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Trending Programmers in Russia — the 12 months to October 2026

The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 24 October 2026.

Source: Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
Window: the 12 months to October 2026 · Data as of 24 October 2026
Showing: 100 programmers — drawn from 2,245,125 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window

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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American businessman (born 1971)

📚 68 citations 📰 3458 stories · 437 sources

Anatoly Wasserman

Russian journalist

📚 6 citations

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

📚 18 citations 📰 178 stories · 33 sources

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

📚 93 citations 📰 100 stories · 18 sources

Mark Zuckerberg

American Internet entrepreneur

📚 34 citations 📰 592 stories · 139 sources

American computer programmer and businessman

📚 14 citations

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

📚 67 citations

American business magnate (born 1964)

📚 35 citations 📰 66 stories · 13 sources

Russian musician

📚 3 citations

American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

📚 30 citations

English mathematician (1815–1852)

📚 33 citations

Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

📚 29 citations

Alexey Pajitnov

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

📚 8 citations

Satoshi Nakamoto

pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin

📚 10 citations

American writer (born 1972)

Ilya Segalovich

Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)

📚 9 citations

Eugene Kaspersky

Russian specialist in the information security field

📚 12 citations

Alexander Drouz

Game show participant

📚 6 citations

Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)

📚 15 citations

Soviet news presenter

📚 1 citation

Vitalik Buterin

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

📚 9 citations

Russian YouTuber

Russian military analyst

📚 16 citations

Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp

📚 4 citations

Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation

📚 7 citations

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

Russian computer programmer

📚 1 citation

CTO and Co-founder of Revolut

📚 1 citation

American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

📚 2 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

British computer scientist

📚 23 citations

Michael Crichton

American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)

📚 42 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

📚 30 citations

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)

📚 31 citations

Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)

📚 33 citations

American computer programmer (1969-2018)

📚 7 citations

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

📚 12 citations

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)

📚 20 citations

Nadezhda Angarskaya

📚 1 citation

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer (born 1952)

📚 17 citations 📰 48 stories · 23 sources

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

📚 182 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

Russian mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur

📚 2 citations

Italian Catholic saint

📚 7 citations 📰 14 stories · 3 sources

Simon Osiashvili

Russian poet, singer, and actor

📚 1 citation

fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

📚 5 citations

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

📚 17 citations

American video game designer

📚 8 citations

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

📚 23 citations

Dennis M. Ritchie

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

📚 20 citations

Canadian-American game programmer and designer

📚 7 citations

English video game designer and game programmer

📚 7 citations

Guido van Rossum

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

📚 11 citations

Alexandra Elbakyan

Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

📚 7 citations

Mike Harrington

co-founder of Valve Corporation

📚 3 citations

Vladimir Pentkovski

researcher (1946-2012)

📚 2 citations

American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)

📚 7 citations

Dutch computer programmer

📚 5 citations

British terrorist and murderer

📚 7 citations

David Heinemeier Hansson

programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails

📚 11 citations

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations

Maxim Kononenko

Russian writer (1971-2024)

📚 7 citations

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

📚 72 citations

Leonid Radvinsky

Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)

Swedish video game programmer (born 1987)

📚 3 citations

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations

Yekaterina Samutsevich

Russian musician

📚 5 citations

Gennady Korotkevich

Belarusian competitive programmer

American computer interface expert (1943-2005)

📚 12 citations

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

📚 24 citations

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

Sergey Vakulenko

Konstantin Kotov

Russian activist, defendant in Moscow affairs

📚 1 citation

Russian-Israeli writer

📚 5 citations

American video game developer

📚 11 citations

Evgeniy Antipov

Russian entrepreneur

creator and developer of the nginx Web server

📚 2 citations

American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter

📚 20 citations 📰 87 stories · 35 sources

Jens Bergensten

Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)

📚 3 citations

Igor Magazinnik

israeli-Russian entrepreneur and businessman

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

📚 13 citations

American video game designer (born 1967)

📚 10 citations

Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan

Soviet journalist

American video game designer

📚 4 citations

Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike''

📚 5 citations

American videogame producer

📚 6 citations

Trevor Blackwell

Canadian programmer

📚 3 citations

Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan

African-American mathematician

📚 7 citations

Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)

📚 9 citations

American artist and video game designer

📚 4 citations

Sergey Savelyev

programmer and whistleblower (*1989)

📚 1 citation

Парахин, Михаил Валерьевич

Russian programmer

Russian computer scientist

Belgian video game designer, programmer and director

📚 7 citations

American computer criminal (1983-2008)

📚 2 citations

John Giannandrea

Scottish computer scientist

Japanese video game developer and composer

📚 9 citations

Fabrice Bellard

French computer programmer

📚 4 citations

Soviet naval commander (1935–1993)

📚 4 citations

Aleksandr Livshits

actor (1933-2003)

📚 2 citations

Russian IT expert

📚 4 citations