Trending Programmers — all time
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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5,259,811
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
971,170
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
709,098
views
views
3
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
471,568
views
views
4
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
452,029
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
283,539
views
views
6
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
272,015
views
views
7
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
271,058
views
views
8
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
116,362
views
views
9
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
114,983
views
views
10
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
74,655
views
views
11
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
68,802
views
views
12
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
65,691
views
views
13
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
52,644
views
views
14
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
50,792
views
views
15
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
47,263
views
views
16
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
47,070
views
views
17
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
45,583
views
views
18
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
42,200
views
views
19
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
37,223
views
views
20
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
37,176
views
views
21
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
35,054
views
views
22
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
34,119
views
views
23
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
32,046
views
views
24
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
31,641
views
views
25
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
30,134
views
views
26
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
29,682
views
views
27
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
28,384
views
views
28
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
26,971
views
views
29
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
26,845
views
views
30
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
26,500
views
views
31
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
26,290
views
views
32
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
25,724
views
views
33
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
24,919
views
views
34
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
23,474
views
views
35
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
18,454
views
views
36
Tom Scott
English presenter
18,055
views
views
37
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
17,124
views
views
38
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
17,027
views
views
39
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
15,579
views
views
40
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
14,934
views
views
41
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
14,904
views
views
42
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
14,790
views
views
43
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
14,732
views
views
44
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
14,433
views
views
45
John Romero
American video game designer
14,259
views
views
46
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
13,604
views
views
47
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
13,310
views
views
48
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
13,121
views
views
49
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
12,831
views
views
50
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
12,553
views
views
51
Ilya Segalovich
Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)
12,444
views
views
52
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
12,293
views
views
53
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
12,187
views
views
54
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
11,835
views
views
55
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
11,700
views
views
56
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
11,615
views
views
57
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
11,261
views
views
58
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
10,830
views
views
59
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
10,618
views
views
60
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
10,135
views
views
61
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
9,998
views
views
62
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
9,944
views
views
63
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
9,705
views
views
64
Nadezhda Angarskaya
9,122
views
views
65
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
8,965
views
views
66
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
8,725
views
views
67
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
8,578
views
views
68
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
8,182
views
views
69
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
7,882
views
views
70
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
7,761
views
views
71
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
7,683
views
views
72
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
7,527
views
views
73
Alexander Drouz
Game show participant
7,224
views
views
74
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
7,215
views
views
75
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
7,184
views
views
76
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
7,140
views
views
77
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
6,702
views
views
78
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
6,655
views
views
79
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
6,635
views
views
80
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
6,606
views
views
81
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
6,531
views
views
82
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
6,437
views
views
83
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
6,422
views
views
84
America Olivo
American actress and singer
6,400
views
views
85
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
6,324
views
views
86
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
5,882
views
views
87
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
5,797
views
views
88
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
5,789
views
views
89
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
5,640
views
views
90
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
5,581
views
views
91
Garry Newman
British programmer, video games producer
5,529
views
views
92
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
5,401
views
views
93
Naomi Novik
American writer
5,378
views
views
94
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
5,358
views
views
95
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
5,346
views
views
96
George Hotz
American hacker
5,204
views
views
97
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
5,126
views
views
98
Kelley Deal
American musician
5,081
views
views
99
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
5,028
views
views
100
Fredrick Brennan
American software developer and type designer (1994–2026)
4,792
views
views