Trending Programmers in Russia — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Russian-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 Russian-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Russia. 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
305,443
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
41,122
views
views
2
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
40,193
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
21,283
views
views
4
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
12,745
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
12,594
views
views
6
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
11,350
views
views
7
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
10,900
views
views
8
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
8,804
views
views
9
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
7,926
views
views
10
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
6,637
views
views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
6,058
views
views
12
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
5,571
views
views
13
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
5,033
views
views
14
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
4,727
views
views
15
Ilya Segalovich
Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)
4,674
views
views
16
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
4,115
views
views
17
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
4,102
views
views
18
Roza Syabitova
Soviet news presenter
4,011
views
views
19
Alexander Drouz
Game show participant
3,738
views
views
20
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
3,485
views
views
21
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
3,433
views
views
22
Andrew Nifedow
Russian YouTuber
3,306
views
views
23
Ruslan Leviev
Russian military analyst
3,096
views
views
24
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
3,015
views
views
25
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
2,566
views
views
26
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
2,423
views
views
27
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
2,185
views
views
28
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
2,125
views
views
29
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
2,003
views
views
30
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
1,986
views
views
31
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
1,883
views
views
32
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
1,787
views
views
33
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,784
views
views
34
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
1,765
views
views
35
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
1,700
views
views
36
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
1,657
views
views
37
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
1,597
views
views
38
Nadezhda Angarskaya
1,548
views
views
39
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
1,482
views
views
40
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
1,479
views
views
41
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
1,464
views
views
42
Igor Ashmanov
Russian mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur
1,398
views
views
43
Simon Osiashvili
Russian poet, singer, and actor
1,354
views
views
44
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
1,285
views
views
45
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
1,197
views
views
46
John Romero
American video game designer
1,110
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
1,052
views
views
48
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
1,051
views
views
49
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
1,029
views
views
50
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
996
views
views
51
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
965
views
views
52
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
964
views
views
53
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
928
views
views
54
Vladimir Pentkovski
researcher (1946-2012)
892
views
views
55
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
877
views
views
56
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
867
views
views
57
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
834
views
views
58
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
814
views
views
59
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
807
views
views
60
Maxim Kononenko
Russian writer (1971-2024)
802
views
views
61
Robert Topala
Swedish video game programmer (born 1987)
783
views
views
62
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
764
views
views
63
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
761
views
views
64
Jef Raskin
American computer interface expert (1943-2005)
757
views
views
65
Sergey Vakulenko
741
views
views
66
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
726
views
views
67
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
717
views
views
68
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
709
views
views
69
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
709
views
views
70
Linor Goralik
Russian-Israeli writer
671
views
views
71
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
659
views
views
72
Yury Maksimov
Russian entrepreneur
645
views
views
73
Evgeniy Antipov
640
views
views
74
Igor Sysoev
creator and developer of the nginx Web server
614
views
views
75
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
607
views
views
76
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
605
views
views
77
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
605
views
views
78
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
602
views
views
79
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
594
views
views
80
Igor Magazinnik
israeli-Russian entrepreneur and businessman
587
views
views
81
Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan
Soviet journalist
578
views
views
82
Minh Le
Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike''
575
views
views
83
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
541
views
views
84
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
521
views
views
85
Sergey Savelyev
programmer and whistleblower (*1989)
503
views
views
86
Alec Holowka
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
497
views
views
87
Парахин, Михаил Валерьевич
Russian programmer
494
views
views
88
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
485
views
views
89
John Giannandrea
Scottish computer scientist
483
views
views
90
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
465
views
views
91
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
463
views
views
92
Andrey Breslav
Russian computer scientist
462
views
views
93
Jonas Pleškys
Soviet naval commander (1935–1993)
434
views
views
94
Konstantin Kotov
Russian activist, defendant in Moscow affairs
434
views
views
95
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
431
views
views
96
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
409
views
views
97
Olga Dergunova
Russian IT expert
407
views
views
98
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
402
views
views
99
Aleksandr Livshits
actor (1933-2003)
398
views
views
100
Grigoriy Bakunov
Russian software developer
391
views
views