Trending Programmers in USA — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jeff Bezos. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the English-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of USA. 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
1,036,873
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
268,925
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
182,346
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
56,105
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
46,242
views
views
5
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
26,684
views
views
6
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
26,256
views
views
7
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
23,833
views
views
8
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
23,655
views
views
9
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
21,313
views
views
10
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
14,830
views
views
11
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
13,612
views
views
12
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
12,914
views
views
13
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
12,635
views
views
14
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
11,641
views
views
15
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
11,516
views
views
16
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
10,754
views
views
17
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
10,726
views
views
18
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
10,711
views
views
19
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
9,095
views
views
20
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
9,009
views
views
21
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
8,674
views
views
22
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
8,147
views
views
23
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
7,434
views
views
24
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
7,333
views
views
25
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
7,236
views
views
26
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
6,983
views
views
27
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
5,780
views
views
28
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
5,598
views
views
29
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
5,537
views
views
30
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
5,522
views
views
31
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
5,429
views
views
32
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
5,197
views
views
33
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
5,112
views
views
34
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
4,707
views
views
35
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
4,699
views
views
36
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
4,266
views
views
37
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
3,876
views
views
38
Natachai Boonprasert
Thai actor
3,838
views
views
39
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
3,797
views
views
40
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
3,721
views
views
41
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
3,706
views
views
42
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
3,605
views
views
43
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
3,604
views
views
44
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
3,581
views
views
45
Avie Tevanian
American software engineer
3,563
views
views
46
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
3,283
views
views
47
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
3,129
views
views
48
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
3,093
views
views
49
Tom Scott
English presenter
3,086
views
views
50
John Romero
American video game designer
3,032
views
views
51
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
2,932
views
views
52
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
2,615
views
views
53
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
2,614
views
views
54
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
2,592
views
views
55
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
2,584
views
views
56
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
2,516
views
views
57
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
2,514
views
views
58
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
2,487
views
views
59
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
2,429
views
views
60
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
2,261
views
views
61
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
2,245
views
views
62
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
2,186
views
views
63
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
2,154
views
views
64
America Olivo
American actress and singer
2,135
views
views
65
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
2,063
views
views
66
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
2,053
views
views
67
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
2,043
views
views
68
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
2,027
views
views
69
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
1,991
views
views
70
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
1,957
views
views
71
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
1,927
views
views
72
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
1,920
views
views
73
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
1,862
views
views
74
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
1,800
views
views
75
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
1,685
views
views
76
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,646
views
views
77
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
1,637
views
views
78
Swen Vincke
Belgian video game designer, programmer and director
1,575
views
views
79
Naomi Novik
American writer
1,531
views
views
80
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
1,504
views
views
81
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1,438
views
views
82
George Hotz
American hacker
1,405
views
views
83
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
1,376
views
views
84
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
1,314
views
views
85
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
1,245
views
views
86
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1,222
views
views
87
Rhianna Pratchett
English video game writer and journalist (born 1976)
1,206
views
views
88
Aleksandr Tsoi
Russian musician
1,188
views
views
89
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
1,179
views
views
90
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
1,176
views
views
91
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
1,168
views
views
92
Kelley Deal
American musician
1,163
views
views
93
Gennady Korotkevich
Belarusian competitive programmer
1,154
views
views
94
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
1,136
views
views
95
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
1,133
views
views
96
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
1,133
views
views
97
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
1,106
views
views
98
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
1,093
views
views
99
Mike Dailly
video game designer
1,092
views
views
100
Boris Cherny
Ukrainian programme
1,091
views
views