Trending Inventors in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed inventors this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
28,816
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
2,523
views
views
2
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955β2011)
1,232
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
981
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
906
views
views
5
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Japanese video game designer
775
views
views
6
Akane Himasora
Japanese video game developer, YouTuber, blogger, writer and political activist (1983β)
765
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
700
views
views
8
Crystal Noda
Japanese owarai tarento
579
views
views
9
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181β234)
560
views
views
10
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451β1506)
560
views
views
11
KΕnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
556
views
views
12
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
553
views
views
13
Rin Inumaru
manga artist and essayist (1958-2006)
521
views
views
14
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
495
views
views
15
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
488
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
471
views
views
17
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959β2015)
459
views
views
18
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901β1966)
447
views
views
19
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
446
views
views
20
Roh Moo-hyun
16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946β2009)
441
views
views
21
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
429
views
views
22
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
417
views
views
23
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
394
views
views
24
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
365
views
views
25
Yuji Horii
Japanese video game designer
341
views
views
26
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
330
views
views
27
Mafia Kajita
Japanese writer, radio personality, actor, and voice actor
315
views
views
28
Hiraga Gennai
Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)
300
views
views
29
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919β2013)
298
views
views
30
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Japanese inventor
292
views
views
31
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
284
views
views
32
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867β1930)
284
views
views
33
Akitoshi Kawazu
Japanese video game producer and designer
278
views
views
34
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
260
views
views
35
Hiroshi Agasa
fictional character from Detective Conan
259
views
views
36
Hiroko Konishi
Japanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcher
248
views
views
37
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
243
views
views
38
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
233
views
views
39
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer
232
views
views
40
Kenji Eno
Japanese musician and video game designer (1970β2013)
231
views
views
41
Keiko Erikawa
Japanese game designer
231
views
views
42
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
227
views
views
43
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
212
views
views
44
Tomoya Asano
Japanese video game producer
212
views
views
45
Gunpei Yokoi
Japanese video game designer (1941β1997)
202
views
views
46
Koichi Nakamura
Japanese video game designer
202
views
views
47
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
201
views
views
48
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
187
views
views
49
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
183
views
views
50
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
183
views
views
51
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833β1896)
180
views
views
52
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
179
views
views
53
Tanaka Hisashige
Japanese engineer (1799β1881)
177
views
views
54
Masayoshi Yokoyama
Japanese video game director
172
views
views
55
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
171
views
views
56
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
167
views
views
57
Yoshiki Okamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1961)
166
views
views
58
ShΕgo Kinugasa
Japanese game scenario writer and novelist
155
views
views
59
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
149
views
views
60
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
148
views
views
61
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
145
views
views
62
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
143
views
views
63
Ryukishi07
Japanese writer
143
views
views
64
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
142
views
views
65
Fumiaki Maruto
Japanese novelist
139
views
views
66
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
134
views
views
67
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
134
views
views
68
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
131
views
views
69
Chiyomaru Shikura
Japanese lyricist, composer, writer, and game developer (1970-)
131
views
views
70
Naoki Nakashima
129
views
views
71
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
128
views
views
72
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
126
views
views
73
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843β1910)
126
views
views
74
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
126
views
views
75
Hideki Kamiya
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
125
views
views
76
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
122
views
views
77
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
121
views
views
78
Shinji Hashimoto
Japanese video game producer
121
views
views
79
Tetsuya Nomura
Japanese video game designer
119
views
views
80
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
118
views
views
81
Romeo Tanaka
Japanese free artist and scenario writer for bishΕjo games and adult games, and light novelist
117
views
views
82
Yuji Naka
Japanese video game designer and programmer
116
views
views
83
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
112
views
views
84
Takahiro
Japanese novelist, manga, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter
111
views
views
85
Bulma
fictional character from Dragon Ball
110
views
views
86
Wario
fictional video game character from the Mario franchise
109
views
views
87
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905β1976)
109
views
views
88
Takayuki Ohira
Japanese engineer
107
views
views
89
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
105
views
views
90
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
101
views
views
91
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
100
views
views
92
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
98
views
views
93
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
97
views
views
94
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
93
views
views
95
Akira Sakuma
Japanese video game designer
92
views
views
96
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
90
views
views
97
Colin Chapman
English design engineer (1928β1982)
89
views
views
98
YΕichi Erikawa
Japanese video game director and businessman
88
views
views
99
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
88
views
views
100
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863β1947)
86
views
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