Trending Inventors in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 99 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Spider-Man. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Japanese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Japan. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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Ranked
720,303
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
36,329
views
views
2
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
30,849
views
views
3
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
30,731
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,022
views
views
5
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
23,083
views
views
6
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
22,665
views
views
7
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
18,336
views
views
8
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
17,524
views
views
9
Momofuku Ando
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
16,640
views
views
10
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
16,055
views
views
11
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
15,941
views
views
12
Zhuge Liang
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
13,769
views
views
13
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
12,843
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
12,350
views
views
15
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
11,959
views
views
16
Crystal Noda
Japanese owarai tarento
11,569
views
views
17
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
10,968
views
views
18
Yuji Horii
Japanese video game designer
10,756
views
views
19
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
10,532
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
10,404
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
9,979
views
views
22
Sakuma Shōzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
9,688
views
views
23
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
9,597
views
views
24
Mafia Kajita
Japanese writer, radio personality, actor, and voice actor
9,511
views
views
25
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,357
views
views
26
Hiraga Gennai
Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)
8,786
views
views
27
Rin Inumaru
manga artist and essayist (1958-2006)
7,980
views
views
28
Akihiro Hino
President and CEO of Japanese video game developer Level-5
7,747
views
views
29
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Japanese inventor
7,656
views
views
30
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Japanese video game designer
7,357
views
views
31
Akane Himasora
Japanese video game developer, YouTuber, blogger, writer and political activist (1983–)
7,333
views
views
32
Koichi Nakamura
Japanese video game designer
7,303
views
views
33
Eiji Aonuma
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
7,056
views
views
34
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer
6,788
views
views
35
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,282
views
views
36
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
6,173
views
views
37
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
6,066
views
views
38
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
6,027
views
views
39
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
5,914
views
views
40
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,913
views
views
41
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
5,635
views
views
42
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Japanese video game designer (born 1968)
5,580
views
views
43
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
5,384
views
views
44
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,280
views
views
45
Yoko Taro
video game director, writer and designer
5,123
views
views
46
Gunpei Yokoi
Japanese video game designer (1941–1997)
5,077
views
views
47
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
5,013
views
views
48
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,825
views
views
49
Ryukishi07
Japanese writer
4,793
views
views
50
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
4,752
views
views
51
Roh Moo-hyun
16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946–2009)
4,601
views
views
52
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
4,312
views
views
53
Akitoshi Kawazu
Japanese video game producer and designer
4,304
views
views
54
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
4,029
views
views
55
Hiroko Konishi
Japanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcher
4,025
views
views
56
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,013
views
views
57
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
3,879
views
views
58
Akira Sakuma
Japanese video game designer
3,842
views
views
59
Ikumi Nakamura
video game developer
3,755
views
views
60
Kenji Eno
Japanese musician and video game designer (1970–2013)
3,736
views
views
61
Tanaka Hisashige
Japanese engineer (1799–1881)
3,702
views
views
62
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
3,669
views
views
63
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,667
views
views
64
Takahiro
Japanese novelist, manga, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter
3,634
views
views
65
Keiko Erikawa
Japanese game designer
3,565
views
views
66
Hiroshi Agasa
fictional character from Case Closed
3,515
views
views
67
Tetsuya Nomura
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
3,407
views
views
68
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
3,407
views
views
69
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
3,401
views
views
70
Chiyomaru Shikura
Japanese lyricist, composer, writer, and game developer (1970-)
3,291
views
views
71
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,149
views
views
72
Bulma
fictional character from Dragon Ball
3,135
views
views
73
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
3,113
views
views
74
Hideki Kamiya
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
3,112
views
views
75
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
2,977
views
views
76
Yoshiki Okamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1961)
2,971
views
views
77
Les Paul
American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)
2,949
views
views
78
Yuji Naka
Japanese video game designer and programmer
2,915
views
views
79
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
2,912
views
views
80
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
2,900
views
views
81
Masahiro Yamazaki
2,869
views
views
82
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
2,811
views
views
83
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
2,770
views
views
84
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,737
views
views
85
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,714
views
views
86
Naoki Nakashima
2,698
views
views
87
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,676
views
views
88
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
2,633
views
views
89
Kazutaka Kodaka
Japanese video game designer and writer
2,600
views
views
90
Shōgo Kinugasa
Japanese game scenario writer and novelist
2,557
views
views
91
Fumiaki Maruto
Japanese novelist
2,549
views
views
92
Ryozo Tsujimoto
Japanese video game executive
2,528
views
views
93
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
2,526
views
views
94
Kazushige Nojima
Japanese video game writer
2,510
views
views
95
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,431
views
views
96
Fumito Ueda
Japanese video game designer
2,382
views
views
97
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
2,379
views
views
98
Takiya Iijima
Japanese novelist
2,376
views
views
99
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
2,370
views
views