Trending Programmers — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026. 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. 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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1,445,655
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
303,378
views
views
2
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
282,599
views
views
3
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
72,616
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
72,004
views
views
5
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
68,812
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
40,112
views
views
7
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
36,042
views
views
8
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,185
views
views
9
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
28,277
views
views
10
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
28,023
views
views
11
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
24,533
views
views
12
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
19,745
views
views
13
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
19,507
views
views
14
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
18,146
views
views
15
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
16,662
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
16,653
views
views
17
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
15,881
views
views
18
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
15,510
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
12,604
views
views
20
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
12,433
views
views
21
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
11,887
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
10,912
views
views
23
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
9,664
views
views
24
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
9,407
views
views
25
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
9,351
views
views
26
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
8,492
views
views
27
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
8,368
views
views
28
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
7,320
views
views
29
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
6,997
views
views
30
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
6,820
views
views
31
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
6,420
views
views
32
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
6,294
views
views
33
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
6,158
views
views
34
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
6,110
views
views
35
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
6,021
views
views
36
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
5,864
views
views
37
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
5,797
views
views
38
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
5,461
views
views
39
Nadezhda Angarskaya
4,787
views
views
40
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
4,723
views
views
41
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
4,510
views
views
42
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
4,295
views
views
43
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
4,224
views
views
44
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
4,218
views
views
45
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
4,155
views
views
46
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
4,107
views
views
47
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
4,019
views
views
48
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,954
views
views
49
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
3,912
views
views
50
John Romero
American video game designer
3,875
views
views
51
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
3,820
views
views
52
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
3,767
views
views
53
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
3,749
views
views
54
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
3,679
views
views
55
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
3,672
views
views
56
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
3,605
views
views
57
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
3,567
views
views
58
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
3,456
views
views
59
Ilya Segalovich
Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)
3,439
views
views
60
Tom Scott
English presenter
3,301
views
views
61
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
3,291
views
views
62
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
3,226
views
views
63
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
3,151
views
views
64
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
3,073
views
views
65
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
3,013
views
views
66
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
2,941
views
views
67
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,931
views
views
68
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
2,794
views
views
69
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
2,765
views
views
70
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
2,722
views
views
71
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
2,619
views
views
72
America Olivo
American actress and singer
2,585
views
views
73
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
2,526
views
views
74
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
2,487
views
views
75
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
2,478
views
views
76
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
2,465
views
views
77
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
2,235
views
views
78
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
2,227
views
views
79
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,203
views
views
80
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
2,178
views
views
81
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,993
views
views
82
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
1,966
views
views
83
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
1,960
views
views
84
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
1,935
views
views
85
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
1,892
views
views
86
Naomi Novik
American writer
1,872
views
views
87
George Hotz
American hacker
1,844
views
views
88
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1,698
views
views
89
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
1,697
views
views
90
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
1,685
views
views
91
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
1,672
views
views
92
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
1,556
views
views
93
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
1,542
views
views
94
Paul Le Roux
programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
1,541
views
views
95
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1,538
views
views
96
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
1,525
views
views
97
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
1,519
views
views
98
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
1,478
views
views
99
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
1,471
views
views
100
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
1,462
views
views