Trending Programmers — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. 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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Ranked
10,517,313
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
1,725,498
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
1,209,074
views
views
3
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
882,892
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
856,719
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
434,393
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
349,948
views
views
7
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
246,745
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
221,219
views
views
9
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
206,931
views
views
10
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
193,039
views
views
11
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
186,184
views
views
12
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
173,812
views
views
13
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
161,585
views
views
14
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
155,293
views
views
15
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
152,811
views
views
16
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
145,702
views
views
17
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
141,820
views
views
18
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
127,072
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
117,176
views
views
20
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
106,419
views
views
21
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
99,540
views
views
22
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
95,575
views
views
23
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
92,638
views
views
24
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
85,694
views
views
25
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
85,003
views
views
26
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
82,168
views
views
27
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
81,976
views
views
28
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
66,007
views
views
29
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
60,112
views
views
30
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
57,662
views
views
31
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Software developer
56,809
views
views
32
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
55,634
views
views
33
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
50,584
views
views
34
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
50,198
views
views
35
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
46,744
views
views
36
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
46,473
views
views
37
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
45,315
views
views
38
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
44,100
views
views
39
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
42,878
views
views
40
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
41,796
views
views
41
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
41,508
views
views
42
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
40,974
views
views
43
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
39,786
views
views
44
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
39,785
views
views
45
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
38,910
views
views
46
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
37,759
views
views
47
John Romero
American video game designer
36,269
views
views
48
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
36,193
views
views
49
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
35,692
views
views
50
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
35,536
views
views
51
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
35,089
views
views
52
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
32,199
views
views
53
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
31,500
views
views
54
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
30,508
views
views
55
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
29,719
views
views
56
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
29,484
views
views
57
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
27,216
views
views
58
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
26,970
views
views
59
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
25,902
views
views
60
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
25,632
views
views
61
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
25,200
views
views
62
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
25,160
views
views
63
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
25,123
views
views
64
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
24,501
views
views
65
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
24,319
views
views
66
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
24,141
views
views
67
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
23,655
views
views
68
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
23,497
views
views
69
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
23,320
views
views
70
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
23,319
views
views
71
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
22,443
views
views
72
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
20,476
views
views
73
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
19,971
views
views
74
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
19,608
views
views
75
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
19,601
views
views
76
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
19,338
views
views
77
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
19,196
views
views
78
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
19,173
views
views
79
Naomi Novik
American writer
19,088
views
views
80
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
19,058
views
views
81
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
19,052
views
views
82
Kelley Deal
American musician
18,545
views
views
83
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
18,349
views
views
84
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
18,100
views
views
85
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
17,737
views
views
86
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
17,510
views
views
87
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
17,153
views
views
88
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
16,894
views
views
89
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
16,432
views
views
90
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
15,458
views
views
91
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
15,363
views
views
92
Andrew He
American computer programmer
15,007
views
views
93
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
14,799
views
views
94
George Hotz
American hacker
14,743
views
views
95
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
14,332
views
views
96
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
14,301
views
views
97
Yang Zhilin
Chinese businessman (born 1992)
14,226
views
views
98
Alec Holowka
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
13,933
views
views
99
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
13,869
views
views
100
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
13,454
views
views