Trending Inventors in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Steve Jobs. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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6,572,971
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
422,736
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
290,897
views
views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
191,481
views
views
4
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
189,792
views
views
5
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
183,150
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
178,019
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
168,737
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
165,189
views
views
9
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
164,617
views
views
10
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
161,372
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
151,962
views
views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
149,127
views
views
13
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
148,709
views
views
14
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
143,133
views
views
15
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
110,482
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
103,256
views
views
17
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
102,608
views
views
18
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
97,167
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
96,617
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
87,144
views
views
21
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
82,376
views
views
22
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
81,935
views
views
23
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
79,701
views
views
24
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
78,954
views
views
25
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
78,341
views
views
26
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
76,288
views
views
27
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
76,152
views
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
75,903
views
views
29
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
71,488
views
views
30
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
69,968
views
views
31
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
66,237
views
views
32
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
64,095
views
views
33
Matthew Mercer
American actor
64,032
views
views
34
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
61,587
views
views
35
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
56,475
views
views
36
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
55,578
views
views
37
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
54,979
views
views
38
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
54,828
views
views
39
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
53,097
views
views
40
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
51,881
views
views
41
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
49,833
views
views
42
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
49,077
views
views
43
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
47,697
views
views
44
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
44,637
views
views
45
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
43,859
views
views
46
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
43,355
views
views
47
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
43,318
views
views
48
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
42,092
views
views
49
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
42,060
views
views
50
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
41,871
views
views
51
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
39,359
views
views
52
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
38,282
views
views
53
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
37,975
views
views
54
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
37,521
views
views
55
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
37,077
views
views
56
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
36,910
views
views
57
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
36,874
views
views
58
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
36,590
views
views
59
James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
36,052
views
views
60
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
34,441
views
views
61
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
34,260
views
views
62
Bob Irwin
Australian naturalist and former zookeeper (born 1939)
33,651
views
views
63
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
32,472
views
views
64
Bolivar Trask
fictional character in Marvel Comics
32,455
views
views
65
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
31,672
views
views
66
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
31,593
views
views
67
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
31,560
views
views
68
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
30,919
views
views
69
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
30,858
views
views
70
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
29,314
views
views
71
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
29,183
views
views
72
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
29,040
views
views
73
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
28,803
views
views
74
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
28,692
views
views
75
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
28,552
views
views
76
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
28,460
views
views
77
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
28,213
views
views
78
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
28,141
views
views
79
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
27,816
views
views
80
Steve Urkel
fictional character on the sitcom Family Matters
27,773
views
views
81
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
27,698
views
views
82
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
27,484
views
views
83
Peter Jones
British businessman
26,475
views
views
84
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
26,346
views
views
85
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
26,122
views
views
86
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
26,064
views
views
87
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
25,631
views
views
88
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
24,882
views
views
89
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
24,706
views
views
90
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
23,711
views
views
91
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
23,699
views
views
92
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
23,660
views
views
93
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
23,238
views
views
94
Shinji Mikami
Japanese video game designer
23,209
views
views
95
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
23,138
views
views
96
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
22,980
views
views
97
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
22,913
views
views
98
Nellie Bly
American journalist
22,888
views
views
99
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
22,886
views
views
100
Leslie Benzies
Scottish computer programmer and businessman
22,844
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