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Trending Programmers in Japan — September 2026

The 99 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk. Data as of 26 October 2026.

Source: Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
Window: September 2026 · Data as of 26 October 2026
Showing: 99 programmers — drawn from 1,411,216 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window

This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Japanese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Japan. 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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American businessman (born 1971)

📚 68 citations 📰 2958 stories · 345 sources

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer (born 1952)

📚 17 citations 📰 49 stories · 18 sources

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

📚 18 citations 📰 419 stories · 104 sources

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

📚 93 citations 📰 144 stories · 18 sources

Mark Zuckerberg

American Internet entrepreneur

📚 34 citations 📰 283 stories · 38 sources

Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)

📚 7 citations

American business magnate (born 1964)

📚 35 citations 📰 77 stories · 10 sources

Japanese video game developer and composer

📚 9 citations

Satoshi Nakamoto

pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin

📚 10 citations

Japanese computer scientist

📚 1 citation

Audrey Tang

Taiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer

📚 14 citations

Satoshi Nakajima

Japanese programmer

📚 2 citations

American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

📚 30 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

📚 182 citations 📰 8 stories · 4 sources

American writer (born 1972)

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

📚 67 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

Japanese composer, keyboardist (1983-)

📚 5 citations

Japanese video game developer

📚 5 citations

Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)

📚 15 citations

Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

📚 29 citations

Michael Crichton

American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)

📚 42 citations

Japanese musician

📚 3 citations

British terrorist and murderer

📚 7 citations

Japanese information engineer (1958-)

📚 9 citations

fictional character from the Metal Gear series

📚 1 citation

Yuyuko Takemiya

Japanese writer

📚 6 citations

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)

📚 31 citations

Masako Wakamiya

American video game designer

📚 2 citations

English mathematician (1815–1852)

📚 33 citations

Japanese video game designer and producer

📚 3 citations

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

Naoki Hamaguchi

video game programmer

📚 1 citation

Hideki Matsutake

Japanese composer, arranger, synthesizer programmer

📚 4 citations

Alexey Pajitnov

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

📚 8 citations

David Heinemeier Hansson

programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails

📚 11 citations

American computer scientist (born 1940)

📚 19 citations

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language

📚 10 citations

American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

📚 2 citations

character in Metal Gear

Japanese media artist (1976-)

📚 5 citations

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

📚 30 citations

Dutch computer programmer

📚 5 citations

Shigeki Morimoto

Japanese video game designer

American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter

📚 20 citations 📰 23 stories · 6 sources

📚 2 citations

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

📚 13 citations

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

📚 72 citations

Shūta Morishima

Japanese voice actor

📚 8 citations

Japanese programmer

📚 1 citation

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations

Dennis M. Ritchie

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)

📚 20 citations

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations

Guido van Rossum

Dutch programmer and creator of Python

📚 11 citations

Chinese-American writer

📚 49 citations

Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation

📚 7 citations

Kazunori Ukigawa

Japanese programmer

📚 1 citation

American hacker

📚 5 citations

Italian Catholic saint

📚 7 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

Japanese computer programmer and video game developer

📚 1 citation

American video game designer

📚 4 citations

Natachai Boonprasert

📚 1 citation

Marc Andreessen

American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer

📚 15 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

Japanese video game developer

Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

📚 14 citations

Chinese entrepreneur (born 1987)

📰 46 stories · 13 sources

American computer programmer and businessman

📚 14 citations

British programmer

📚 15 citations

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

📚 17 citations

American novelist (born 1957)

📚 36 citations

Vitalik Buterin

Russian-Canadian computer scientist

📚 9 citations

artificial intelligence researcher

📚 4 citations 📰 20 stories · 10 sources

Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan

African-American mathematician

📚 7 citations

Japanese programmer and author

📚 4 citations

American writer

📚 44 citations

Japanese writer

📚 2 citations

Canadian-American game programmer and designer

📚 7 citations

American software developer (1956-2014)

📚 2 citations

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

📚 23 citations

Japanese web designer, interface designer, video director (1970-)

📚 2 citations

American computer scientist

📚 7 citations

Margaret Hamilton

American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)

📚 9 citations 📰 11 stories · 2 sources

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

📚 12 citations

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)

📚 20 citations

American video game designer

📚 8 citations

Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott

British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur

📚 6 citations

Eric S. Raymond

American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)

📚 15 citations

Jens Bergensten

Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)

📚 3 citations

Japanese programmer and computer scientist

American computer programmer and technology executive

📚 4 citations

Japanese programmer

Charles Simonyi

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)

📚 9 citations

Trevor Blackwell

Canadian programmer

📚 3 citations

American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)

📚 25 citations

American computer programmer and author

📚 8 citations

English video game designer and game programmer

📚 7 citations

Video game designer