Trending Programmers in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). 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 — Measured from the Japanese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Japan. 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
231,577
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
40,850
views
views
2
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
18,336
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
17,688
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
14,738
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
10,854
views
views
6
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
10,532
views
views
7
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
8,278
views
views
8
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
6,027
views
views
9
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
6,013
views
views
10
Isamu Kaneko
Japanese computer scientist
5,196
views
views
11
Satoshi Nakajima
Japanese programmer
4,115
views
views
12
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
3,879
views
views
13
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
3,791
views
views
14
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,667
views
views
15
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
2,912
views
views
16
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
2,896
views
views
17
Kensuke Ushio
Japanese composer, keyboardist (1983-)
2,688
views
views
18
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
2,379
views
views
19
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
2,349
views
views
20
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
2,110
views
views
21
Takeshi Ueda
Japanese musician
2,080
views
views
22
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
1,877
views
views
23
Yuyuko Takemiya
Japanese writer
1,749
views
views
24
Chieko Asakawa
Japanese information engineer (1958-)
1,728
views
views
25
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
1,678
views
views
26
Hal Emmerich
fictional character from the Metal Gear series
1,675
views
views
27
Nasir Gebelli
American video game designer
1,648
views
views
28
Masako Wakamiya
1,641
views
views
29
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
1,611
views
views
30
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
1,577
views
views
31
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
1,510
views
views
32
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
1,443
views
views
33
Tehu
1,416
views
views
34
Hideki Matsutake
Japanese composer, arranger, synthesizer programmer
1,371
views
views
35
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
1,260
views
views
36
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
1,259
views
views
37
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
1,227
views
views
38
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
1,207
views
views
39
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
1,154
views
views
40
Daito Manabe
Japanese media artist (1976-)
1,140
views
views
41
Sunny Emmerich
character in Metal Gear
1,081
views
views
42
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
1,076
views
views
43
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,035
views
views
44
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
991
views
views
45
Daiyū Nobori
945
views
views
46
Shigeki Morimoto
Japanese video game designer
939
views
views
47
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
935
views
views
48
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
915
views
views
49
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
893
views
views
50
Issei Yamamoto
Japanese programmer
827
views
views
51
Shūta Morishima
Japanese voice actor
825
views
views
52
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
762
views
views
53
Kazurō Morita
Japanese computer programmer and video game developer
733
views
views
54
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
717
views
views
55
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
704
views
views
56
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
652
views
views
57
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
648
views
views
58
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
646
views
views
59
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
628
views
views
60
Kazunori Ukigawa
Japanese programmer
628
views
views
61
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
597
views
views
62
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
590
views
views
63
George Hotz
American hacker
585
views
views
64
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
562
views
views
65
Kaz Ayabe
Japanese video game developer
521
views
views
66
Liu Wei
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
514
views
views
67
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
510
views
views
68
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
508
views
views
69
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
490
views
views
70
Martin Fowler
British programmer
483
views
views
71
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
467
views
views
72
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
442
views
views
73
Dan Kogai
Japanese writer
440
views
views
74
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
440
views
views
75
Hiroshi Yūki
Japanese programmer and author
396
views
views
76
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
391
views
views
77
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
388
views
views
78
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
382
views
views
79
Naomi Novik
American writer
368
views
views
80
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
367
views
views
81
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
344
views
views
82
Yūgo Nakamura
Japanese web designer, interface designer, video director (1970-)
341
views
views
83
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
335
views
views
84
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
323
views
views
85
John Romero
American video game designer
320
views
views
86
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
320
views
views
87
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
320
views
views
88
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
317
views
views
89
Hideo Saito
Japanese programmer
306
views
views
90
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
301
views
views
91
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
300
views
views
92
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
299
views
views
93
Eitarō Sano
Japanese programmer and computer scientist
299
views
views
94
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
294
views
views
95
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
280
views
views
96
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
279
views
views
97
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
278
views
views
98
Haruyasu Yoshizaki
Japanese physician, programmer and internist
258
views
views
99
Yuichi Toyama
Video game designer
247
views
views
100
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
246
views
views