The Official GOAT List: Ranking the Greatest Inventors of All Time

Inventors

Some inventions improve life.

Others rewrite the entire future.

This GoatWars league brings together the innovators who electrified cities, cracked the secrets of physics, launched the digital age, and connected billions of people across the internet.

But invention has never been simple.

Some of these figures were visionary geniuses. Others were ruthless competitors. Some built machines that reshaped civilization. Others discovered the laws that made those machines possible.

So who really deserves the title of greatest inventor of all time?

The misunderstood electrical pioneer?

The entrepreneur who put computers in every pocket?

The scientist who rewrote physics itself?

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List while shaping the global ranking of history’s most influential innovators.

Now the arguments begin.

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All Time ranks by all-time win rate across every head-to-head battle. Latest ranks by latest fan sentiment, updated as new battles are voted on.

1. LEONARDO DA VINCI

74.1% win rate

#1 Greatest Inventors of All Time

2. ALBERT EINSTEIN

62.5% win rate

#2 Greatest Inventors of All Time

3. THOMAS EDISON

61.1% win rate

#3 Greatest Inventors of All Time

4. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

59.5% win rate

#4 Greatest Inventors of All Time

5. NIKOLA TESLA

57.1% win rate

#5 Greatest Inventors of All Time

6. JOHANNES GUTENBERG

51.1% win rate

#6 Greatest Inventors of All Time

7. MARIE CURIE

45.5% win rate

#7 Greatest Inventors of All Time

8. WRIGHT BROTHERS

44.1% win rate

#8 Greatest Inventors of All Time

9. ALAN TURING

36.7% win rate

#9 Greatest Inventors of All Time

10. STEVE JOBS

32.1% win rate

#10 Greatest Inventors of All Time

11. TIM BERNERS-LEE

27.5% win rate

#11 Greatest Inventors of All Time

12. ELON MUSK

18.2% win rate

#12 Greatest Inventors of All Time