Trending Inventors in Japan — September 2026
The 99 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Spider-Man. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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672,432
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
35,382
views
views
2
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
30,178
views
views
3
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
28,959
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
26,554
views
views
5
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
22,462
views
views
6
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
21,263
views
views
7
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
16,784
views
views
8
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
16,423
views
views
9
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
15,929
views
views
10
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
15,378
views
views
11
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
15,089
views
views
12
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
12,844
views
views
13
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
12,208
views
views
14
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
11,838
views
views
15
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
11,644
views
views
16
Crystal Noda
Japanese owarai tarento
10,781
views
views
17
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
10,274
views
views
18
Yuji Horii
Japanese video game designer
10,238
views
views
19
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
9,773
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,600
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
9,124
views
views
22
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,118
views
views
23
Mafia Kajita
Japanese writer, radio personality, actor, and voice actor
8,987
views
views
24
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
8,981
views
views
25
Hiraga Gennai
Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)
8,231
views
views
26
Akihiro Hino
President and CEO of Japanese video game developer Level-5
7,616
views
views
27
Rin Inumaru
manga artist and essayist (1958-2006)
7,369
views
views
28
Koichi Nakamura
Japanese video game designer
6,981
views
views
29
Eiji Aonuma
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
6,942
views
views
30
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Japanese inventor
6,843
views
views
31
Akane Himasora
Japanese video game developer, YouTuber, blogger, writer and political activist (1983–)
6,434
views
views
32
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer
6,424
views
views
33
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Japanese video game designer
6,418
views
views
34
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
5,871
views
views
35
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
5,858
views
views
36
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
5,723
views
views
37
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
5,660
views
views
38
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Japanese video game designer (born 1968)
5,494
views
views
39
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,485
views
views
40
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
5,446
views
views
41
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
5,436
views
views
42
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,153
views
views
43
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
5,063
views
views
44
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
4,893
views
views
45
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
4,777
views
views
46
Gunpei Yokoi
Japanese video game designer (1941–1997)
4,750
views
views
47
Ryukishi07
Japanese writer
4,526
views
views
48
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,499
views
views
49
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
4,392
views
views
50
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
4,049
views
views
51
Roh Moo-hyun
16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946–2009)
4,044
views
views
52
Akitoshi Kawazu
Japanese video game producer and designer
3,994
views
views
53
Ikumi Nakamura
video game developer
3,748
views
views
54
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
3,746
views
views
55
Hiroko Konishi
Japanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcher
3,704
views
views
56
Akira Sakuma
Japanese video game designer
3,676
views
views
57
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
3,635
views
views
58
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
3,544
views
views
59
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,470
views
views
60
Kenji Eno
Japanese musician and video game designer (1970–2013)
3,428
views
views
61
Tanaka Hisashige
Japanese engineer (1799–1881)
3,425
views
views
62
Takahiro
Japanese novelist, manga, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter
3,411
views
views
63
Keiko Erikawa
Japanese game designer
3,244
views
views
64
Tetsuya Nomura
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
3,229
views
views
65
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
3,223
views
views
66
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
3,222
views
views
67
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,108
views
views
68
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
3,098
views
views
69
Chiyomaru Shikura
Japanese lyricist, composer, writer, and game developer (1970-)
3,091
views
views
70
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
2,941
views
views
71
Bulma
fictional character from Dragon Ball
2,927
views
views
72
Hideki Kamiya
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
2,896
views
views
73
Les Paul
American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)
2,840
views
views
74
Masahiro Yamazaki
2,804
views
views
75
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
2,769
views
views
76
Hiroshi Agasa
fictional character from Case Closed
2,756
views
views
77
Yuji Naka
Japanese video game designer and programmer
2,747
views
views
78
Yoshiki Okamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1961)
2,704
views
views
79
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
2,691
views
views
80
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
2,680
views
views
81
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
2,589
views
views
82
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,570
views
views
83
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
2,508
views
views
84
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,500
views
views
85
Kazutaka Kodaka
Japanese video game designer and writer
2,500
views
views
86
Naoki Nakashima
2,494
views
views
87
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,488
views
views
88
Ryozo Tsujimoto
Japanese video game executive
2,435
views
views
89
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
2,423
views
views
90
Kazushige Nojima
Japanese video game writer
2,404
views
views
91
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
2,347
views
views
92
Fumiaki Maruto
Japanese novelist
2,343
views
views
93
Takiya Iijima
Japanese novelist
2,312
views
views
94
Hidemaro Fujibayashi
Japanese video game designer
2,297
views
views
95
Fumito Ueda
Japanese video game designer
2,287
views
views
96
Shigeru Ohmori
Japanese video game producer
2,275
views
views
97
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
2,249
views
views
98
Looseboy
2,249
views
views
99
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,223
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