Trending Programmers in France — September 2026

1

Elon Musk

American businessman (born 1971)

📚 68 citations 📰 3458 stories · 437 sources

51,681
views

2

Sam Altman

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

📚 18 citations 📰 178 stories · 33 sources

22,336
views

3

Carlo Acutis

Italian Catholic saint

📚 7 citations 📰 14 stories · 3 sources

18,752
views

4

Mark Zuckerberg

American Internet entrepreneur

📚 34 citations 📰 592 stories · 139 sources

15,045
views

5

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

📚 93 citations 📰 100 stories · 18 sources

12,386
views

6

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

📚 35 citations 📰 66 stories · 13 sources

11,686
views

7

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

📚 33 citations

10,522
views

8

Julian Assange

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

📚 67 citations

9,422
views

9

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

4,587
views

10

Steve Wozniak

American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

📚 30 citations

4,124
views

11

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer (born 1952)

📚 17 citations 📰 48 stories · 23 sources

3,394
views

12

Michael Crichton

American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)

📚 42 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

3,280
views

13

Linus Torvalds

Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

📚 29 citations

3,178
views

14

Satoshi Nakamoto

pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin

📚 10 citations

2,864
views

15

Demis Hassabis

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

📚 182 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

2,761
views

16

Gabe Newell

American computer programmer and businessman

📚 14 citations

2,729
views

17

John McAfee

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

📚 17 citations

2,278
views

18

Markus Persson

Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)

📚 15 citations

2,167
views

19

Margaret Hamilton

American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)

📚 9 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

1,952
views

20

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations

1,752
views

21

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

📚 30 citations

1,713
views

22

Paul Allen

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)

📚 31 citations

1,637
views

23

Aaron Swartz

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)

📚 20 citations

1,592
views

24

David Baszucki

Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation

📚 7 citations

1,574
views

25

Satoru Iwata

Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)

📚 7 citations

1,348
views

26

David Heinemeier Hansson

programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails

📚 11 citations

1,317
views

27

Dorothy Vaughan

African-American mathematician

📚 7 citations

1,188
views

28

Andy Weir

American writer (born 1972)

1,187
views

29

Guido van Rossum

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

📚 11 citations

1,164
views

30

Pierre Omidyar

American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay

📚 9 citations 📰 39 stories · 19 sources

1,149
views

31

Jan Koum

Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp

📚 4 citations

1,040
views

32

Richard Powers

American novelist (born 1957)

📚 36 citations

1,024
views

33

Alexey Pajitnov

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

📚 8 citations

1,007
views

34

Marc Andreessen

American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer

📚 15 citations 📰 15 stories · 8 sources

958
views

35

Lincoln Child

American writer (born 1957)

📚 14 citations

932
views

36

Jack Dorsey

American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter

📚 20 citations 📰 87 stories · 35 sources

928
views

37

Eugene Roshal

Russian computer programmer

📚 1 citation

865
views

38

Peter Molyneux

English video game designer and game programmer

📚 7 citations

850
views

39

Kim Dotcom

German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur

📚 7 citations

832
views

40

Fabrice Bellard

French computer programmer

📚 4 citations

814
views

41

Terry A. Davis

American computer programmer (1969-2018)

📚 7 citations

783
views

42

Anthony Roux

cartoonist

📚 7 citations

766
views

43

Leonid Radvinsky

Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)

751
views

44

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

📚 72 citations

706
views

45

Dennis M. Ritchie

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

📚 20 citations

669
views

46

Brendan Eich

American computer programmer and technology executive

📚 4 citations

650
views

47

Paul Graham

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

📚 13 citations

641
views

48

Naomi Novik

American writer

📚 44 citations

640
views

49

Henk Rogers

Dutch computer programmer

📚 5 citations

635
views

50

Eric Barone

American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)

📚 7 citations

632
views

51

Hal Finney

American software developer (1956-2014)

📚 2 citations

624
views

52

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations

621
views

53

Jihadi John

British terrorist and murderer

📚 7 citations

612
views

54

John Carmack

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

📚 12 citations

580
views

55

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

📚 23 citations

579
views

56

Vitalik Buterin

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

📚 9 citations

550
views

57

François Chollet

French machine learning researcher

📚 3 citations

524
views

58

Frédérick Raynal

French video game designer

📚 3 citations

497
views

59

Robert Cailliau

Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)

📚 12 citations

468
views

60

Sid Meier

Canadian-American game programmer and designer

📚 7 citations

467
views

61

Ken Thompson

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

444
views

62

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)

📚 9 citations

421
views

63

John Romero

American video game designer

📚 8 citations

418
views

64

Jonathan Blow

American video game designer and programmer

📚 3 citations

414
views

65

Lionel Dricot

Belgian author and blogger

381
views

66

Tobias Lütke

German entrepreneur and software developer

📚 2 citations

380
views

67

Takashi Tezuka

Japanese video game designer and producer

📚 3 citations

375
views

68

Ken Liu

Chinese-American writer

📚 49 citations

373
views

69

David Jones

British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto

369
views

70

Ando Masahashi

fictional character

📚 2 citations

368
views

71

Raymond Tomlinson

American computer programmer (1941-2016)

📚 17 citations

365
views

72

Mark Karpelès

former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox

📚 3 citations

357
views

73

Jean-Marie Hullot

French computer scientist and programmer (1954-2019)

📚 5 citations

355
views

74

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

📚 24 citations

353
views

75

Zoë Quinn

American video game developer

📚 11 citations

348
views

76

Alyssa Rosenzweig

Software developer

📚 4 citations

348
views

77

Jean-Louis Gassée

French businessman

📚 1 citation

341
views

78

April O'Neil

fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

📚 5 citations

339
views

79

Naoki Hamaguchi

video game programmer

336
views

80

Scott Adams

American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)

📚 25 citations

326
views

81

Moxie Marlinspike

American computer security expert

📚 9 citations

324
views

82

Robert Topala

Swedish video game programmer (born 1987)

📚 3 citations

310
views

83

Alexandra Elbakyan

Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

📚 7 citations

294
views

84

Tim Schafer

American video game designer (born 1967)

📚 10 citations

287
views

85

George Hotz

American hacker

📚 5 citations

284
views

86

Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

📚 14 citations

282
views

87

Junichi Masuda

Japanese video game developer

📚 5 citations

282
views

88

Patrick Collison

Irish entrepreneur

📚 7 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources

270
views

89

Jens Bergensten

Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)

📚 3 citations

268
views

90

Gilles Dowek

French computer scientist (1966–2025)

📚 13 citations

259
views

91

Gary McKinnon

British suspected hacker

📚 5 citations

258
views

92

Paul Le Roux

programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration

📚 1 citation

257
views

93

Nat Friedman

American computer programmer

📚 2 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

253
views

94

Jade Raymond

Canadian video game executive

📚 5 citations

251
views

95

Niklaus Wirth

Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)

📚 33 citations

248
views

96

Mark Cerny

American video game designer

📚 4 citations

247
views

97

Ian Murdock

American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)

📚 12 citations

239
views

98

Eric S. Raymond

American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)

📚 15 citations

237
views

99

SpaceGhostPurrp

American rapper and record producer from Florida

📚 7 citations

234
views

100

Xavier Leroy

French computer scientist and programmer

📚 12 citations

232
views