Trending Inventors in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed inventors this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
2,195,691
Total Views (this month)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
198,873
views
views
2
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
108,544
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
87,114
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
76,659
views
views
5
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
66,786
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
58,809
views
views
7
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
52,785
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
47,666
views
views
9
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
46,524
views
views
10
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
45,371
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views
11
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
43,818
views
views
12
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
43,720
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views
13
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
41,050
views
views
14
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
40,725
views
views
15
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
33,328
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
31,155
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views
17
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
28,984
views
views
18
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
28,815
views
views
19
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
28,682
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
27,838
views
views
21
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
27,070
views
views
22
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
26,755
views
views
23
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
26,724
views
views
24
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
26,513
views
views
25
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
24,840
views
views
26
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
24,683
views
views
27
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
24,058
views
views
28
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
23,422
views
views
29
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
21,862
views
views
30
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,194
views
views
31
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
21,109
views
views
32
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
20,156
views
views
33
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
19,972
views
views
34
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
18,544
views
views
35
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
18,493
views
views
36
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
17,711
views
views
37
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
17,395
views
views
38
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
17,035
views
views
39
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
16,960
views
views
40
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
16,925
views
views
41
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
16,772
views
views
42
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
16,758
views
views
43
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
16,522
views
views
44
Matthew Mercer
American actor
16,330
views
views
45
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
16,226
views
views
46
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
16,004
views
views
47
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
15,963
views
views
48
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
15,280
views
views
49
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
14,868
views
views
50
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
14,399
views
views
51
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
13,898
views
views
52
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
13,645
views
views
53
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
13,213
views
views
54
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
12,964
views
views
55
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
12,724
views
views
56
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
12,554
views
views
57
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
12,261
views
views
58
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
11,820
views
views
59
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
11,718
views
views
60
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
11,571
views
views
61
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
11,493
views
views
62
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
10,523
views
views
63
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
10,517
views
views
64
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
10,215
views
views
65
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
10,064
views
views
66
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
10,052
views
views
67
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
9,989
views
views
68
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
9,884
views
views
69
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
9,618
views
views
70
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
9,558
views
views
71
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
9,374
views
views
72
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
9,247
views
views
73
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,110
views
views
74
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
9,071
views
views
75
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
9,015
views
views
76
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
8,755
views
views
77
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
8,745
views
views
78
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
8,735
views
views
79
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
8,495
views
views
80
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
8,494
views
views
81
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
8,397
views
views
82
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
8,334
views
views
83
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
8,242
views
views
84
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
8,115
views
views
85
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
8,079
views
views
86
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
8,074
views
views
87
Ash Williams
fictional character from the Evil Dead series
8,069
views
views
88
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
7,824
views
views
89
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
7,787
views
views
90
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
7,735
views
views
91
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
7,340
views
views
92
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
7,319
views
views
93
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
7,185
views
views
94
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
7,109
views
views
95
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
7,032
views
views
96
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852–1943)
6,876
views
views
97
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
6,851
views
views
98
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
6,774
views
views
99
Jack LaLanne
American exercise instructor (1914–2011)
6,729
views
views
100
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
6,709
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