Trending Programmers in USA — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 26 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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1,228,182
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
310,965
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
203,972
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
68,458
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
55,796
views
views
5
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,808
views
views
6
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
30,726
views
views
7
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
29,048
views
views
8
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
26,956
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
24,879
views
views
10
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
17,624
views
views
11
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
16,392
views
views
12
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
15,909
views
views
13
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
15,591
views
views
14
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
13,507
views
views
15
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
13,270
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
13,188
views
views
17
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
13,164
views
views
18
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
12,600
views
views
19
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
12,230
views
views
20
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
11,114
views
views
21
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
10,678
views
views
22
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,513
views
views
23
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
10,375
views
views
24
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
9,684
views
views
25
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
9,061
views
views
26
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
8,791
views
views
27
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
6,677
views
views
28
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
6,558
views
views
29
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
6,381
views
views
30
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
6,367
views
views
31
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
6,338
views
views
32
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
6,275
views
views
33
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
5,950
views
views
34
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
5,876
views
views
35
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
5,758
views
views
36
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
5,241
views
views
37
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
5,225
views
views
38
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
4,704
views
views
39
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
4,678
views
views
40
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
4,667
views
views
41
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
4,650
views
views
42
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
4,505
views
views
43
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
4,397
views
views
44
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
4,342
views
views
45
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
4,227
views
views
46
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
4,201
views
views
47
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
3,947
views
views
48
John Romero
American video game designer
3,757
views
views
49
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
3,697
views
views
50
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
3,630
views
views
51
Tom Scott
English presenter
3,611
views
views
52
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
3,592
views
views
53
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
3,555
views
views
54
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,295
views
views
55
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
3,146
views
views
56
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
3,104
views
views
57
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
3,090
views
views
58
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
3,025
views
views
59
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
2,820
views
views
60
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
2,767
views
views
61
Nasser Yassin
Israeli-Palestinian vlogger
2,706
views
views
62
America Olivo
American actress and singer
2,681
views
views
63
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
2,663
views
views
64
American McGee
American game designer
2,657
views
views
65
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
2,636
views
views
66
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,581
views
views
67
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
2,514
views
views
68
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
2,466
views
views
69
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
2,434
views
views
70
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
2,428
views
views
71
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
2,424
views
views
72
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
2,400
views
views
73
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
2,365
views
views
74
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
2,331
views
views
75
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
2,251
views
views
76
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
2,243
views
views
77
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,191
views
views
78
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
2,154
views
views
79
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,024
views
views
80
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
1,978
views
views
81
Naomi Novik
American writer
1,921
views
views
82
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
1,886
views
views
83
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1,706
views
views
84
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
1,705
views
views
85
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
1,668
views
views
86
George Hotz
American hacker
1,663
views
views
87
Kelley Deal
American musician
1,521
views
views
88
Park Jin Hyok
North Korean computer programmer
1,520
views
views
89
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
1,512
views
views
90
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
1,505
views
views
91
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
1,494
views
views
92
Boris Cherny
Ukrainian programme
1,480
views
views
93
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1,443
views
views
94
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
1,430
views
views
95
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
1,419
views
views
96
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
1,398
views
views
97
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
1,387
views
views
98
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
1,374
views
views
99
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programmer
1,338
views
views
100
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
1,333
views
views