Trending Programmers in Russia this year
The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia (Russia). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
21,994
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
2,943
views
views
2
Anatoly Wasserman
Russian journalist
1,798
views
views
3
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
1,442
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
1,106
views
views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
904
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
832
views
views
7
Alexander Drouz
Game show participant
807
views
views
8
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
731
views
views
9
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
532
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
478
views
views
11
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
463
views
views
12
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
455
views
views
13
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
388
views
views
14
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
381
views
views
15
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
361
views
views
16
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
341
views
views
17
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
335
views
views
18
Konstantin Kotov
Russian activist, defendant in Moscow affairs
316
views
views
19
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
303
views
views
20
Roza Syabitova
Soviet news presenter
279
views
views
21
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
276
views
views
22
Ilya Segalovich
Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)
252
views
views
23
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
242
views
views
24
Ruslan Leviev
Russian military analyst
240
views
views
25
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
200
views
views
26
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
183
views
views
27
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
177
views
views
28
Igor Ashmanov
Russian mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur
161
views
views
29
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
155
views
views
30
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
151
views
views
31
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
144
views
views
32
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
141
views
views
33
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
140
views
views
34
Andrew Nifedow
Russian YouTuber
137
views
views
35
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
136
views
views
36
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
133
views
views
37
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
133
views
views
38
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
132
views
views
39
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
126
views
views
40
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
120
views
views
41
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
117
views
views
42
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
113
views
views
43
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
110
views
views
44
John Romero
American video game designer
107
views
views
45
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
101
views
views
46
Nadezhda Angarskaya
100
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
90
views
views
48
Simon Osiashvili
Russian poet, singer, and actor
85
views
views
49
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
83
views
views
50
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
81
views
views
51
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
78
views
views
52
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
77
views
views
53
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
77
views
views
54
Maxim Kononenko
Russian writer (1971-2024)
73
views
views
55
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
71
views
views
56
Linor Goralik
Russian-Israeli writer
71
views
views
57
Evgeniy Antipov
70
views
views
58
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
69
views
views
59
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
66
views
views
60
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
64
views
views
61
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
60
views
views
62
Igor Magazinnik
israeli-Russian entrepreneur and businessman
59
views
views
63
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
59
views
views
64
Igor Sysoev
creator and developer of the nginx Web server
57
views
views
65
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
57
views
views
66
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
56
views
views
67
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
56
views
views
68
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
55
views
views
69
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
55
views
views
70
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
54
views
views
71
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
54
views
views
72
Oleg Bartunov
Russian programmer
53
views
views
73
Yury Maksimov
Russian entrepreneur
52
views
views
74
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
50
views
views
75
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
50
views
views
76
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
49
views
views
77
Alec Holowka
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
45
views
views
78
Andrey Breslav
Russian computer scientist
43
views
views
79
Robert Topala
Swedish video game programmer
42
views
views
80
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
42
views
views
81
Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan
Soviet journalist
41
views
views
82
Jordan Mechner
American video game designer
41
views
views
83
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
40
views
views
84
Vladimir Pentkovski
researcher (1946-2012)
39
views
views
85
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
37
views
views
86
Yan Rachinsky
Russian public figure, ethnographer and human rights activist
36
views
views
87
Aleksandr Livshits
actor (1933-2003)
36
views
views
88
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
35
views
views
89
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
33
views
views
90
Dmitry Kryukov
33
views
views
91
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
32
views
views
92
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
31
views
views
93
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
30
views
views
94
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
30
views
views
95
Igor Danilov
programmer
30
views
views
96
Andrey Stankevich
Russian competitive programming coach
30
views
views
97
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
30
views
views
98
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
29
views
views
99
Park Jin Hyok
North Korean computer programmer
28
views
views
100
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
28
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