Trending Programmers in France — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the French-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of France. 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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52,123
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
16,173
views
views
2
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
5,324
views
views
3
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
3,742
views
views
4
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
2,272
views
views
5
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
2,102
views
views
6
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
1,857
views
views
7
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
1,457
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
1,281
views
views
9
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
838
views
views
10
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
823
views
views
11
Paul Le Roux
programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
727
views
views
12
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
711
views
views
13
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
675
views
views
14
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
664
views
views
15
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
572
views
views
16
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
571
views
views
17
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
543
views
views
18
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
495
views
views
19
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
483
views
views
20
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
473
views
views
21
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
449
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
435
views
views
23
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
392
views
views
24
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
370
views
views
25
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
345
views
views
26
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
315
views
views
27
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
271
views
views
28
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
263
views
views
29
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
238
views
views
30
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
235
views
views
31
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
214
views
views
32
Anthony Roux
cartoonist
207
views
views
33
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
198
views
views
34
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
183
views
views
35
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
182
views
views
36
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
181
views
views
37
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
177
views
views
38
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
164
views
views
39
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
163
views
views
40
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
158
views
views
41
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
150
views
views
42
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
148
views
views
43
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
147
views
views
44
Frédérick Raynal
French video game designer
144
views
views
45
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
131
views
views
46
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
131
views
views
47
Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)
129
views
views
48
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
129
views
views
49
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
124
views
views
50
Mark Karpelès
former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
123
views
views
51
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
122
views
views
52
Naomi Novik
American writer
121
views
views
53
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
120
views
views
54
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
119
views
views
55
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
119
views
views
56
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
116
views
views
57
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
114
views
views
58
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
106
views
views
59
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
104
views
views
60
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
100
views
views
61
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
98
views
views
62
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
95
views
views
63
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
94
views
views
64
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
92
views
views
65
Lincoln Child
American writer (born 1957)
89
views
views
66
Robert Topala
Swedish video game programmer (born 1987)
88
views
views
67
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
87
views
views
68
John Romero
American video game designer
86
views
views
69
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
86
views
views
70
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
85
views
views
71
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
82
views
views
72
George Hotz
American hacker
79
views
views
73
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
78
views
views
74
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
78
views
views
75
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
77
views
views
76
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
77
views
views
77
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
76
views
views
78
America Olivo
American actress and singer
71
views
views
79
Avi Schiffmann
American developer
68
views
views
80
Xavier Leroy
French computer scientist and programmer
67
views
views
81
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
66
views
views
82
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
64
views
views
83
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
61
views
views
84
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
61
views
views
85
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
59
views
views
86
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
57
views
views
87
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
54
views
views
88
Jade Raymond
Canadian video game executive
54
views
views
89
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
54
views
views
90
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
53
views
views
91
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
53
views
views
92
Paul Cuisset
Game programmer and designer
50
views
views
93
François Chollet
French machine learning researcher
49
views
views
94
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
48
views
views
95
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
48
views
views
96
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
47
views
views
97
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
46
views
views
98
Jean-Loup Gailly
French computer programmer
42
views
views
99
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
42
views
views
100
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
42
views
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