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The developers gaining attention fastest right now — climbing in search, news, and social chatter, not just the ones already on top.

DevelopersFastest moversUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#26	1	Edsger W. Dijkstra	Netherlands	Developers	65.4	36.7
#28	1	Gabe Newell	United States	Developers	65.3	34.7
#55	—	Satoru Iwata	Japan	Developers	61.2	27.2
#72	—	Mike Harrington	United States	Developers	57.7	27.0
#29	1	Alyssa Rosenzweig	—	Developers	65.2	25.0
#176	—	KU Kazunori Ukigawa	Japan	Developers	49.8	25.0
#37	1	Jeremy Ashkenas	United States	Developers	64.3	23.5
#22	—	Rebecca Heineman	United States	Developers	67.4	20.8
#143	—	Jamshid Sharmahd	Germany	Developers	52.0	19.9
#57	—	Jihadi John	United Kingdom	Developers	60.7	19.8
#137	—	Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed	Egypt	Developers	52.5	18.1
#6	—	Jonathan Blow	United States	Developers	74.5	18.0
#67	—	Niklaus Wirth	Switzerland	Developers	57.9	18.0
#24	—	Eric S. Raymond	United States	Developers	67.3	17.7
#154	—	Gavin Wood	United Kingdom	Developers	51.4	17.6
#148	—	Blake Ross	United States	Developers	51.8	16.9
#162	—	Park Jin Hyok	—	Developers	50.9	16.2
#102	—	Leonard Adleman	United States	Developers	54.8	16.2
#41	—	Eugen Rochko	Germany	Developers	63.2	16.1
#60	—	Alexandra Elbakyan	—	Developers	59.2	15.7
#112	—	Gennady Korotkevich	—	Developers	54.1	15.7
#4	—	Terry A. Davis	United States	Developers	75.8	15.6
#75	—	Gary Kildall	United States	Developers	57.2	15.5
#178	—	Warren Robinett	United States	Developers	49.7	15.4
#56	—	Alexey Pajitnov	United States	Developers	60.9	15.3
#45	—	Markus Persson	Sweden	Developers	62.5	15.2
#9	—	David Plummer	Canada	Developers	71.9	15.0
#12	—	David Heinemeier Hansson	—	Developers	71.0	15.0
#78	—	Leslie Lamport	United States	Developers	57.0	15.0
#89	—	Ian Murdock	United States	Developers	56.0	15.0
#98	—	AA Alfred Aho	Canada	Developers	55.3	15.0
#133	—	JC James Clark	United Kingdom	Developers	52.6	15.0
#144	—	Mitch Kapor	United States	Developers	52.0	15.0
#155	—	Mark Russinovich	United States	Developers	51.4	15.0
#69	—	Andrew S. Tanenbaum	United States	Developers	57.9	13.8
#181	—	Amir Taaki	United Kingdom	Developers	49.5	13.2
#68	—	Brian Kernighan	Canada	Developers	57.9	13.0
#76	—	Tony Hoare	United Kingdom	Developers	57.1	12.9
#19	—	Eugene Kaspersky	—	Developers	68.2	12.7
#103	—	Alan Cox	United Kingdom	Developers	54.8	11.9
#114	—	Bradley M. Kühn	United States	Developers	54.0	11.7
#5	—	Guido van Rossum	Netherlands	Developers	74.7	10.7
#122	—	Khaled Mardam-Bey	United Kingdom	Developers	53.4	10.6
#108	—	David Jones	United Kingdom	Developers	54.2	10.3
#17	—	Ward Cunningham	United States	Developers	68.9	10.2
#48	—	Joshua Bloch	United States	Developers	62.1	10.1
#2	—	Linus Torvalds Creator of Linux & Git	United States	Developers	84.8	10.0
#3	—	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Developers	84.7	10.0
#20	—	Donald Knuth	United States	Developers	68.0	10.0
#59	—	Jaron Lanier	United States	Developers	59.7	10.0
#83	—	Bill Joy	United States	Developers	56.4	10.0
#107	—	Andrew Tridgell	Australia	Developers	54.4	10.0
#73	—	FB Fabrice Bellard	France	Developers	57.6	9.7
#11	—	Anders Hejlsberg	—	Developers	71.5	8.7
#165	—	Andrew Morton	Australia	Developers	50.7	7.8
#8	—	Bjarne Stroustrup	—	Developers	73.2	7.6
#13	—	Yukihiro Matsumoto	Japan	Developers	70.1	7.3
#66	—	Ivan Lanin	Indonesia	Developers	58.0	7.3
#140	—	Jon Lech Johansen	Norway	Developers	52.3	7.1
#120	—	Grady Booch	United States	Developers	53.4	7.0
#32	1	maia arson crimew	Switzerland	Developers	65.0	6.8
#199	—	MT Manfred Trenz	Germany	Developers	48.8	6.7
#99	—	Raymond Tomlinson	United States	Developers	55.3	6.2
#153	—	Raphaël Colantonio	France	Developers	51.5	5.9
#134	—	Tobias Lütke	—	Developers	52.6	5.9
#169	—	Eric Allman	United States	Developers	50.4	5.8
#85	—	Ivan Sutherland	United States	Developers	56.1	5.7
#194	—	Mihai Suba	—	Developers	48.9	5.7
#81	—	Larry Wall	United States	Developers	56.6	5.4
#1	—	Sam Altman CEO of OpenAI	United States	Developers	84.9	5.4
#7	—	George Hotz	United States	Developers	73.7	5.3
#115	—	Charles Geschke	United States	Developers	53.9	5.3
#101	—	Mark Cerny	United States	Developers	54.9	5.1
#21	—	BY Mister J Sons	United States	Developers	67.4	5.0
#117	—	Hans Reiser	United States	Developers	53.8	5.0
#161	—	PS Peter Samson	United States	Developers	51.0	5.0
#113	—	Peter Naur	—	Developers	54.0	5.0
#94	—	Denny Vrandečić	—	Developers	55.7	4.9
#46	—	Dan Bricklin	United States	Developers	62.5	4.7
#182	—	CR Carol Reiley	United States	Developers	49.5	4.2
#168	—	Jon Hall	United States	Developers	50.5	4.1
#175	—	Theodore Ts'o	United States	Developers	49.8	4.1
#92	—	Rasmus Lerdorf	—	Developers	55.8	3.9
#87	—	KP Keith Packard	United States	Developers	56.1	3.8
#30	1	DM Daito Manabe	Japan	Developers	65.0	3.6
#33	1	Ruan Xiaohuan	China	Developers	64.8	3.6
#195	—	SM Shigeki Morimoto	Japan	Developers	48.9	3.4
#84	—	Takashi Tezuka	Japan	Developers	56.2	3.3
#27	1	Jordan Mechner	United States	Developers	65.4	3.3
#126	—	Betty Holberton	United States	Developers	53.2	3.3
#179	—	John Giannandrea	United Kingdom	Developers	49.7	3.2
#121	—	Patrick Volkerding	United States	Developers	53.4	3.1
#118	—	Ulrich Drepper	—	Developers	53.7	3.1
#77	—	Ray Ozzie	United States	Developers	57.0	3.0
#124	—	Larry Tesler	United States	Developers	53.3	2.9
#141	—	Ruth Teitelbaum	United States	Developers	52.3	2.8
#71	—	Sid Meier	Canada	Developers	57.7	2.8
#62	—	MJ Moon Joon Yong	South Korea	Developers	58.9	2.6
#187	—	Matthew Dillon	United States	Developers	49.1	2.6
#105	—	LM Lou Montulli	United States	Developers	54.7	2.5