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Trending Programmers in Japan this year

The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.

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16,297
Total Views (this year)
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
πŸ“š 68 citations Person
3,551
views
2
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
1,552
views
3
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
984
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 93 citations Person
797
views
5
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
759
views
6
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
579
views
7
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
Person
534
views
8
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
489
views
9
Satoshi Nakajima
Japanese programmer
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
449
views
10
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
πŸ“š 10 citations Place
416
views
11
Isamu Kaneko
Japanese computer scientist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
311
views
12
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
304
views
13
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
265
views
14
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
244
views
15
Kensuke Ushio
Japanese composer, keyboardist (1983-)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
236
views
16
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
πŸ“š 182 citations Person
197
views
17
Kazurō Morita
Japanese computer programmer and video game developer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
186
views
18
Yuyuko Takemiya
Japanese writer
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
174
views
19
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
172
views
20
Nasir Gebelli
American video game designer
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
131
views
21
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
125
views
22
Takeshi Ueda
Japanese musician
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
120
views
23
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
115
views
24
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
113
views
25
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
112
views
26
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
109
views
27
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
πŸ“š 67 citations Person
109
views
28
Hideki Matsutake
Japanese composer, arranger, synthesizer programmer
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
106
views
29
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
104
views
30
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
98
views
31
Daito Manabe
Japanese media artist (1976-)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
94
views
32
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
85
views
33
Masako Wakamiya
Person
85
views
34
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
85
views
35
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
84
views
36
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
82
views
37
Dan Kogai
Japanese writer
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
81
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
77
views
39
DaiyΕ« Nobori
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
77
views
40
Issei Yamamoto
Japanese programmer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
72
views
41
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
70
views
42
Tehu
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
68
views
43
ShΕ«ta Morishima
Japanese voice actor
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
65
views
44
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
65
views
45
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
63
views
46
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
Person
55
views
47
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
53
views
48
Hal Emmerich
fictional character from the Metal Gear series
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
53
views
49
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
51
views
50
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
50
views
51
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Person
48
views
52
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
47
views
53
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
46
views
54
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
45
views
55
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
45
views
56
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
44
views
57
Shigeki Morimoto
Japanese video game designer
Person
44
views
58
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
42
views
59
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
41
views
60
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
40
views
61
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
39
views
62
Kazunori Ukigawa
Japanese programmer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
38
views
63
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
37
views
64
Rob Pike
software engineer
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
34
views
65
Chieko Asakawa
Japanese information engineer (1958-)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
32
views
66
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
31
views
67
Hal Finney
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
31
views
68
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
29
views
69
Hiroshi YΕ«ki
Japanese programmer and author
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
29
views
70
Liu Wei
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
Person
28
views
71
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Person
28
views
72
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
27
views
73
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
πŸ“š 24 citations Person
26
views
74
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
26
views
75
Martin Fowler
British programmer
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
26
views
76
Mark Karpelès
former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
25
views
77
Hideo Saito
Japanese programmer
Person
25
views
78
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
Person
25
views
79
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
24
views
80
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
23
views
81
YΕ«go Nakamura
Japanese web designer, interface designer, video director (1970-)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
23
views
82
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
23
views
83
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
22
views
84
Richard Garriott
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
22
views
85
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
22
views
86
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
22
views
87
Sunny Emmerich
character in Metal Gear
Person
22
views
88
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
22
views
89
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
21
views
90
Stanley Jordan
American jazz guitarist
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
21
views
91
Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
21
views
92
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
20
views
93
Phil Zimmermann
creator of Pretty Good Privacy
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
20
views
94
Haruyasu Yoshizaki
Japanese physician, programmer and internist
Person
20
views
95
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
20
views
96
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
20
views
97
Bill Atkinson
American computer engineer, programmer, and photographer (1951–2025)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
19
views
98
John Romero
American video game designer
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
19
views
99
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
19
views
100
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
18
views