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And I am not talking about only tech project creations. Anything extraordinary that comes to your mind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAC_(Buddy_Blank)
which has some delicious irony since it is about a "One Man Army Corps".
Kirby worked with Stan Lee and some others at Marvel comics to develop the characters and settings that set the foundation for Marvel being... Marvel. Kirby was kinda resentful that Stan Lee hogged the credits for the work. Particularly Stan Lee had a writing credit for all of the books he was involved in, but "writing" includes both planning the scenario and choosing individual words and the illustrators had a lot of input into the scenario.
Looking at OMAC you see Kirby do a really heroic job. The scenario planning is excellent and the writing at the sentence level is fine, but you can see that Lee had a special touch for that which Kirby didn't have.
Linux
Also as a single-person creation, Linux is basically the implementation of an API which existed before -- not only did this bypass a huge amount of work that would go into designing a fundamentally new operating system, but it meant Linus's work would be useful because lots of existing software would run on it.
(I find it depressing that real innovation in operating systems seems impossible because everybody wants to run old software... Thus all the "bloat" has to get put back into the system.)