Trending Programmers this week
The 100 most-viewed programmers this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
35,715
Total Views (this week)
1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
8,877
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2
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
2,105
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3
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
1,638
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4
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
1,546
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views
5
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
1,449
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views
6
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
1,232
views
views
7
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
912
views
views
8
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
770
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views
9
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
739
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views
10
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
705
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views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
624
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views
12
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
595
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views
13
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
573
views
views
14
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
562
views
views
15
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
562
views
views
16
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
529
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views
17
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
522
views
views
18
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
490
views
views
19
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
443
views
views
20
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
410
views
views
21
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
405
views
views
22
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
342
views
views
23
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
325
views
views
24
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
321
views
views
25
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
306
views
views
26
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
288
views
views
27
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
274
views
views
28
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
263
views
views
29
John Romero
American video game designer
261
views
views
30
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
243
views
views
31
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
230
views
views
32
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
198
views
views
33
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
190
views
views
34
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
184
views
views
35
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
184
views
views
36
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
170
views
views
37
Haim Bodek
American developer of trading software
170
views
views
38
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
164
views
views
39
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
161
views
views
40
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
157
views
views
41
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
156
views
views
42
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
156
views
views
43
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
146
views
views
44
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
144
views
views
45
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
140
views
views
46
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
137
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views
47
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programmer
137
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48
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
127
views
views
49
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
127
views
views
50
Kelley Deal
American musician
125
views
views
51
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
122
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views
52
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
121
views
views
53
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
120
views
views
54
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
116
views
views
55
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
114
views
views
56
Naomi Novik
American writer
113
views
views
57
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
113
views
views
58
Mike Dailly
video game designer
111
views
views
59
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
111
views
views
60
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
104
views
views
61
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
103
views
views
62
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
99
views
views
63
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
98
views
views
64
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
95
views
views
65
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
95
views
views
66
George Hotz
American hacker
93
views
views
67
Davey Wreden
video game developer
92
views
views
68
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
91
views
views
69
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
90
views
views
70
Andrew Bosworth
American computer scientist
90
views
views
71
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
89
views
views
72
Alek Minassian
Canadian mass murderer copycatting Elliot Rodger
88
views
views
73
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
87
views
views
74
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
83
views
views
75
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
79
views
views
76
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
79
views
views
77
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
79
views
views
78
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
77
views
views
79
ZUN
Japanese video game developer and composer
74
views
views
80
Felicity Smoak
fictional character from the TV series Arrow
73
views
views
81
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
73
views
views
82
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
73
views
views
83
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
70
views
views
84
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
70
views
views
85
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
70
views
views
86
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
69
views
views
87
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
69
views
views
88
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)
69
views
views
89
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
68
views
views
90
Paul Le Roux
programmer, criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration
67
views
views
91
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
66
views
views
92
Fredrick Brennan
American software developer and type designer (1994–2026)
64
views
views
93
Gary McKinnon
British suspected hacker
62
views
views
94
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
61
views
views
95
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
60
views
views
96
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
60
views
views
97
Mihai Suba
Romanian and Spanish chess player
59
views
views
98
Stanley Jordan
American jazz guitarist
58
views
views
99
Henry Spencer
Canadian computer programmer
57
views
views
100
Don Mattrick
Canadian video game executive
57
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