Trending Programmers in Germany — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 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
84,226
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
24,380
views
views
2
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
5,079
views
views
3
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
4,195
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
3,828
views
views
5
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
3,791
views
views
6
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
3,457
views
views
7
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
2,910
views
views
8
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
2,269
views
views
9
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
2,151
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
1,635
views
views
11
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
1,473
views
views
12
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
1,324
views
views
13
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
1,234
views
views
14
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
1,207
views
views
15
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
1,104
views
views
16
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
1,062
views
views
17
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
1,040
views
views
18
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
1,023
views
views
19
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
965
views
views
20
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
916
views
views
21
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
908
views
views
22
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
840
views
views
23
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
833
views
views
24
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
698
views
views
25
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
622
views
views
26
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
521
views
views
27
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
518
views
views
28
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
516
views
views
29
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
516
views
views
30
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
496
views
views
31
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
471
views
views
32
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
400
views
views
33
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
399
views
views
34
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
392
views
views
35
Aya Jaff
German founder
391
views
views
36
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
351
views
views
37
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
327
views
views
38
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
296
views
views
39
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
280
views
views
40
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
278
views
views
41
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
272
views
views
42
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
260
views
views
43
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
259
views
views
44
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
257
views
views
45
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
255
views
views
46
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
254
views
views
47
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
246
views
views
48
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
237
views
views
49
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
235
views
views
50
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
233
views
views
51
Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
223
views
views
52
Tim Pritlove
German podcaster, media artist and discordianist
216
views
views
53
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
214
views
views
54
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
205
views
views
55
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
202
views
views
56
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
191
views
views
57
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
190
views
views
58
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
189
views
views
59
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
188
views
views
60
America Olivo
American actress and singer
181
views
views
61
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
181
views
views
62
Tom Scott
English presenter
180
views
views
63
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
177
views
views
64
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
170
views
views
65
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
168
views
views
66
Felix von Leitner
German IT security expert
162
views
views
67
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
151
views
views
68
Hans Reiser
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
146
views
views
69
Ron Gilbert
American video game designer
145
views
views
70
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
139
views
views
71
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
137
views
views
72
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
133
views
views
73
Frank Karlitschek
German software programmer
131
views
views
74
John Romero
American video game designer
131
views
views
75
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
128
views
views
76
Michael Traut
120
views
views
77
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
119
views
views
78
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
117
views
views
79
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
113
views
views
80
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
112
views
views
81
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
112
views
views
82
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
109
views
views
83
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
106
views
views
84
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
102
views
views
85
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
102
views
views
86
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux kernel developer
94
views
views
87
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
93
views
views
88
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
89
views
views
89
Lennart Poettering
German software engineer
89
views
views
90
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
87
views
views
91
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
86
views
views
92
George Hotz
American hacker
82
views
views
93
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
80
views
views
94
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
80
views
views
95
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
80
views
views
96
Norbert Scheuer
German writer
77
views
views
97
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
76
views
views
98
Daniel Stenberg
Swedish software developer
74
views
views
99
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
73
views
views
100
Naomi Novik
American writer
72
views
views