Trending Programmers in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed programmers this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
1,311,983
Total Views (this year)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
280,071
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
110,517
views
views
3
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
53,707
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
52,163
views
views
5
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
40,875
views
views
6
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
34,544
views
views
7
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
32,206
views
views
8
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
30,270
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
29,651
views
views
10
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
28,399
views
views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
26,602
views
views
12
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
25,727
views
views
13
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
24,203
views
views
14
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
23,735
views
views
15
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
23,234
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
22,707
views
views
17
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
18,515
views
views
18
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
16,701
views
views
19
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
16,478
views
views
20
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
16,015
views
views
21
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
14,628
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
13,605
views
views
23
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
13,535
views
views
24
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
12,579
views
views
25
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
11,396
views
views
26
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
10,733
views
views
27
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
9,908
views
views
28
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
9,820
views
views
29
John Romero
American video game designer
9,212
views
views
30
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
8,776
views
views
31
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
8,662
views
views
32
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
8,579
views
views
33
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
8,483
views
views
34
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
7,640
views
views
35
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
7,081
views
views
36
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
7,013
views
views
37
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
6,781
views
views
38
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
6,686
views
views
39
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
6,630
views
views
40
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
6,565
views
views
41
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
6,414
views
views
42
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
6,393
views
views
43
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
6,003
views
views
44
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
5,826
views
views
45
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
5,676
views
views
46
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
5,604
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
5,553
views
views
48
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
5,545
views
views
49
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
5,436
views
views
50
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
5,415
views
views
51
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
5,387
views
views
52
Krzysztof Cwalina
Polish swimmer
4,866
views
views
53
Kelley Deal
American musician
4,797
views
views
54
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
4,712
views
views
55
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
4,673
views
views
56
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
4,586
views
views
57
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
4,413
views
views
58
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
4,229
views
views
59
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
4,196
views
views
60
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
4,104
views
views
61
George Hotz
American hacker
4,093
views
views
62
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
4,072
views
views
63
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
3,996
views
views
64
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
3,858
views
views
65
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,831
views
views
66
Alek Minassian
Canadian mass murderer copycatting Elliot Rodger (Born 1992)
3,643
views
views
67
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
3,291
views
views
68
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
3,216
views
views
69
Naomi Novik
American writer
3,215
views
views
70
Near
programmer
3,136
views
views
71
Mike Dailly
video game designer
3,070
views
views
72
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
2,886
views
views
73
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
2,874
views
views
74
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
2,825
views
views
75
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
2,796
views
views
76
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
2,776
views
views
77
Andrew Bosworth
American computer scientist
2,769
views
views
78
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,752
views
views
79
Davey Wreden
video game developer
2,748
views
views
80
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
2,722
views
views
81
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
2,710
views
views
82
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
2,683
views
views
83
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
2,666
views
views
84
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
2,653
views
views
85
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
2,634
views
views
86
Don Mattrick
Canadian video game executive
2,604
views
views
87
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
2,603
views
views
88
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
2,556
views
views
89
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
2,540
views
views
90
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
2,531
views
views
91
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
2,427
views
views
92
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
2,426
views
views
93
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
2,417
views
views
94
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
2,387
views
views
95
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
2,341
views
views
96
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
2,212
views
views
97
Fredrick Brennan
American software developer and type designer (1994–2026)
2,200
views
views
98
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
2,198
views
views
99
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
2,126
views
views
100
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
2,040
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