Trending Programmers this year
The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
1,411,943
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
304,903
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
117,958
views
views
3
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
59,553
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
57,350
views
views
5
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
42,087
views
views
6
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
36,550
views
views
7
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
36,243
views
views
8
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
34,176
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
31,598
views
views
10
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,980
views
views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
29,758
views
views
12
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
27,926
views
views
13
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
27,235
views
views
14
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
25,494
views
views
15
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
24,830
views
views
16
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
24,517
views
views
17
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
20,808
views
views
18
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
17,682
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
17,621
views
views
20
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
16,545
views
views
21
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
15,126
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
14,799
views
views
23
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
14,170
views
views
24
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
13,172
views
views
25
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
11,829
views
views
26
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
10,894
views
views
27
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
10,255
views
views
28
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
10,036
views
views
29
John Romero
American video game designer
9,511
views
views
30
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
9,249
views
views
31
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
8,936
views
views
32
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
8,904
views
views
33
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
8,649
views
views
34
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
8,439
views
views
35
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
7,932
views
views
36
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
7,639
views
views
37
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
7,567
views
views
38
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
7,380
views
views
39
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
7,349
views
views
40
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
7,154
views
views
41
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
7,062
views
views
42
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
6,883
views
views
43
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
6,356
views
views
44
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
6,123
views
views
45
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
5,983
views
views
46
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
5,955
views
views
47
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
5,927
views
views
48
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
5,803
views
views
49
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
5,761
views
views
50
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
5,522
views
views
51
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
5,506
views
views
52
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
5,034
views
views
53
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
5,013
views
views
54
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
4,970
views
views
55
Krzysztof Cwalina
Polish swimmer
4,868
views
views
56
Kelley Deal
American musician
4,849
views
views
57
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
4,783
views
views
58
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
4,454
views
views
59
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
4,423
views
views
60
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
4,375
views
views
61
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
4,350
views
views
62
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
4,339
views
views
63
George Hotz
American hacker
4,334
views
views
64
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
4,037
views
views
65
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
3,955
views
views
66
Alek Minassian
Canadian mass murderer copycatting Elliot Rodger (Born 1992)
3,643
views
views
67
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
3,397
views
views
68
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
3,364
views
views
69
Naomi Novik
American writer
3,323
views
views
70
Near
programmer
3,141
views
views
71
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
3,093
views
views
72
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
3,078
views
views
73
Mike Dailly
video game designer
3,070
views
views
74
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
3,065
views
views
75
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
3,063
views
views
76
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
2,967
views
views
77
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
2,958
views
views
78
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
2,900
views
views
79
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
2,891
views
views
80
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
2,881
views
views
81
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
2,877
views
views
82
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
2,861
views
views
83
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,827
views
views
84
Andrew Bosworth
American computer scientist
2,784
views
views
85
Davey Wreden
video game developer
2,748
views
views
86
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
2,743
views
views
87
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
2,719
views
views
88
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
2,700
views
views
89
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
2,684
views
views
90
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
2,679
views
views
91
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
2,672
views
views
92
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
2,660
views
views
93
Don Mattrick
Canadian video game executive
2,617
views
views
94
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
2,538
views
views
95
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
2,467
views
views
96
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
2,288
views
views
97
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
2,232
views
views
98
Fredrick Brennan
American software developer and type designer (1994–2026)
2,215
views
views
99
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
2,201
views
views
100
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
2,128
views
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