Trending Engineers in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed engineers this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sonam Wangchuk.
100
Ranked
5,942,578
Total Views (this year)
1
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
329,181
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
307,267
views
views
3
George Washington
Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
140,742
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
140,641
views
views
5
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
138,263
views
views
6
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
131,060
views
views
7
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
130,789
views
views
8
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
130,023
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
128,827
views
views
10
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
110,932
views
views
11
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1955)
110,491
views
views
12
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
98,071
views
views
13
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
94,794
views
views
14
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
92,597
views
views
15
Osama bin Laden
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
91,790
views
views
16
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian scientist and statesman (1931–2015)
90,181
views
views
17
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
89,381
views
views
18
Alberto Fujimori
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
81,624
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
81,334
views
views
20
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
77,357
views
views
21
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
75,043
views
views
22
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
72,834
views
views
23
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
71,701
views
views
24
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
71,243
views
views
25
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
70,214
views
views
26
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
69,216
views
views
27
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
68,973
views
views
28
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
67,122
views
views
29
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
65,715
views
views
30
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
65,371
views
views
31
Karlie Kloss
American fashion model
63,797
views
views
32
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
60,207
views
views
33
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
59,264
views
views
34
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
55,116
views
views
35
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
54,114
views
views
36
Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
52,944
views
views
37
Dr. Dre
American record producer and rapper (born 1965)
51,729
views
views
38
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
50,655
views
views
39
Thomas Massie
American politician
50,000
views
views
40
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
49,629
views
views
41
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
49,251
views
views
42
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
47,077
views
views
43
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
46,775
views
views
44
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
45,993
views
views
45
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
45,806
views
views
46
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
45,577
views
views
47
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
45,045
views
views
48
Tim Cook
American business executive, Apple CEO
44,907
views
views
49
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
44,879
views
views
50
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
44,231
views
views
51
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
44,047
views
views
52
Ken Miles
British racing driver (1918–1966)
42,669
views
views
53
Jesse James
American entrepreneur and television personality
42,148
views
views
54
John Ternus
Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering
41,656
views
views
55
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
41,037
views
views
56
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
40,091
views
views
57
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
39,534
views
views
58
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
39,116
views
views
59
Errol Musk
South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
38,706
views
views
60
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
38,019
views
views
61
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
37,843
views
views
62
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
37,096
views
views
63
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
37,073
views
views
64
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
36,788
views
views
65
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
36,124
views
views
66
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
36,078
views
views
67
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
35,940
views
views
68
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
35,853
views
views
69
Satya Nadella
Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
35,764
views
views
70
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
35,300
views
views
71
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
35,191
views
views
72
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
34,534
views
views
73
Ratan Tata
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024)
34,140
views
views
74
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
33,931
views
views
75
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
32,709
views
views
76
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
31,645
views
views
77
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
31,166
views
views
78
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
30,630
views
views
79
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,568
views
views
80
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
30,473
views
views
81
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
30,430
views
views
82
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
29,838
views
views
83
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
29,800
views
views
84
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
29,345
views
views
85
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
29,104
views
views
86
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
28,830
views
views
87
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
28,532
views
views
88
Manuel Noriega
Panamanian head of state (1934-2017)
28,278
views
views
89
Matthew Mercer
American actor
27,654
views
views
90
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
27,389
views
views
91
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
27,371
views
views
92
Susana Higuchi
Peruvian politician (1950–2021)
26,696
views
views
93
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,860
views
views
94
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
25,827
views
views
95
Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
25,705
views
views
96
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
25,530
views
views
97
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
25,414
views
views
98
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
25,253
views
views
99
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
25,185
views
views
100
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
24,895
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