Trending Programmers in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the French-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of France. 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
253,414
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
55,900
views
views
2
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
23,776
views
views
3
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
19,796
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
15,944
views
views
5
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
13,408
views
views
6
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
12,694
views
views
7
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
11,259
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
10,127
views
views
9
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,779
views
views
10
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
4,308
views
views
11
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
3,658
views
views
12
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
3,647
views
views
13
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
3,624
views
views
14
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
3,572
views
views
15
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,235
views
views
16
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
2,866
views
views
17
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
2,432
views
views
18
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
2,335
views
views
19
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
2,045
views
views
20
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
1,864
views
views
21
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,827
views
views
22
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
1,798
views
views
23
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
1,753
views
views
24
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
1,657
views
views
25
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
1,507
views
views
26
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
1,424
views
views
27
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
1,330
views
views
28
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
1,305
views
views
29
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
1,216
views
views
30
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
1,214
views
views
31
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
1,156
views
views
32
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
1,093
views
views
33
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
1,065
views
views
34
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
1,059
views
views
35
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
1,006
views
views
36
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
960
views
views
37
Lincoln Child
American writer (born 1957)
946
views
views
38
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
935
views
views
39
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
872
views
views
40
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
860
views
views
41
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
859
views
views
42
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
834
views
views
43
Anthony Roux
cartoonist
803
views
views
44
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
750
views
views
45
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
731
views
views
46
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
709
views
views
47
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
698
views
views
48
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
696
views
views
49
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
692
views
views
50
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
681
views
views
51
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
680
views
views
52
Naomi Novik
American writer
674
views
views
53
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
668
views
views
54
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
635
views
views
55
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
630
views
views
56
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
588
views
views
57
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
588
views
views
58
François Chollet
French machine learning researcher
546
views
views
59
Frédérick Raynal
French video game designer
527
views
views
60
Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)
515
views
views
61
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
511
views
views
62
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
473
views
views
63
John Romero
American video game designer
453
views
views
64
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
442
views
views
65
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
437
views
views
66
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
405
views
views
67
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
405
views
views
68
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
398
views
views
69
Lionel Dricot
Belgian author and blogger
393
views
views
70
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
388
views
views
71
Ando Masahashi
fictional character
376
views
views
72
Raymond Tomlinson
American computer programmer (1941-2016)
376
views
views
73
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
375
views
views
74
Jean-Marie Hullot
French computer scientist and programmer (1954-2019)
373
views
views
75
Mark Karpelès
former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
369
views
views
76
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
367
views
views
77
Jean-Louis Gassée
French businessman
355
views
views
78
George Hotz
American hacker
354
views
views
79
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Software developer
350
views
views
80
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
349
views
views
81
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
345
views
views
82
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
339
views
views
83
Robert Topala
Swedish video game programmer (born 1987)
330
views
views
84
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
321
views
views
85
Paul Le Roux
programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
302
views
views
86
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
301
views
views
87
Junichi Masuda
Japanese video game developer
293
views
views
88
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
288
views
views
89
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
288
views
views
90
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
283
views
views
91
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
282
views
views
92
Gilles Dowek
French computer scientist (1966–2025)
277
views
views
93
Jade Raymond
Canadian video game executive
264
views
views
94
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
260
views
views
95
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
259
views
views
96
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer
258
views
views
97
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
257
views
views
98
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
256
views
views
99
Xavier Leroy
French computer scientist and programmer
256
views
views
100
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
250
views
views