Trending Programmers in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed programmers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to 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
8,386,576
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
1,653,801
views
views
2
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
917,185
views
views
3
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
702,054
views
views
4
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
343,728
views
views
5
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
267,172
views
views
6
John McAfee
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
232,038
views
views
7
Carlo Acutis
Italian Catholic saint
174,033
views
views
8
Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
169,451
views
views
9
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
165,449
views
views
10
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
159,199
views
views
11
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
154,872
views
views
12
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
152,891
views
views
13
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
141,427
views
views
14
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
136,671
views
views
15
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
134,351
views
views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
125,234
views
views
17
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
116,272
views
views
18
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
95,395
views
views
19
Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer
93,600
views
views
20
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
93,551
views
views
21
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
87,910
views
views
22
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
87,440
views
views
23
Leonid Radvinsky
Ukrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
78,063
views
views
24
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
77,144
views
views
25
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
72,740
views
views
26
Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986–2013)
72,183
views
views
27
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
72,143
views
views
28
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Software developer
56,459
views
views
29
Jack Dorsey
American computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
55,335
views
views
30
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
53,563
views
views
31
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
53,049
views
views
32
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
48,083
views
views
33
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
46,680
views
views
34
Zoë Quinn
American video game developer
44,205
views
views
35
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
40,532
views
views
36
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
38,485
views
views
37
Jihadi John
British terrorist and murderer
38,459
views
views
38
Tobias Lütke
German entrepreneur and software developer
36,547
views
views
39
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
35,822
views
views
40
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
35,768
views
views
41
Henk Rogers
Dutch computer programmer
34,579
views
views
42
Margaret Hamilton
American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026)
34,570
views
views
43
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
33,180
views
views
44
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
32,793
views
views
45
John Romero
American video game designer
32,613
views
views
46
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
31,978
views
views
47
Chris Olah
artificial intelligence researcher
31,060
views
views
48
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
30,840
views
views
49
Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
29,357
views
views
50
Jonathan Blow
American video game designer and programmer
28,811
views
views
51
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
27,812
views
views
52
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
27,629
views
views
53
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
26,704
views
views
54
Peter Molyneux
English video game designer and game programmer
25,920
views
views
55
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
23,557
views
views
56
DougDoug
American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
23,444
views
views
57
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
23,376
views
views
58
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
23,187
views
views
59
David Jones
British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto
23,172
views
views
60
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
22,950
views
views
61
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
22,907
views
views
62
Dennis E. Taylor
Canadian novelist
22,086
views
views
63
Eric Barone
American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)
21,886
views
views
64
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
21,435
views
views
65
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
21,099
views
views
66
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
20,611
views
views
67
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
20,446
views
views
68
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
20,435
views
views
69
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
20,085
views
views
70
Vlad Yatsenko
CTO and Co-founder of Revolut
19,832
views
views
71
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
18,417
views
views
72
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
18,410
views
views
73
Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
18,174
views
views
74
Kelley Deal
American musician
17,775
views
views
75
Richard Garriott
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
17,722
views
views
76
Shawn Fanning
American businessman
17,718
views
views
77
SpaceGhostPurrp
American rapper and record producer from Florida
17,519
views
views
78
Ed Boon
American videogame producer
17,220
views
views
79
Naomi Novik
American writer
16,917
views
views
80
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
16,813
views
views
81
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
16,397
views
views
82
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
16,082
views
views
83
April O'Neil
fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
15,157
views
views
84
Matt Mullenweg
American entrepreneur
15,032
views
views
85
Andrew He
American computer programmer
15,007
views
views
86
Jens Bergensten
Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)
14,847
views
views
87
Yang Zhilin
Chinese businessman (born 1992)
14,226
views
views
88
Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
14,211
views
views
89
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
13,904
views
views
90
Davey Wreden
video game developer
13,444
views
views
91
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
13,381
views
views
92
Chris Sawyer
Scottish game developer
13,229
views
views
93
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
12,917
views
views
94
Alec Holowka
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
12,915
views
views
95
George Hotz
American hacker
12,489
views
views
96
Moxie Marlinspike
American computer security expert
12,387
views
views
97
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Mark Cerny
American video game designer
11,810
views
views
98
Casey Muratori
programmer and computer graphics researcher
11,736
views
views
99
Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
11,733
views
views
100
Mike Dailly
video game designer
11,649
views
views