Trending Inventors in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Steve Jobs. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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11,486,078
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
643,830
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
503,885
views
views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
445,227
views
views
4
Luigi Mangione
American who killed Brian Thompson
399,629
views
views
5
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
318,170
views
views
6
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
317,008
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
302,640
views
views
8
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
285,861
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
274,269
views
views
10
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
271,756
views
views
11
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
269,905
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
269,533
views
views
13
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
255,854
views
views
14
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
208,646
views
views
15
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
183,196
views
views
16
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
173,614
views
views
17
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
173,172
views
views
18
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
165,449
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
162,509
views
views
20
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
159,199
views
views
21
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
154,872
views
views
22
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
152,891
views
views
23
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
146,892
views
views
24
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
142,129
views
views
25
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
137,661
views
views
26
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
136,864
views
views
27
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
132,178
views
views
28
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
131,847
views
views
29
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
124,610
views
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
117,828
views
views
31
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
116,272
views
views
32
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
110,680
views
views
33
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
109,778
views
views
34
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
103,671
views
views
35
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
102,180
views
views
36
Matthew Mercer
American actor
101,883
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
95,395
views
views
38
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
93,551
views
views
39
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
89,468
views
views
40
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
87,440
views
views
41
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
83,836
views
views
42
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
80,746
views
views
43
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
79,371
views
views
44
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
77,944
views
views
45
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
77,932
views
views
46
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
77,851
views
views
47
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
77,400
views
views
48
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
77,144
views
views
49
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
72,143
views
views
50
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
69,367
views
views
51
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
69,348
views
views
52
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
68,927
views
views
53
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
66,558
views
views
54
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
65,271
views
views
55
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
63,353
views
views
56
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
62,939
views
views
57
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
62,892
views
views
58
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
62,860
views
views
59
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
60,785
views
views
60
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
59,726
views
views
61
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
57,842
views
views
62
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
56,409
views
views
63
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
55,215
views
views
64
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
54,292
views
views
65
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
54,182
views
views
66
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
53,563
views
views
67
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
53,375
views
views
68
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
53,352
views
views
69
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
53,181
views
views
70
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
53,049
views
views
71
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
52,152
views
views
72
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
51,842
views
views
73
James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
50,217
views
views
74
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
49,952
views
views
75
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
48,818
views
views
76
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
48,738
views
views
77
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
48,301
views
views
78
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
47,956
views
views
79
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
47,518
views
views
80
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
47,410
views
views
81
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
47,383
views
views
82
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
47,059
views
views
83
Steve Urkel
fictional character on the sitcom Family Matters
46,826
views
views
84
Bob Irwin
Australian naturalist and former zookeeper (born 1939)
46,055
views
views
85
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
45,446
views
views
86
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
44,814
views
views
87
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
44,610
views
views
88
Bolivar Trask
fictional character in Marvel Comics
44,247
views
views
89
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
44,205
views
views
90
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
43,852
views
views
91
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
43,033
views
views
92
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
42,393
views
views
93
Nellie Bly
American journalist
42,111
views
views
94
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
40,959
views
views
95
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
40,378
views
views
96
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
40,369
views
views
97
Leslie Benzies
Scottish computer programmer and businessman
40,259
views
views
98
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
39,941
views
views
99
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
38,485
views
views
100
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
38,454
views
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