Trending Inventors in USA — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Steve Jobs. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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1,591,442
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
85,460
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
69,030
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
50,466
views
views
4
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
47,458
views
views
5
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
44,893
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
39,621
views
views
7
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
38,322
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
37,880
views
views
9
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
37,068
views
views
10
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
34,850
views
views
11
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
32,421
views
views
12
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
31,452
views
views
13
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
30,726
views
views
14
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
29,477
views
views
15
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
28,252
views
views
16
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
26,395
views
views
17
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
25,648
views
views
18
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
24,879
views
views
19
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
24,693
views
views
20
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
23,801
views
views
21
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
23,119
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
22,665
views
views
23
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
22,280
views
views
24
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
21,274
views
views
25
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
21,251
views
views
26
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
18,521
views
views
27
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
17,624
views
views
28
Mike Pondsmith
American game designer
16,759
views
views
29
Greg Zeschuk
Canadian businessman
16,396
views
views
30
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
16,219
views
views
31
Casey Hudson
Canadian video game designer
15,740
views
views
32
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
15,549
views
views
33
Richard Fuisz
American physician
15,345
views
views
34
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
15,279
views
views
35
Manuel Alexander Otto
A German computer game developer. He developed the Flash game "Stick Run", which was released on Facebook in C.E.2010.
14,923
views
views
36
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
14,825
views
views
37
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
14,263
views
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
13,564
views
views
39
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
13,507
views
views
40
Matthew Mercer
American actor
13,495
views
views
41
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
13,270
views
views
42
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
13,164
views
views
43
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
12,838
views
views
44
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
12,597
views
views
45
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
12,474
views
views
46
Vince Zampella
American video game designer (1970–2025)
12,217
views
views
47
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
11,962
views
views
48
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,513
views
views
49
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
10,199
views
views
50
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
10,104
views
views
51
Nellie Bly
American journalist
10,024
views
views
52
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
9,760
views
views
53
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
9,684
views
views
54
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
9,597
views
views
55
Tom Swift
fictional literary character and book series
9,564
views
views
56
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
9,193
views
views
57
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
9,167
views
views
58
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
9,061
views
views
59
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,037
views
views
60
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
8,978
views
views
61
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
8,965
views
views
62
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
8,800
views
views
63
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
8,791
views
views
64
Tim Sweeney
American game developer (born 1970)
8,648
views
views
65
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
8,483
views
views
66
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
8,435
views
views
67
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
8,390
views
views
68
Chris Avellone
American video game designer
8,143
views
views
69
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
7,967
views
views
70
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
7,619
views
views
71
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
7,529
views
views
72
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
7,518
views
views
73
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
7,471
views
views
74
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,268
views
views
75
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
7,071
views
views
76
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
6,832
views
views
77
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
6,829
views
views
78
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
6,677
views
views
79
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
6,496
views
views
80
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
6,442
views
views
81
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
6,410
views
views
82
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
6,387
views
views
83
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
6,367
views
views
84
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
6,324
views
views
85
Steve Urkel
fictional character on the sitcom Family Matters
6,309
views
views
86
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
6,243
views
views
87
Ash Williams
fictional character from the Evil Dead series
6,141
views
views
88
Jeff Kinney
American author and cartoonist (born 1971)
6,135
views
views
89
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
6,125
views
views
90
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
6,065
views
views
91
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
6,038
views
views
92
Bob Irwin
Australian naturalist and former zookeeper (born 1939)
5,772
views
views
93
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
5,657
views
views
94
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
5,583
views
views
95
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
5,542
views
views
96
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,484
views
views
97
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
5,460
views
views
98
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
5,424
views
views
99
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
5,416
views
views
100
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
5,393
views
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