Trending Programmers in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
16,297
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
3,551
views
views
2
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
1,552
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
984
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
797
views
views
5
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959β2015)
759
views
views
6
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
579
views
views
7
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
534
views
views
8
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
489
views
views
9
Satoshi Nakajima
Japanese programmer
449
views
views
10
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
416
views
views
11
Isamu Kaneko
Japanese computer scientist
311
views
views
12
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
304
views
views
13
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
265
views
views
14
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
244
views
views
15
Kensuke Ushio
Japanese composer, keyboardist (1983-)
236
views
views
16
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
197
views
views
17
KazurΕ Morita
Japanese computer programmer and video game developer
186
views
views
18
Yuyuko Takemiya
Japanese writer
174
views
views
19
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
172
views
views
20
Nasir Gebelli
American video game designer
131
views
views
21
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942β2008)
125
views
views
22
Takeshi Ueda
Japanese musician
120
views
views
23
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
115
views
views
24
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
113
views
views
25
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
112
views
views
26
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
109
views
views
27
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
109
views
views
28
Hideki Matsutake
Japanese composer, arranger, synthesizer programmer
106
views
views
29
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953β2018)
104
views
views
30
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
98
views
views
31
Daito Manabe
Japanese media artist (1976-)
94
views
views
32
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
85
views
views
33
Masako Wakamiya
85
views
views
34
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
85
views
views
35
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
84
views
views
36
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
82
views
views
37
Dan Kogai
Japanese writer
81
views
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
77
views
views
39
DaiyΕ« Nobori
77
views
views
40
Issei Yamamoto
Japanese programmer
72
views
views
41
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
70
views
views
42
Tehu
68
views
views
43
ShΕ«ta Morishima
Japanese voice actor
65
views
views
44
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
65
views
views
45
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
63
views
views
46
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
55
views
views
47
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
53
views
views
48
Hal Emmerich
fictional character from the Metal Gear series
53
views
views
49
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
51
views
views
50
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
50
views
views
51
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
48
views
views
52
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
47
views
views
53
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
46
views
views
54
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
45
views
views
55
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
45
views
views
56
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
44
views
views
57
Shigeki Morimoto
Japanese video game designer
44
views
views
58
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986β2013)
42
views
views
59
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
41
views
views
60
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
40
views
views
61
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
39
views
views
62
Kazunori Ukigawa
Japanese programmer
38
views
views
63
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945β2021)
37
views
views
64
Rob Pike
software engineer
34
views
views
65
Chieko Asakawa
Japanese information engineer (1958-)
32
views
views
66
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
31
views
views
67
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
31
views
views
68
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
29
views
views
69
Hiroshi YΕ«ki
Japanese programmer and author
29
views
views
70
Liu Wei
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
28
views
views
71
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28
views
views
72
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
27
views
views
73
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
26
views
views
74
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
26
views
views
75
Martin Fowler
British programmer
26
views
views
76
Mark Karpelès
former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
25
views
views
77
Hideo Saito
Japanese programmer
25
views
views
78
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
25
views
views
79
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
24
views
views
80
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942β1994)
23
views
views
81
YΕ«go Nakamura
Japanese web designer, interface designer, video director (1970-)
23
views
views
82
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
23
views
views
83
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
22
views
views
84
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
22
views
views
85
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
22
views
views
86
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
22
views
views
87
Sunny Emmerich
character in Metal Gear
22
views
views
88
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
22
views
views
89
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
21
views
views
90
Stanley Jordan
American jazz guitarist
21
views
views
91
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
21
views
views
92
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
20
views
views
93
Phil Zimmermann
creator of Pretty Good Privacy
20
views
views
94
Haruyasu Yoshizaki
Japanese physician, programmer and internist
20
views
views
95
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
20
views
views
96
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
20
views
views
97
Bill Atkinson
American computer engineer, programmer, and photographer (1951β2025)
19
views
views
98
John Romero
American video game designer
19
views
views
99
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
19
views
views
100
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957β2026)
18
views
views
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