Trending Programmers in USA — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 27 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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1,195,222
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
282,722
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
191,958
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
71,301
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
55,531
views
views
5
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
30,638
views
views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
29,613
views
views
7
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
29,526
views
views
8
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
26,770
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
25,296
views
views
10
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
17,818
views
views
11
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
16,547
views
views
12
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
16,479
views
views
13
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
16,311
views
views
14
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
13,872
views
views
15
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
13,606
views
views
16
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
13,104
views
views
17
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
12,914
views
views
18
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
12,436
views
views
19
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
11,924
views
views
20
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
10,969
views
views
21
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
10,865
views
views
22
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,348
views
views
23
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
9,860
views
views
24
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
9,825
views
views
25
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
9,685
views
views
26
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
8,759
views
views
27
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
6,665
views
views
28
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
6,567
views
views
29
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
6,411
views
views
30
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
6,409
views
views
31
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
6,338
views
views
32
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
6,271
views
views
33
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
6,264
views
views
34
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
6,122
views
views
35
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
6,067
views
views
36
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
5,903
views
views
37
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
5,130
views
views
38
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
5,073
views
views
39
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
4,916
views
views
40
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
4,734
views
views
41
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
4,673
views
views
42
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
4,625
views
views
43
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
4,595
views
views
44
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
4,200
views
views
45
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
4,174
views
views
46
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
4,102
views
views
47
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
3,899
views
views
48
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
3,701
views
views
49
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
3,677
views
views
50
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
3,632
views
views
51
John Romero
American video game designer
3,528
views
views
52
Tom Scott
English presenter
3,506
views
views
53
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
3,244
views
views
54
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
3,225
views
views
55
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
3,151
views
views
56
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,118
views
views
57
Nasser Yassin
Israeli-Palestinian vlogger
3,065
views
views
58
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
3,054
views
views
59
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,991
views
views
60
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
2,921
views
views
61
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
2,913
views
views
62
George Hotz
American hacker
2,895
views
views
63
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
2,722
views
views
64
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
2,720
views
views
65
America Olivo
American actress and singer
2,689
views
views
66
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
2,676
views
views
67
American McGee
American game designer
2,652
views
views
68
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
2,530
views
views
69
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
2,468
views
views
70
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
2,449
views
views
71
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
2,427
views
views
72
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
2,372
views
views
73
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
2,351
views
views
74
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
2,289
views
views
75
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
2,271
views
views
76
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
2,231
views
views
77
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,169
views
views
78
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
2,141
views
views
79
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,069
views
views
80
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
2,054
views
views
81
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
2,027
views
views
82
Naomi Novik
American writer
1,948
views
views
83
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
1,934
views
views
84
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
1,757
views
views
85
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
1,647
views
views
86
Kelley Deal
American musician
1,638
views
views
87
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1,608
views
views
88
Park Jin Hyok
North Korean computer programmer
1,582
views
views
89
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
1,577
views
views
90
Boris Cherny
Ukrainian programme
1,568
views
views
91
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
1,501
views
views
92
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
1,492
views
views
93
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
1,484
views
views
94
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
1,469
views
views
95
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
1,404
views
views
96
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
1,390
views
views
97
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
1,385
views
views
98
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programmer
1,376
views
views
99
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1,364
views
views
100
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
1,355
views
views