Trending Programmers — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
7,084,136
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
1,051,518
views
views
2
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
823,279
views
views
3
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
810,974
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
638,800
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
288,891
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
236,346
views
views
7
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
192,930
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
163,405
views
views
9
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
141,743
views
views
10
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
134,305
views
views
11
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
109,622
views
views
12
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
107,826
views
views
13
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
101,761
views
views
14
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
95,334
views
views
15
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
91,579
views
views
16
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
89,138
views
views
17
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
86,733
views
views
18
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
84,842
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
76,216
views
views
20
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
69,681
views
views
21
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
66,715
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
61,393
views
views
23
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
58,024
views
views
24
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
56,830
views
views
25
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
52,625
views
views
26
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
47,095
views
views
27
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
43,661
views
views
28
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
41,885
views
views
29
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
39,805
views
views
30
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
39,784
views
views
31
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
37,789
views
views
32
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
35,913
views
views
33
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
33,582
views
views
34
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
32,135
views
views
35
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
31,199
views
views
36
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
30,094
views
views
37
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
27,897
views
views
38
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
25,810
views
views
39
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
25,549
views
views
40
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
25,306
views
views
41
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
23,911
views
views
42
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
23,308
views
views
43
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
22,861
views
views
44
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
22,616
views
views
45
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Software developer
22,389
views
views
46
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
21,650
views
views
47
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
21,168
views
views
48
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
21,162
views
views
49
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
20,764
views
views
50
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
20,426
views
views
51
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
19,676
views
views
52
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
19,463
views
views
53
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
18,947
views
views
54
John Romero
American video game designer
18,485
views
views
55
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
18,470
views
views
56
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
17,261
views
views
57
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
17,217
views
views
58
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
17,211
views
views
59
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
17,144
views
views
60
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
16,834
views
views
61
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
16,260
views
views
62
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
16,254
views
views
63
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
16,029
views
views
64
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
15,400
views
views
65
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
15,043
views
views
66
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
15,007
views
views
67
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
14,358
views
views
68
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
13,975
views
views
69
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
13,883
views
views
70
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
13,836
views
views
71
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
13,330
views
views
72
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
12,829
views
views
73
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
12,804
views
views
74
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
12,738
views
views
75
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
12,717
views
views
76
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
12,700
views
views
77
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
12,614
views
views
78
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
12,564
views
views
79
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
12,394
views
views
80
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
12,275
views
views
81
Andrew He
American computer programmer
12,231
views
views
82
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
11,949
views
views
83
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
11,702
views
views
84
Naomi Novik
American writer
11,358
views
views
85
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
11,079
views
views
86
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
10,774
views
views
87
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
10,621
views
views
88
Abraham Zelmanowitz
9 11 Victim (1945–2001)
10,599
views
views
89
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
10,572
views
views
90
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
10,200
views
views
91
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
9,283
views
views
92
Kelley Deal
American musician
9,197
views
views
93
George Hotz
American hacker
9,177
views
views
94
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
9,134
views
views
95
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
8,765
views
views
96
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
8,598
views
views
97
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
8,421
views
views
98
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
8,224
views
views
99
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
8,188
views
views
100
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
8,077
views
views