Trending Inventors — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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2,498,336
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
131,348
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2
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
121,594
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views
3
Manuel Alexander Otto
A German computer game developer. He developed the Flash game "Stick Run", which was released on Facebook in C.E.2010.
90,735
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
90,308
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views
5
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
83,878
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views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
81,741
views
views
7
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
73,935
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
62,819
views
views
9
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
53,286
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
50,069
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
49,030
views
views
12
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
49,010
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
48,343
views
views
14
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
43,572
views
views
15
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
41,828
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
41,020
views
views
17
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
40,671
views
views
18
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
40,281
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
40,040
views
views
20
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
36,888
views
views
21
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
33,186
views
views
22
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
32,760
views
views
23
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
32,084
views
views
24
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
30,066
views
views
25
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
29,161
views
views
26
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
28,416
views
views
27
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
27,839
views
views
28
Mike Pondsmith
American game designer
26,374
views
views
29
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
26,254
views
views
30
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
24,454
views
views
31
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
23,868
views
views
32
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
23,830
views
views
33
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
23,670
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
22,827
views
views
35
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
22,673
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
20,547
views
views
37
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
20,344
views
views
38
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
19,958
views
views
39
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
19,088
views
views
40
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
18,847
views
views
41
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
18,623
views
views
42
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
18,528
views
views
43
Greg Zeschuk
Canadian businessman
18,214
views
views
44
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
17,797
views
views
45
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
17,777
views
views
46
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
17,773
views
views
47
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
17,050
views
views
48
Casey Hudson
Canadian video game designer
16,633
views
views
49
Richard Fuisz
American physician
15,853
views
views
50
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
15,427
views
views
51
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
15,235
views
views
52
Matthew Mercer
American actor
14,853
views
views
53
Vince Zampella
American video game designer (1970–2025)
14,758
views
views
54
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
14,487
views
views
55
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
14,312
views
views
56
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,775
views
views
57
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
13,659
views
views
58
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
13,362
views
views
59
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
13,245
views
views
60
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
13,215
views
views
61
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
13,063
views
views
62
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
12,933
views
views
63
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
12,604
views
views
64
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
12,539
views
views
65
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
12,511
views
views
66
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
12,501
views
views
67
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,331
views
views
68
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
12,166
views
views
69
Tom Swift
fictional literary character and book series
11,908
views
views
70
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
11,698
views
views
71
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
11,644
views
views
72
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
11,614
views
views
73
Nellie Bly
American journalist
11,513
views
views
74
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
11,201
views
views
75
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
11,172
views
views
76
Chris Avellone
American video game designer
10,389
views
views
77
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
10,305
views
views
78
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
10,298
views
views
79
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
10,126
views
views
80
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
10,091
views
views
81
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
10,050
views
views
82
Tim Sweeney
American game developer (born 1970)
10,044
views
views
83
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
9,783
views
views
84
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
9,655
views
views
85
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
9,162
views
views
86
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
9,140
views
views
87
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,085
views
views
88
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
8,896
views
views
89
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
8,710
views
views
90
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
8,609
views
views
91
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
8,589
views
views
92
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
8,530
views
views
93
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
8,360
views
views
94
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
8,321
views
views
95
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
8,300
views
views
96
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
8,236
views
views
97
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
7,943
views
views
98
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
7,750
views
views
99
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
7,722
views
views
100
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
7,626
views
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