Trending Programmers in USA — September 2026

1

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

📚 35 citations 📰 63 stories · 11 sources

986,423
views

2

Elon Musk

American businessman (born 1971)

📚 68 citations 📰 3305 stories · 427 sources

543,917
views

3

Sam Altman

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

📚 18 citations 📰 171 stories · 27 sources

491,576
views

4

Mark Zuckerberg

American Internet entrepreneur

📚 34 citations 📰 422 stories · 87 sources

203,413
views

5

John McAfee

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

📚 17 citations

178,933
views

6

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

📚 93 citations 📰 91 stories · 20 sources

159,416
views

7

Carlo Acutis

Italian Catholic saint

📚 7 citations 📰 14 stories · 3 sources

120,197
views

8

Julian Assange

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

📚 67 citations

113,836
views

9

Steve Wozniak

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

📚 30 citations

102,608
views

10

David Heinemeier Hansson

programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails

📚 11 citations

100,671
views

11

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

📚 33 citations

97,167
views

12

Gabe Newell

American computer programmer and businessman

📚 14 citations

81,935
views

13

Demis Hassabis

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

📚 182 citations

78,341
views

14

Satoshi Nakamoto

pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin

📚 10 citations

74,489
views

15

Michael Crichton

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

📚 42 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

71,890
views

16

Andy Weir

American writer (born 1972)

70,919
views

17

Greg Brockman

American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

📚 2 citations

64,239
views

18

Linus Torvalds

Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

📚 29 citations

61,587
views

19

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

55,578
views

20

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer (born 1952)

📚 17 citations 📰 50 stories · 23 sources

54,979
views

21

Paul Allen

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

📚 31 citations

54,828
views

22

Terry A. Davis

American computer programmer (1969-2018)

📚 7 citations

49,947
views

23

David Baszucki

Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation

📚 7 citations

45,663
views

24

Sid Meier

Canadian-American game programmer and designer

📚 7 citations

43,318
views

25

Aaron Swartz

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

📚 20 citations

43,275
views

26

Markus Persson

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

📚 15 citations

42,092
views

27

Marc Andreessen

American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer

📚 15 citations 📰 10 stories · 5 sources

39,359
views

28

Leonid Radvinsky

Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)

33,643
views

29

Jack Dorsey

American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter

📚 20 citations 📰 89 stories · 35 sources

29,238
views

30

Alexey Pajitnov

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

📚 8 citations

27,698
views

31

Grace Hopper

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

📚 39 citations

27,585
views

32

Scott Adams

American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)

📚 25 citations

25,943
views

33

Eugene Roshal

Russian computer programmer

📚 1 citation

25,477
views

34

Jihadi John

British terrorist and murderer

📚 7 citations

23,735
views

35

Zoë Quinn

American video game developer

📚 11 citations

23,660
views

36

Alyssa Rosenzweig

Software developer

📚 4 citations

22,041
views

37

Satoru Iwata

Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)

📚 7 citations

21,172
views

38

Richard Stallman

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

📚 30 citations

20,973
views

39

Dennis M. Ritchie

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)

📚 20 citations

20,431
views

40

Guido van Rossum

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

📚 11 citations

19,929
views

41

John Carmack

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

📚 12 citations

19,262
views

42

Paul Graham

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

📚 13 citations

19,156
views

43

Chris Olah

artificial intelligence researcher

📚 4 citations

19,093
views

44

Patrick Collison

Irish entrepreneur

📚 7 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources

18,513
views

45

Margaret Hamilton

American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)

📚 9 citations 📰 11 stories · 2 sources

17,373
views

46

Tobias Lütke

German entrepreneur and software developer

📚 2 citations

16,942
views

47

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations

16,925
views

48

Henk Rogers

Dutch computer programmer

📚 5 citations

16,783
views

49

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

📚 72 citations

16,540
views

50

Tim Schafer

American video game designer (born 1967)

📚 10 citations

16,344
views

51

Jonathan Blow

American video game designer and programmer

📚 3 citations

15,692
views

52

John Romero

American video game designer

📚 8 citations

15,128
views

53

Jan Koum

Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp

📚 4 citations

14,818
views

54

Brendan Eich

American computer programmer and technology executive

📚 4 citations

14,700
views

55

Dennis E. Taylor

Canadian novelist

📚 5 citations

14,086
views

56

Pierre Omidyar

American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay

📚 9 citations 📰 39 stories · 19 sources

13,749
views

57

Kim Dotcom

German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur

📚 7 citations

13,103
views

58

Vitalik Buterin

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

📚 9 citations

12,841
views

59

Eric Barone

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

📚 7 citations

12,768
views

60

Ken Thompson

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

12,611
views

61

Matt Mullenweg

American entrepreneur

12,523
views

62

Trevor Blackwell

Canadian programmer

📚 3 citations

12,515
views

63

DougDoug

American YouTuber and Twitch streamer

📚 6 citations

12,506
views

64

Hal Finney

American software developer (1956-2014)

📚 2 citations

12,436
views

65

Bjarne Stroustrup

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

📚 23 citations

12,431
views

66

Shawn Fanning

American businessman

📚 2 citations

12,290
views

67

Andrew He

American computer programmer

12,231
views

68

Nat Friedman

American computer programmer

📚 2 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

11,965
views

69

Peter Molyneux

English video game designer and game programmer

📚 7 citations

11,816
views

70

Dorothy Vaughan

African-American mathematician

📚 7 citations

11,793
views

71

Vlad Yatsenko

CTO and Co-founder of Revolut

📚 1 citation

11,733
views

72

SpaceGhostPurrp

American rapper and record producer from Florida

📚 7 citations

11,481
views

73

Richard Garriott

British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur

📚 6 citations

11,332
views

74

Jaron Lanier

American computer scientist, musician, and author

📚 23 citations

10,847
views

75

Mike Harrington

co-founder of Valve Corporation

📚 3 citations

10,840
views

76

David Jones

British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto

10,775
views

77

Ken Liu

Chinese-American writer

📚 49 citations

10,711
views

78

Randall Munroe

American cartoonist, author and engineer

📚 19 citations

10,618
views

79

Scott Forstall

American software engineer

📚 3 citations

10,448
views

80

Abraham Zelmanowitz

9 11 Victim (1945–2001)

10,099
views

81

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

📚 24 citations

9,648
views

82

Naomi Novik

American writer

📚 44 citations

9,295
views

83

Jens Bergensten

Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)

📚 3 citations

9,210
views

84

Kelley Deal

American musician

📚 5 citations

8,479
views

85

April O'Neil

fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

📚 5 citations

8,421
views

86

Mark Cerny

American video game designer

📚 4 citations

8,165
views

87

Richard Powers

American novelist (born 1957)

📚 36 citations

7,867
views

88

Yang Zhilin

Chinese businessman (born 1992)

7,768
views

89

Avie Tevanian

American software engineer

📚 4 citations

7,599
views

90

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)

📚 9 citations

7,470
views

91

Ed Boon

American videogame producer

📚 6 citations

7,215
views

92

Moxie Marlinspike

American computer security expert

📚 9 citations

7,208
views

93

George Hotz

American hacker

📚 5 citations

7,164
views

94

ZUN

Japanese video game developer and composer

📚 9 citations

7,120
views

95

James Gosling

Canadian computer scientist

📚 18 citations

7,080
views

96

Davey Wreden

video game developer

📚 3 citations

7,078
views

97

Chris Sawyer

Scottish game developer

📚 5 citations

7,050
views

98

Clifford Stoll

American astronomer

📚 16 citations

7,011
views

99

Takashi Tezuka

Japanese video game designer and producer

📚 3 citations

6,916
views

100

George Kurtz

American billionaire businessman

📚 6 citations

6,833
views