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DevelopersGaining attentionUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#6	—	Jonathan Blow	United States	Developers	74.5	18.0
#9	—	David Plummer	Canada	Developers	71.9	15.0
#11	—	Anders Hejlsberg	—	Developers	71.5	8.7
#17	—	Ward Cunningham	United States	Developers	68.9	10.2
#21	—	BY Mister J Sons	United States	Developers	67.4	5.0
#22	—	Rebecca Heineman	United States	Developers	67.4	20.8
#24	—	Eric S. Raymond	United States	Developers	67.3	17.7
#26	1	Edsger W. Dijkstra	Netherlands	Developers	65.4	36.7
#28	1	Gabe Newell	United States	Developers	65.3	34.7
#29	1	Alyssa Rosenzweig	—	Developers	65.2	25.0
#33	1	Ruan Xiaohuan	China	Developers	64.8	3.6
#37	1	Jeremy Ashkenas	United States	Developers	64.3	23.5
#41	—	Eugen Rochko	Germany	Developers	63.2	16.1
#46	—	Dan Bricklin	United States	Developers	62.5	4.7
#55	—	Satoru Iwata	Japan	Developers	61.2	27.2
#60	—	Alexandra Elbakyan	—	Developers	59.2	15.7
#66	—	Ivan Lanin	Indonesia	Developers	58.0	7.3
#67	—	Niklaus Wirth	Switzerland	Developers	57.9	18.0
#72	—	Mike Harrington	United States	Developers	57.7	27.0
#81	—	Larry Wall	United States	Developers	56.6	5.4
#101	—	Mark Cerny	United States	Developers	54.9	5.1
#102	—	Leonard Adleman	United States	Developers	54.8	16.2
#103	—	Alan Cox	United Kingdom	Developers	54.8	11.9
#108	—	David Jones	United Kingdom	Developers	54.2	10.3
#112	—	Gennady Korotkevich	—	Developers	54.1	15.7
#114	—	Bradley M. Kühn	United States	Developers	54.0	11.7
#115	—	Charles Geschke	United States	Developers	53.9	5.3
#117	—	Hans Reiser	United States	Developers	53.8	5.0
#120	—	Grady Booch	United States	Developers	53.4	7.0
#122	—	Khaled Mardam-Bey	United Kingdom	Developers	53.4	10.6
#133	—	JC James Clark	United Kingdom	Developers	52.6	15.0
#134	—	Tobias Lütke	—	Developers	52.6	5.9
#137	—	Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed	Egypt	Developers	52.5	18.1
#143	—	Jamshid Sharmahd	Germany	Developers	52.0	19.9
#144	—	Mitch Kapor	United States	Developers	52.0	15.0
#148	—	Blake Ross	United States	Developers	51.8	16.9
#154	—	Gavin Wood	United Kingdom	Developers	51.4	17.6
#155	—	Mark Russinovich	United States	Developers	51.4	15.0
#162	—	Park Jin Hyok	—	Developers	50.9	16.2
#169	—	Eric Allman	United States	Developers	50.4	5.8
#175	—	Theodore Ts'o	United States	Developers	49.8	4.1
#176	—	KU Kazunori Ukigawa	Japan	Developers	49.8	25.0
#178	—	Warren Robinett	United States	Developers	49.7	15.4
#181	—	Amir Taaki	United Kingdom	Developers	49.5	13.2