Trending Programmers in France this year
The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
17,328
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
4,219
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
1,440
views
views
3
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
1,044
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
1,022
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
899
views
views
6
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
783
views
views
7
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
737
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
705
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
474
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
446
views
views
11
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
320
views
views
12
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
292
views
views
13
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
264
views
views
14
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
240
views
views
15
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
192
views
views
16
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
184
views
views
17
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
168
views
views
18
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
161
views
views
19
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
161
views
views
20
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
154
views
views
21
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
137
views
views
22
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
117
views
views
23
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
116
views
views
24
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
114
views
views
25
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
112
views
views
26
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
110
views
views
27
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
107
views
views
28
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
103
views
views
29
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
101
views
views
30
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
86
views
views
31
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
83
views
views
32
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
83
views
views
33
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
78
views
views
34
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
76
views
views
35
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
76
views
views
36
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
71
views
views
37
George Hotz
American hacker
70
views
views
38
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
67
views
views
39
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
61
views
views
40
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
59
views
views
41
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
56
views
views
42
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
56
views
views
43
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
50
views
views
44
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
50
views
views
45
Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)
47
views
views
46
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
46
views
views
47
Paul Le Roux
programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
45
views
views
48
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
44
views
views
49
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
44
views
views
50
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
39
views
views
51
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
38
views
views
52
Anthony Roux
cartoonist
37
views
views
53
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
36
views
views
54
John Romero
American video game designer
35
views
views
55
Naomi Novik
American writer
34
views
views
56
Stanley Jordan
American jazz guitarist
32
views
views
57
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
32
views
views
58
Frédérick Raynal
French video game designer
30
views
views
59
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
30
views
views
60
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
30
views
views
61
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
29
views
views
62
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
29
views
views
63
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
28
views
views
64
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
27
views
views
65
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
27
views
views
66
Alec Holowka
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
26
views
views
67
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
25
views
views
68
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
25
views
views
69
Xavier Leroy
French computer scientist and programmer
24
views
views
70
Kelley Deal
American musician
24
views
views
71
Jordan Mechner
American video game designer
24
views
views
72
Paul Cuisset
Game programmer and designer
22
views
views
73
François Chollet
French machine learning researcher
22
views
views
74
David Brevik
American video game developer
21
views
views
75
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
21
views
views
76
Robert Topala
Swedish video game programmer
20
views
views
77
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
20
views
views
78
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
19
views
views
79
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
19
views
views
80
Ron Gilbert
American video game designer
19
views
views
81
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux kernel developer
19
views
views
82
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
19
views
views
83
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
19
views
views
84
Jean-Marie Hullot
French computer scientist and programmer (1954-2019)
18
views
views
85
Gilles Dowek
French computer scientist (1966–2025)
18
views
views
86
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
17
views
views
87
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
16
views
views
88
Phil Zimmermann
creator of Pretty Good Privacy
16
views
views
89
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
16
views
views
90
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
15
views
views
91
Kek
French webmaster
15
views
views
92
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
15
views
views
93
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
15
views
views
94
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
14
views
views
95
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
14
views
views
96
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
14
views
views
97
Jean-Louis Gassée
French businessman
14
views
views
98
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
14
views
views
99
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
13
views
views
100
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
13
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