Trending Inventors — the 7 days to 28 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 28 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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2,504,098
Total Views (the 7 days to 28 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
128,192
views
views
2
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
117,371
views
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.
93,029
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
89,041
views
views
5
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
81,725
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
80,850
views
views
7
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
79,807
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
62,665
views
views
9
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
53,237
views
views
10
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
50,470
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
49,791
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)
48,105
views
views
14
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
45,220
views
views
15
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
41,086
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
40,833
views
views
17
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
39,961
views
views
18
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
39,383
views
views
19
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
38,997
views
views
20
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
37,222
views
views
21
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
34,824
views
views
22
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
33,880
views
views
23
Mike Pondsmith
American game designer
31,766
views
views
24
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
31,364
views
views
25
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
30,963
views
views
26
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
30,076
views
views
27
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
29,430
views
views
28
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
27,039
views
views
29
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
25,914
views
views
30
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
23,728
views
views
31
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
23,581
views
views
32
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
23,404
views
views
33
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
23,227
views
views
34
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
22,498
views
views
35
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
22,471
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
21,842
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
19,669
views
views
38
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
19,569
views
views
39
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
18,986
views
views
40
Greg Zeschuk
Canadian businessman
18,767
views
views
41
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
18,514
views
views
42
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
18,481
views
views
43
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
18,297
views
views
44
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
17,887
views
views
45
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
17,627
views
views
46
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
17,541
views
views
47
Casey Hudson
Canadian video game designer
17,428
views
views
48
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
17,109
views
views
49
Richard Fuisz
American physician
15,901
views
views
50
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
15,551
views
views
51
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
15,396
views
views
52
Matthew Mercer
American actor
14,499
views
views
53
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
14,414
views
views
54
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
14,212
views
views
55
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
14,105
views
views
56
Vince Zampella
American video game designer (1970–2025)
14,014
views
views
57
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
14,008
views
views
58
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
13,757
views
views
59
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,624
views
views
60
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
13,576
views
views
61
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
13,304
views
views
62
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
13,210
views
views
63
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
13,197
views
views
64
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
13,139
views
views
65
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
12,589
views
views
66
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
12,536
views
views
67
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,477
views
views
68
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
12,455
views
views
69
Tom Swift
fictional literary character and book series
12,111
views
views
70
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
11,832
views
views
71
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
11,680
views
views
72
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
11,583
views
views
73
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
11,119
views
views
74
Chris Avellone
American video game designer
10,803
views
views
75
Tim Sweeney
American game developer (born 1970)
10,718
views
views
76
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
10,586
views
views
77
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
10,550
views
views
78
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
10,405
views
views
79
Nellie Bly
American journalist
10,362
views
views
80
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
10,219
views
views
81
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
10,096
views
views
82
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
9,970
views
views
83
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
9,851
views
views
84
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
9,371
views
views
85
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
9,311
views
views
86
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
9,299
views
views
87
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
8,889
views
views
88
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
8,887
views
views
89
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
8,839
views
views
90
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
8,700
views
views
91
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
8,530
views
views
92
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
8,420
views
views
93
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
8,345
views
views
94
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
8,249
views
views
95
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
8,216
views
views
96
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
8,181
views
views
97
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
8,045
views
views
98
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
7,769
views
views
99
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
7,724
views
views
100
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
7,597
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