Trending Inventors in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed inventors this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Spider-Man.
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Ranked
1,065,515
Total Views (this week)
1
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
88,826
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2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
84,014
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3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
40,248
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4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
39,470
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5
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
31,328
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views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
26,770
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views
7
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
22,731
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views
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
22,119
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views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
21,378
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10
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
20,933
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views
11
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
20,745
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views
12
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
20,416
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views
13
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
20,242
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views
14
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
19,808
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views
15
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
19,126
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views
16
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
15,480
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views
17
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
15,340
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views
18
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
14,765
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views
19
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
14,330
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views
20
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
14,217
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views
21
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
14,212
views
views
22
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
13,747
views
views
23
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
12,549
views
views
24
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
12,379
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views
25
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
12,144
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views
26
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
11,973
views
views
27
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
11,798
views
views
28
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
11,559
views
views
29
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
10,434
views
views
30
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
10,375
views
views
31
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,648
views
views
32
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
9,144
views
views
33
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,024
views
views
34
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
9,000
views
views
35
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8,845
views
views
36
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
8,532
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views
37
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
8,223
views
views
38
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
7,798
views
views
39
Matthew Mercer
American actor
7,736
views
views
40
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
7,674
views
views
41
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
7,659
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views
42
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
7,632
views
views
43
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
7,595
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views
44
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
7,500
views
views
45
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
7,411
views
views
46
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
7,389
views
views
47
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
7,215
views
views
48
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
6,567
views
views
49
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
6,534
views
views
50
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
6,344
views
views
51
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
6,134
views
views
52
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
6,068
views
views
53
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
5,756
views
views
54
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
5,673
views
views
55
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
5,510
views
views
56
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
5,445
views
views
57
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
5,355
views
views
58
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
5,330
views
views
59
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
5,091
views
views
60
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,030
views
views
61
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
4,961
views
views
62
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
4,908
views
views
63
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
4,889
views
views
64
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,760
views
views
65
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
4,724
views
views
66
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
4,663
views
views
67
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,579
views
views
68
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
4,570
views
views
69
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
4,546
views
views
70
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,513
views
views
71
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
4,471
views
views
72
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
4,314
views
views
73
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
4,308
views
views
74
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
4,240
views
views
75
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
4,223
views
views
76
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
4,172
views
views
77
Forge
fictional character in Marvel Comics
4,144
views
views
78
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
4,074
views
views
79
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
4,013
views
views
80
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
3,981
views
views
81
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,963
views
views
82
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,953
views
views
83
Otto Octavius
2002-2007 Spider-Man film series character
3,892
views
views
84
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
3,788
views
views
85
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,755
views
views
86
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
3,627
views
views
87
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
3,582
views
views
88
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
3,566
views
views
89
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
3,493
views
views
90
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
3,450
views
views
91
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
3,423
views
views
92
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
3,419
views
views
93
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
3,389
views
views
94
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
3,323
views
views
95
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
3,305
views
views
96
Jack LaLanne
American exercise instructor (1914–2011)
3,285
views
views
97
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
3,271
views
views
98
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852–1943)
3,246
views
views
99
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,214
views
views
100
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
3,200
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