Trending Inventors in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
46,205
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
3,551
views
views
2
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955β2011)
1,772
views
views
3
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
1,552
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,468
views
views
5
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
1,402
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
1,101
views
views
7
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
947
views
views
8
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Japanese video game designer
939
views
views
9
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181β234)
925
views
views
10
Akane Himasora
Japanese video game developer, YouTuber, blogger, writer and political activist (1983β)
899
views
views
11
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451β1506)
855
views
views
12
KΕnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
852
views
views
13
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Japanese inventor
813
views
views
14
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
804
views
views
15
Crystal Noda
Japanese owarai tarento
788
views
views
16
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959β2015)
759
views
views
17
Hiroshi Agasa
fictional character from Detective Conan
759
views
views
18
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
711
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
706
views
views
20
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901β1966)
694
views
views
21
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
677
views
views
22
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
671
views
views
23
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
635
views
views
24
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
621
views
views
25
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
616
views
views
26
Rin Inumaru
manga artist and essayist (1958-2006)
611
views
views
27
Roh Moo-hyun
16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946β2009)
557
views
views
28
Hiraga Gennai
Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)
555
views
views
29
Mafia Kajita
Japanese writer, radio personality, actor, and voice actor
524
views
views
30
Yuji Horii
Japanese video game designer
518
views
views
31
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
489
views
views
32
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919β2013)
485
views
views
33
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867β1930)
468
views
views
34
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
446
views
views
35
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
428
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
424
views
views
37
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
406
views
views
38
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer
364
views
views
39
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
360
views
views
40
John Pemberton
American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831-1888)
342
views
views
41
ShΕgo Kinugasa
Japanese game scenario writer and novelist
341
views
views
42
Gunpei Yokoi
Japanese video game designer (1941β1997)
327
views
views
43
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
326
views
views
44
Koichi Nakamura
Japanese video game designer
322
views
views
45
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
321
views
views
46
Hiroko Konishi
Japanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcher
321
views
views
47
Keiko Erikawa
Japanese game designer
321
views
views
48
Akitoshi Kawazu
Japanese video game producer and designer
310
views
views
49
Kenji Eno
Japanese musician and video game designer (1970β2013)
308
views
views
50
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
304
views
views
51
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
303
views
views
52
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833β1896)
302
views
views
53
Tanaka Hisashige
Japanese engineer (1799β1881)
277
views
views
54
Yoshiki Okamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1961)
267
views
views
55
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
267
views
views
56
Ryukishi07
Japanese writer
267
views
views
57
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
265
views
views
58
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
263
views
views
59
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
249
views
views
60
Wario
fictional video game character from the Mario franchise
245
views
views
61
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
244
views
views
62
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
239
views
views
63
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
236
views
views
64
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
236
views
views
65
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
230
views
views
66
Tokuro Fujiwara
Japanese video game designer
227
views
views
67
Takahiro
Japanese novelist, manga, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter
223
views
views
68
Tomoya Asano
Japanese video game producer
220
views
views
69
Hideki Kamiya
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
216
views
views
70
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
214
views
views
71
Masayoshi Yokoyama
Japanese video game director
214
views
views
72
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
209
views
views
73
Bulma
fictional character from Dragon Ball
208
views
views
74
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
208
views
views
75
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
208
views
views
76
Fumiaki Maruto
Japanese novelist
206
views
views
77
Naoki Nakashima
204
views
views
78
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
203
views
views
79
Chiyomaru Shikura
Japanese lyricist, composer, writer, and game developer (1970-)
200
views
views
80
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
199
views
views
81
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
197
views
views
82
Kazumi Muraki
Japanese chemist
194
views
views
83
Kazumi Totaka
Japanese video game composer and voice actor (born 1967)
190
views
views
84
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843β1910)
188
views
views
85
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905β1976)
185
views
views
86
Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Japanese video game designer
181
views
views
87
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
181
views
views
88
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
179
views
views
89
Tetsuya Nomura
Japanese video game designer
178
views
views
90
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863β1947)
172
views
views
91
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
172
views
views
92
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
172
views
views
93
Romeo Tanaka
Japanese free artist and scenario writer for bishΕjo games and adult games, and light novelist
169
views
views
94
Yuji Naka
Japanese video game designer and programmer
168
views
views
95
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
166
views
views
96
Akira Sakuma
Japanese video game designer
166
views
views
97
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
164
views
views
98
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
151
views
views
99
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
148
views
views
100
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
140
views
views
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