Trending Programmers in Germany — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the German-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Germany. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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Ranked
260,599
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
40,846
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
33,948
views
views
3
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
13,459
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
11,404
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
10,928
views
views
6
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
10,736
views
views
7
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
9,169
views
views
8
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
7,634
views
views
9
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
6,583
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
5,217
views
views
11
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
4,907
views
views
12
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
4,800
views
views
13
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,577
views
views
14
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
4,551
views
views
15
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
4,222
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
4,208
views
views
17
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
4,115
views
views
18
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
4,064
views
views
19
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
3,719
views
views
20
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
3,242
views
views
21
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,238
views
views
22
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
3,079
views
views
23
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
3,038
views
views
24
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
2,207
views
views
25
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
2,206
views
views
26
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
2,088
views
views
27
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
2,008
views
views
28
Aya Jaff
German founder
1,907
views
views
29
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
1,567
views
views
30
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
1,514
views
views
31
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
1,464
views
views
32
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
1,430
views
views
33
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
1,410
views
views
34
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
1,408
views
views
35
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,327
views
views
36
Tom Scott
English presenter
1,202
views
views
37
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
1,123
views
views
38
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
1,082
views
views
39
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
1,059
views
views
40
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
966
views
views
41
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
962
views
views
42
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
930
views
views
43
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
907
views
views
44
Felix von Leitner
German IT security expert
876
views
views
45
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
840
views
views
46
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
822
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
817
views
views
48
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
804
views
views
49
Armin Ronacher
software developer
738
views
views
50
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
735
views
views
51
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
730
views
views
52
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
726
views
views
53
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
725
views
views
54
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
717
views
views
55
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
712
views
views
56
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
674
views
views
57
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
669
views
views
58
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
666
views
views
59
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
648
views
views
60
Tim Pritlove
German podcaster, media artist and discordianist
614
views
views
61
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
581
views
views
62
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
577
views
views
63
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
575
views
views
64
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
569
views
views
65
Ron Gilbert
American video game designer
566
views
views
66
Hans Reiser
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
559
views
views
67
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
554
views
views
68
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
536
views
views
69
Tom Preston-Werner
American businessman
536
views
views
70
Michael Traut
529
views
views
71
Norbert Scheuer
German writer
523
views
views
72
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
492
views
views
73
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
486
views
views
74
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
485
views
views
75
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
485
views
views
76
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
462
views
views
77
Naomi Novik
American writer
455
views
views
78
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
454
views
views
79
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
451
views
views
80
Ryan Dahl
American software engineer
434
views
views
81
John Romero
American video game designer
431
views
views
82
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
425
views
views
83
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
414
views
views
84
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
409
views
views
85
America Olivo
American actress and singer
408
views
views
86
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
396
views
views
87
Frank Karlitschek
German software programmer
395
views
views
88
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
382
views
views
89
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
380
views
views
90
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
373
views
views
91
George Hotz
American hacker
365
views
views
92
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
362
views
views
93
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
357
views
views
94
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
347
views
views
95
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
343
views
views
96
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
334
views
views
97
Maurice Conrad
German politician
321
views
views
98
Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
313
views
views
99
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
287
views
views
100
Manfred Trenz
German video game designer
284
views
views