Trending Programmers in China — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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- 100 programmers — drawn from 1,261,344 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Chinese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of China. 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
12,128
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
5,915
views
views
2
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
633
views
views
3
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
491
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
432
views
views
5
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
343
views
views
6
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
311
views
views
7
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
305
views
views
8
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
285
views
views
9
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
179
views
views
10
Ruan Xiaohuan
Chinese blogger, dissident
154
views
views
11
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
136
views
views
12
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
134
views
views
13
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
131
views
views
14
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
127
views
views
15
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
106
views
views
16
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
98
views
views
17
Jixian Wang
Chinese video blogger and computer engineer from Ukraine
95
views
views
18
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
90
views
views
19
Liu Wei
Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)
81
views
views
20
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
79
views
views
21
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
74
views
views
22
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
72
views
views
23
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
71
views
views
24
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
62
views
views
25
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
60
views
views
26
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
59
views
views
27
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
58
views
views
28
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
50
views
views
29
李磊 (1971年)
Chinese politician
49
views
views
30
Kensuke Ushio
Japanese composer, keyboardist (1983-)
46
views
views
31
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
41
views
views
32
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
41
views
views
33
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
41
views
views
34
Zhang Xiaolong
Chinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
38
views
views
35
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
37
views
views
36
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
37
views
views
37
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
36
views
views
38
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
32
views
views
39
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
32
views
views
40
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
31
views
views
41
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
30
views
views
42
Aja Huang
Taiwanese programmer
30
views
views
43
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
29
views
views
44
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
28
views
views
45
Luo Yuhao
miHoYo founder
27
views
views
46
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
27
views
views
47
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
26
views
views
48
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
26
views
views
49
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
25
views
views
50
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
24
views
views
51
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
24
views
views
52
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
22
views
views
53
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
22
views
views
54
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
22
views
views
55
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
22
views
views
56
Naomi Wu
Chinese DIY maker
21
views
views
57
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
21
views
views
58
黃敬群
21
views
views
59
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
19
views
views
60
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
18
views
views
61
Timothy Huang
18
views
views
62
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
18
views
views
63
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
18
views
views
64
Tiancheng Lou
Chinese businessman and computer programmer
17
views
views
65
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report
17
views
views
66
Yan Junjie
Chinese businessman (born 1989)
17
views
views
67
Hao Chen
Chinese programmer
17
views
views
68
Yuyuko Takemiya
Japanese writer
17
views
views
69
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
17
views
views
70
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
16
views
views
71
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
16
views
views
72
劉重次
16
views
views
73
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
16
views
views
74
George Hotz
American hacker
15
views
views
75
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
15
views
views
76
Adrian Lamo
American hacker and threat analyst (1981–2018)
14
views
views
77
盧大為
14
views
views
78
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
14
views
views
79
John Romero
American video game designer
14
views
views
80
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
14
views
views
81
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
14
views
views
82
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
13
views
views
83
Rob Pike
software engineer
12
views
views
84
Larry Tesler
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
12
views
views
85
Isamu Kaneko
Japanese computer scientist
12
views
views
86
Barnaby Jack
New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security professional
12
views
views
87
Kent Beck
American software engineer
12
views
views
88
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
12
views
views
89
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
12
views
views
90
Daito Manabe
Japanese media artist (1976-)
12
views
views
91
Ryan Dahl
American software engineer
11
views
views
92
Cleve Moler
American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026)
11
views
views
93
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
11
views
views
94
Howard Scott Warshaw
American game designer and psychotherapist (born 1957)
11
views
views
95
Hiroshi Yūki
Japanese programmer and author
11
views
views
96
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
11
views
views
97
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
11
views
views
98
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)
11
views
views
99
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
11
views
views
100
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
10
views
views