Trending Programmers in Germany — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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- 100 programmers — drawn from 2,365,646 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the German-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Germany. 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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73,683
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
21,774
views
views
2
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
4,245
views
views
3
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
3,996
views
views
4
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
3,371
views
views
5
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
3,273
views
views
6
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
2,944
views
views
7
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
2,468
views
views
8
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
2,003
views
views
9
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
1,863
views
views
10
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
1,446
views
views
11
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
1,304
views
views
12
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
1,159
views
views
13
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
1,046
views
views
14
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
1,034
views
views
15
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
977
views
views
16
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
954
views
views
17
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
882
views
views
18
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
809
views
views
19
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
800
views
views
20
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
793
views
views
21
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
782
views
views
22
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
726
views
views
23
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
722
views
views
24
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
613
views
views
25
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
486
views
views
26
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
477
views
views
27
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
460
views
views
28
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
442
views
views
29
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
442
views
views
30
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
430
views
views
31
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
406
views
views
32
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
356
views
views
33
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
341
views
views
34
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
338
views
views
35
Aya Jaff
German founder
322
views
views
36
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
295
views
views
37
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
292
views
views
38
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
251
views
views
39
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
249
views
views
40
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
231
views
views
41
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
231
views
views
42
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
226
views
views
43
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
223
views
views
44
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
221
views
views
45
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
211
views
views
46
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
211
views
views
47
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
208
views
views
48
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
204
views
views
49
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
200
views
views
50
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
199
views
views
51
Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
197
views
views
52
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
184
views
views
53
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
179
views
views
54
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
177
views
views
55
Tim Pritlove
German podcaster, media artist and discordianist
173
views
views
56
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
173
views
views
57
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
171
views
views
58
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
164
views
views
59
Tom Scott
English presenter
157
views
views
60
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
157
views
views
61
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
152
views
views
62
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
152
views
views
63
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
148
views
views
64
America Olivo
American actress and singer
147
views
views
65
Felix von Leitner
German IT security expert
147
views
views
66
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
143
views
views
67
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
131
views
views
68
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
130
views
views
69
Hans Reiser
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
128
views
views
70
Ron Gilbert
American video game designer
119
views
views
71
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
117
views
views
72
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
114
views
views
73
Frank Karlitschek
German software programmer
113
views
views
74
John Romero
American video game designer
112
views
views
75
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
111
views
views
76
Michael Traut
107
views
views
77
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
104
views
views
78
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
103
views
views
79
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
102
views
views
80
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
99
views
views
81
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
93
views
views
82
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
92
views
views
83
George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman
88
views
views
84
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
86
views
views
85
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux kernel developer
84
views
views
86
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
83
views
views
87
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
81
views
views
88
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
81
views
views
89
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
76
views
views
90
Lennart Poettering
German software engineer
76
views
views
91
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
75
views
views
92
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
74
views
views
93
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
72
views
views
94
George Hotz
American hacker
71
views
views
95
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
70
views
views
96
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
69
views
views
97
Daniel Stenberg
Swedish software developer
68
views
views
98
Kent Beck
American software engineer
66
views
views
99
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
66
views
views
100
Martin Fowler
British programmer
65
views
views