Trending Programmers in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed programmers this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
897,947
Total Views (this month)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
223,853
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
54,963
views
views
3
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
36,869
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
34,962
views
views
5
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
29,358
views
views
6
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
26,258
views
views
7
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
25,452
views
views
8
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
22,975
views
views
9
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
18,661
views
views
10
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
18,641
views
views
11
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
18,389
views
views
12
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
18,326
views
views
13
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
18,209
views
views
14
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
17,398
views
views
15
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
13,646
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
13,033
views
views
17
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
11,957
views
views
18
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,916
views
views
19
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
10,462
views
views
20
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
10,346
views
views
21
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
9,063
views
views
22
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
8,339
views
views
23
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
7,764
views
views
24
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
7,579
views
views
25
John Romero
American video game designer
7,475
views
views
26
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
7,168
views
views
27
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
7,160
views
views
28
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
7,070
views
views
29
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
7,021
views
views
30
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
6,475
views
views
31
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
6,334
views
views
32
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
4,925
views
views
33
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
4,820
views
views
34
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
4,810
views
views
35
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
4,497
views
views
36
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
4,471
views
views
37
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
4,416
views
views
38
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
4,306
views
views
39
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
4,032
views
views
40
Kelley Deal
American musician
3,832
views
views
41
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
3,826
views
views
42
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
3,687
views
views
43
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
3,601
views
views
44
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
3,580
views
views
45
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
3,474
views
views
46
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
3,432
views
views
47
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
3,399
views
views
48
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
3,373
views
views
49
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,324
views
views
50
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
3,249
views
views
51
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
3,242
views
views
52
George Hotz
American hacker
3,123
views
views
53
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
3,106
views
views
54
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
3,078
views
views
55
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
3,036
views
views
56
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
3,021
views
views
57
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
2,955
views
views
58
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
2,898
views
views
59
Mike Dailly
video game designer
2,723
views
views
60
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
2,669
views
views
61
Alek Minassian
Canadian mass murderer copycatting Elliot Rodger (Born 1992)
2,667
views
views
62
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,573
views
views
63
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
2,549
views
views
64
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
2,517
views
views
65
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
2,462
views
views
66
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,460
views
views
67
Naomi Novik
American writer
2,235
views
views
68
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programmer
2,221
views
views
69
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
2,167
views
views
70
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,157
views
views
71
Andrew Bosworth
American computer scientist
2,089
views
views
72
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
2,082
views
views
73
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
2,067
views
views
74
Davey Wreden
video game developer
2,044
views
views
75
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
1,992
views
views
76
Don Mattrick
Canadian video game executive
1,989
views
views
77
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1,931
views
views
78
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
1,918
views
views
79
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
1,908
views
views
80
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
1,886
views
views
81
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
1,884
views
views
82
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
1,859
views
views
83
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1,790
views
views
84
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
1,783
views
views
85
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
1,772
views
views
86
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
1,745
views
views
87
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
1,732
views
views
88
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
1,729
views
views
89
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
1,699
views
views
90
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
1,681
views
views
91
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
1,672
views
views
92
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
1,666
views
views
93
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
1,629
views
views
94
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
1,540
views
views
95
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
1,515
views
views
96
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
1,499
views
views
97
Park Jin Hyok
North Korean computer programmer
1,497
views
views
98
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
1,496
views
views
99
Adrian Lamo
American hacker and threat analyst (1981–2018)
1,419
views
views
100
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
1,399
views
views