Trending Inventors in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
3,436,543
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
307,267
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
140,641
views
views
3
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
130,789
views
views
4
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
130,023
views
views
5
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
98,071
views
views
6
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
94,794
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
92,597
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
81,334
views
views
9
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
75,043
views
views
10
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
72,834
views
views
11
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
71,701
views
views
12
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
71,243
views
views
13
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
69,216
views
views
14
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
68,973
views
views
15
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
54,114
views
views
16
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
50,655
views
views
17
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
47,077
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
46,775
views
views
19
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
45,577
views
views
20
Luigi Mangione
American suspect of the assassination of Brian Thompson
44,231
views
views
21
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
44,047
views
views
22
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
40,091
views
views
23
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
38,019
views
views
24
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
37,096
views
views
25
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
36,788
views
views
26
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
35,940
views
views
27
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
35,300
views
views
28
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
34,534
views
views
29
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
33,931
views
views
30
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
31,645
views
views
31
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
31,166
views
views
32
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
30,473
views
views
33
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
30,430
views
views
34
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
29,838
views
views
35
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
29,345
views
views
36
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
28,532
views
views
37
Matthew Mercer
American actor
27,654
views
views
38
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
27,389
views
views
39
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
27,371
views
views
40
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
25,860
views
views
41
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
25,253
views
views
42
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
25,185
views
views
43
Gunther von Hagens
German anatomist (1945–2026)
24,895
views
views
44
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
24,769
views
views
45
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
24,451
views
views
46
Abubakar Salim
British actor and game designer
24,232
views
views
47
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
23,775
views
views
48
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
23,273
views
views
49
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
22,342
views
views
50
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
22,298
views
views
51
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
21,763
views
views
52
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
21,313
views
views
53
Levi Hutchins
American clockmaker (1761–1855)
21,235
views
views
54
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
20,897
views
views
55
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
20,838
views
views
56
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
20,184
views
views
57
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
19,981
views
views
58
Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor
19,244
views
views
59
Tony Stark
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
18,073
views
views
60
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
16,991
views
views
61
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
16,679
views
views
62
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
16,589
views
views
63
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
16,588
views
views
64
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
16,494
views
views
65
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
16,273
views
views
66
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
15,994
views
views
67
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
15,972
views
views
68
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
15,779
views
views
69
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer
15,566
views
views
70
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
15,565
views
views
71
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
15,370
views
views
72
Jony Ive
English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple (born 1967)
15,356
views
views
73
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
14,866
views
views
74
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
14,851
views
views
75
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
14,794
views
views
76
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
14,429
views
views
77
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
14,362
views
views
78
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
14,269
views
views
79
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
14,254
views
views
80
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
14,180
views
views
81
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
13,699
views
views
82
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
13,230
views
views
83
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
12,985
views
views
84
Alanah Pearce
Australian video game writer and journalist
12,859
views
views
85
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
12,539
views
views
86
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
12,401
views
views
87
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Japanese video game designer and executive (born 1974)
12,153
views
views
88
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
12,094
views
views
89
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
12,085
views
views
90
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
11,920
views
views
91
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
11,901
views
views
92
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
11,773
views
views
93
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
11,711
views
views
94
Willis Carrier
American inventor (1876–1950)
11,614
views
views
95
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
11,424
views
views
96
Steve Urkel
fictional character on the sitcom Family Matters
11,033
views
views
97
Craig Small
Canadian visual artist and director
10,972
views
views
98
Ash Williams
fictional character from the Evil Dead series
10,920
views
views
99
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
10,885
views
views
100
Gary Gygax
American game designer and author (1938–2008)
10,719
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