Trending Programmers in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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- 100 programmers — drawn from 3,149,766 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
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
279,419
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
43,982
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
35,986
views
views
3
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
14,034
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
12,236
views
views
5
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
11,854
views
views
6
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
11,704
views
views
7
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
9,567
views
views
8
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
8,375
views
views
9
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
6,884
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
5,762
views
views
11
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
5,202
views
views
12
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
5,027
views
views
13
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,826
views
views
14
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
4,818
views
views
15
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
4,759
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
4,567
views
views
17
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
4,363
views
views
18
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
4,323
views
views
19
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
3,899
views
views
20
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,654
views
views
21
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
3,442
views
views
22
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
3,281
views
views
23
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
3,228
views
views
24
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
2,380
views
views
25
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
2,377
views
views
26
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
2,232
views
views
27
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
2,106
views
views
28
Aya Jaff
German founder
2,032
views
views
29
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
1,705
views
views
30
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
1,694
views
views
31
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
1,598
views
views
32
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
1,526
views
views
33
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
1,508
views
views
34
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
1,485
views
views
35
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,463
views
views
36
Tom Scott
English presenter
1,253
views
views
37
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
1,230
views
views
38
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
1,217
views
views
39
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
1,175
views
views
40
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
1,057
views
views
41
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
1,018
views
views
42
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
991
views
views
43
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
973
views
views
44
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
914
views
views
45
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
910
views
views
46
Felix von Leitner
German IT security expert
905
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
888
views
views
48
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
856
views
views
49
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
823
views
views
50
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
813
views
views
51
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
799
views
views
52
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
780
views
views
53
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
776
views
views
54
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
753
views
views
55
Armin Ronacher
software developer
750
views
views
56
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
750
views
views
57
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
716
views
views
58
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
704
views
views
59
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
694
views
views
60
Tim Pritlove
German podcaster, media artist and discordianist
655
views
views
61
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
652
views
views
62
Ron Gilbert
American video game designer
626
views
views
63
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
624
views
views
64
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
615
views
views
65
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
608
views
views
66
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
606
views
views
67
Hans Reiser
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
591
views
views
68
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
590
views
views
69
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
563
views
views
70
Michael Traut
550
views
views
71
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
544
views
views
72
Tom Preston-Werner
American businessman
540
views
views
73
Norbert Scheuer
German writer
534
views
views
74
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
527
views
views
75
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
512
views
views
76
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
494
views
views
77
John Romero
American video game designer
479
views
views
78
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
477
views
views
79
Naomi Novik
American writer
476
views
views
80
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
472
views
views
81
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
472
views
views
82
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
461
views
views
83
Ryan Dahl
American software engineer
447
views
views
84
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
446
views
views
85
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
444
views
views
86
Frank Karlitschek
German software programmer
433
views
views
87
America Olivo
American actress and singer
433
views
views
88
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
425
views
views
89
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
420
views
views
90
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
417
views
views
91
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
416
views
views
92
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
405
views
views
93
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
401
views
views
94
George Hotz
American hacker
389
views
views
95
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
383
views
views
96
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
376
views
views
97
Maurice Conrad
German politician
346
views
views
98
Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
329
views
views
99
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
315
views
views
100
Eugen Rochko
German software developer (born 1993)
302
views
views