Trending Architects in USA — September 2026

1

John Stewart

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 3 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

273,660
views

2

Larry Silverstein

American businessman

📚 3 citations

210,536
views

3

Thomas Jefferson

Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

📚 56 citations 📰 58 stories · 18 sources

183,150
views

4

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

165,189
views

5

Martha Stewart

American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)

📚 30 citations 📰 14 stories · 5 sources

155,105
views

6

Michelangelo

Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)

📚 50 citations

99,537
views

7

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

📚 50 citations

98,547
views

8

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

American actor

📚 7 citations

98,134
views

9

Boris Yeltsin

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)

📚 39 citations 📰 20 stories · 7 sources

83,845
views

10

Minoru Yamasaki

American architect (1912–1986)

📚 25 citations

81,442
views

11

Bianca Censori

Australian architect and model (born 1995)

📚 4 citations

73,217
views

12

Albert Speer

German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)

📚 38 citations

67,661
views

13

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect (1867-1959)

📚 67 citations 📰 12 stories · 6 sources

64,911
views

14

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

ancient Roman statesman and general

📚 18 citations

62,430
views

15

Antoni Gaudí

Catalan architect (1852–1926)

📚 49 citations

54,623
views

16

Lee Radziwill

American socialite (1933–2019)

📚 14 citations

53,131
views

17

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary (born 1944)

📚 10 citations

49,853
views

18

Yolanda Hadid

American television personality and former model

📚 5 citations

47,360
views

19

Raphael

Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)

📚 51 citations

41,186
views

20

Jonathan Scott

Canadian television personality

39,541
views

21

Joan Fontaine

British actress (1917–2013)

📚 28 citations

38,145
views

22

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)

📚 65 citations

37,425
views

23

William Morris

textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)

📚 60 citations

36,551
views

24

Leigh Anne Tuohy

American interior designer

📚 1 citation

35,611
views

25

Juan Pablo Escobar Henao

Peace Ambassador, Colombian architect, author, and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar

📚 6 citations

35,217
views

26

Frank De Martini

American architect known for heroic acts in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

34,324
views

27

David Bromstad

American designer and television personality

34,276
views

28

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928–2016)

📚 54 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

33,856
views

29

Virgil Abloh

American fashion designer (1980-2021)

📚 21 citations

33,304
views

30

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)

📚 25 citations

32,516
views

31

Robert Moses

American urban planner (1888–1981)

📚 22 citations

32,389
views

32

Jan van Eyck

Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)

📚 40 citations

31,148
views

33

Sussanne Khan

Indian interior fashion designer

📚 1 citation

30,715
views

34

Daedalus

son of Metion in Greek mythology

📚 10 citations

30,642
views

35

Rudolf Steiner

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

📚 48 citations

29,642
views

36

Joanna Gaines

interior designer

29,513
views

37

John Ruskin

English writer and art critic (1819–1900)

📚 45 citations

29,278
views

38

H. R. Giger

Swiss artist (1940–2014)

📚 33 citations

28,498
views

39

Christopher Ciccone

American artist (1960–2024)

📚 10 citations

28,236
views

40

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)

📚 116 citations

26,893
views

41

Arnold Palmer

American golfer (1929–2016)

📚 17 citations 📰 22 stories · 5 sources

26,654
views

42

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

📚 64 citations

26,617
views

43

Anish Kapoor

British-Indian artist (born 1954)

📚 61 citations

25,587
views

44

Jack Nicklaus

American golfer (born 1940)

📚 15 citations

25,061
views

45

Catherine FitzGerald

Irish landscape designer and gardener (born 1971)

📚 2 citations

24,961
views

46

John Singer Sargent

American painter (1856–1925)

📚 40 citations

24,780
views

47

Egon Schiele

Austrian painter (1890-1918)

📚 48 citations

23,247
views

48

Amanda Burden

American urban planner

23,075
views

49

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)

📚 33 citations

22,765
views

50

Robert Hooke

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

📚 48 citations

21,790
views

51

Alphonse Mucha

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)

📚 59 citations

21,036
views

52

Neri Oxman

Israeli-American designer and academic (born 1976)

📚 15 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

20,761
views

53

Frank Gehry

Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)

📚 65 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

20,450
views

54

Zdzisław Beksiński

Polish artist (1929-2005)

📚 20 citations

20,125
views

55

Olena Zelenska

First Lady of Ukraine since 2019

📚 5 citations

19,978
views

56

Lyndall Hobbs

Film director, producer and interior designer

📚 1 citation

19,893
views

57

Buckminster Fuller

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)

📚 71 citations

19,510
views

58

Imhotep

Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.

📚 14 citations

19,333
views

59

Mary Richardson Kennedy

American interior designer, architect, and philanthropist

18,975
views

60

Gustave Eiffel

French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)

📚 45 citations

18,117
views

61

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

engineer and politician (1972–2026)

📚 7 citations

17,701
views

62

John Inman

British actor (1935–2007)

📚 23 citations

17,655
views

63

El Greco

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)

📚 46 citations

17,322
views

64

Neil Breen

American filmmaker

📚 2 citations

17,077
views

65

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

📚 46 citations

16,994
views

66

Ai Weiwei

Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)

📚 44 citations

16,273
views

67

Anouska Hempel

New Zealand hotelier, designer and former actress

📚 6 citations

16,266
views

68

Farah Pahlavi

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

📚 22 citations

16,106
views

69

Moshe Safdie

Israeli-Canadian architect (born 1938)

📚 34 citations

15,978
views

70

John Martin

English painter, engraver and illustrator (1789–1854)

📚 43 citations 📰 7 stories · 3 sources

15,653
views

71

I. M. Pei

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

📚 50 citations

15,549
views

72

Princess Rajwa Al Hussein

Saudi royal

15,546
views

73

Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)

📚 32 citations

15,233
views

74

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)

📚 38 citations

15,211
views

75

Queen Noor of Jordan

Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist

📚 11 citations

15,131
views

76

Amenhotep III

ninth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt

📚 7 citations

14,856
views

77

Bess of Hardwick

notable figure of 16th century Elizabethan English society (c.1521-1608)

📚 12 citations

14,674
views

78

Eric Villency

American chief executive

14,628
views

79

Giotto

Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)

📚 42 citations

14,416
views

80

Camille O'Sullivan

Irish musician

📚 6 citations

14,371
views

81

Norman Foster

British architect (born 1935)

📚 45 citations

14,233
views

82

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian architect, sculptor and engineer

📚 39 citations

13,981
views

83

Phyllis Gates

American secretary and interior decorator, wife of Rock Hudson (1925–2006)

📚 5 citations

13,924
views

84

Hilary Labow

American actress

📚 2 citations

13,799
views

85

Frederick Law Olmsted

American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)

📚 36 citations

13,663
views

86

Frances Tophill

British horticulturalist and television presenter

13,545
views

87

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German architect (1886–1969)

📚 63 citations

13,251
views

88

Catherine Hardwicke

American film director, screenwriter and architect

📚 9 citations

13,220
views

89

Jeff Lewis

real estate speculator

13,024
views

90

Eero Saarinen

American architect (1910–1961)

📚 50 citations

12,854
views

91

Ernő Rubik

Hungarian inventor (born 1944)

📚 13 citations

12,772
views

92

Luigi Pantisano

German politician (The Left)

12,742
views

93

Stanford White

American architect (1853-1906)

📚 23 citations

12,449
views

94

Kristin Brinker

German architect and politician

📚 2 citations

12,229
views

95

Christopher Wren

English architect (1632–1723)

📚 41 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

12,199
views

96

Faye Resnick

American designer

📚 2 citations

11,951
views

97

Vitruvius

Roman architect and engineer

📚 27 citations

11,703
views

98

Isamu Noguchi

Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)

📚 47 citations

11,675
views

99

Adrian Smith

American architect (born 1944)

📚 7 citations 📰 17 stories · 5 sources

11,549
views

100

India Hicks

British writer, interior designer and former fashion model

📚 6 citations

11,238
views