579
views
views
31
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
89,179
views
views
32
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
87,350
views
views
33
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
85,943
views
views
34
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
85,498
views
views
35
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
84,842
views
views
36
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
84,711
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
83,955
views
views
38
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
83,629
views
views
39
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
83,394
views
views
40
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
80,524
views
views
41
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
76,216
views
views
42
Matthew Mercer
American actor
69,598
views
views
43
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
67,160
views
views
44
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
66,715
views
views
45
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
65,716
views
views
46
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
65,557
views
views
47
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
64,506
views
views
48
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
64,466
views
views
49
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
63,006
views
views
50
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
62,194
views
views
51
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
61,393
views
views
52
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
61,068
views
views
53
Frauke Petry
German politician
60,179
views
views
54
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
59,762
views
views
55
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
59,474
views
views
56
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
56,889
views
views
57
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
52,890
views
views
58
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
52,637
views
views
59
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
52,450
views
views
60
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
50,970
views
views
61
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
49,976
views
views
62
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
49,736
views
views
63
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
49,147
views
views
64
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
49,135
views
views
65
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
48,917
views
views
66
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
47,514
views
views
67
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
47,095
views
views
68
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
43,661
views
views
69
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
43,359
views
views
70
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
42,830
views
views
71
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
42,813
views
views
72
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
42,446
views
views
73
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
42,213
views
views
74
James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
41,821
views
views
75
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
40,429
views
views
76
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
40,286
views
views
77
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
39,805
views
views
78
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
39,576
views
views
79
Bolivar Trask
fictional character in Marvel Comics
39,373
views
views
80
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
39,356
views
views
81
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
39,273
views
views
82
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
39,235
views
views
83
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
38,843
views
views
84
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
38,612
views
views
85
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
38,410
views
views
86
Artemy Lebedev
Russian designer
38,384
views
views
87
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
37,789
views
views
88
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
37,727
views
views
89
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
37,299
views
views
90
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
37,235
views
views
91
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
37,120
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
36,365
views
views
93
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
34,983
views
views
94
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
33,870
views
views
95
Bob Irwin
Australian naturalist and former zookeeper (born 1939)
33,651
views
views
96
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
33,628
views
views
97
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
32,864
views
views
98
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
32,473
views
views
99
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
32,376
views
views
100
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
32,118
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