Trending Programmers in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the English-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of USA. 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
5,054,535
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
986,423
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
543,917
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
491,576
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
203,413
views
views
5
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
178,933
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
159,416
views
views
7
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
120,197
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
113,836
views
views
9
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
102,608
views
views
10
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
100,671
views
views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
97,167
views
views
12
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
81,935
views
views
13
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
78,341
views
views
14
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
74,489
views
views
15
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
71,890
views
views
16
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
70,919
views
views
17
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
64,239
views
views
18
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
61,587
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
55,578
views
views
20
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
54,979
views
views
21
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
54,828
views
views
22
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
49,947
views
views
23
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
45,663
views
views
24
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
43,318
views
views
25
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
43,275
views
views
26
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
42,092
views
views
27
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
39,359
views
views
28
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
33,643
views
views
29
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
29,238
views
views
30
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
27,698
views
views
31
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
27,585
views
views
32
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
25,943
views
views
33
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
25,477
views
views
34
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
23,735
views
views
35
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
23,660
views
views
36
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Software developer
22,041
views
views
37
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
21,172
views
views
38
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
20,973
views
views
39
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
20,431
views
views
40
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
19,929
views
views
41
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
19,262
views
views
42
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
19,156
views
views
43
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
19,093
views
views
44
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
18,513
views
views
45
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
17,373
views
views
46
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
16,942
views
views
47
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
16,925
views
views
48
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
16,783
views
views
49
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
16,540
views
views
50
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
16,344
views
views
51
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
15,692
views
views
52
John Romero
American video game designer
15,128
views
views
53
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
14,818
views
views
54
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
14,700
views
views
55
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
14,086
views
views
56
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
13,749
views
views
57
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
13,103
views
views
58
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
12,841
views
views
59
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
12,768
views
views
60
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
12,611
views
views
61
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
12,523
views
views
62
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
12,515
views
views
63
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
12,506
views
views
64
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
12,436
views
views
65
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
12,431
views
views
66
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
12,290
views
views
67
Andrew He
American computer programmer
12,231
views
views
68
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
11,965
views
views
69
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
11,816
views
views
70
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
11,793
views
views
71
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
11,733
views
views
72
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
11,481
views
views
73
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
11,332
views
views
74
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
10,847
views
views
75
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
10,840
views
views
76
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
10,775
views
views
77
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
10,711
views
views
78
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
10,618
views
views
79
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
10,448
views
views
80
Abraham Zelmanowitz
9 11 Victim (1945–2001)
10,099
views
views
81
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
9,648
views
views
82
Naomi Novik
American writer
9,295
views
views
83
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
9,210
views
views
84
Kelley Deal
American musician
8,479
views
views
85
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
8,421
views
views
86
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
8,165
views
views
87
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
7,867
views
views
88
Yang Zhilin
Chinese businessman (born 1992)
7,768
views
views
89
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
7,599
views
views
90
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
7,470
views
views
91
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
7,215
views
views
92
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
7,208
views
views
93
George Hotz
American hacker
7,164
views
views
94
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
7,120
views
views
95
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
7,080
views
views
96
Davey Wreden
video game developer
7,078
views
views
97
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
7,050
views
views
98
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
7,011
views
views
99
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
6,916
views
views
100
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
6,833
views
views