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People whose online presence is anchored to GitHub, ranked by Fame.am score.

100 profiles indexed·833.3K total followers

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Fame

73.7

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Full Ranking

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	PewDiePie	Sweden	YouTubers	89.5	33.3
#2	new	Linus Torvalds Creator of Linux & Git	United States	Developers	88.8	10.0
#3	new	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.4	0.0
#4	new	Milla Jovovich	United States	Actors	80.5	2.9
#5	new	Nigel Ng	—	Comedians	80.4	24.6
#6	new	Lex Fridman	United States	Academics	76.9	0.6
#7	new	Luigi Mangione	United States	Actors	76.8	8.6
#8	new	Guido van Rossum	Netherlands	Writers	74.7	10.7
#9	new	George Hotz	United States	Developers	73.7	5.3
#10	new	DougDoug	United States	Streamers	73.5	3.5
#11	new	Edward Snowden	United States	Actors	73.4	0.0
#12	new	Bjarne Stroustrup	—	Developers	73.2	7.7
#13	new	David Plummer	Canada	Developers	71.9	15.0
#14	new	Aaron Swartz	United States	Developers	71.9	0.0
#15	new	Rivers Cuomo	United States	Musicians	71.9	0.0
#16	new	Anders Hejlsberg	—	Developers	71.5	8.7
#17	new	Greg Brockman	United States	Founders	71.4	10.0
#18	new	Martin Shkreli	United States	YouTubers	71.3	0.0
#19	new	David Heinemeier Hansson	—	Developers	71.0	15.1
#20	new	Vitalik Buterin	—	Musicians	70.3	0.7
#21	new	Yukihiro Matsumoto	Japan	Developers	70.1	7.3
#22	new	Terence Tao	Australia	Academics	69.8	0.0
#23	new	Ward Cunningham	United States	Developers	68.9	10.2
#24	new	BY Mister J Sons	United States	Developers	67.4	5.0
#25	new	Brendan Eich	United States	Developers	67.3	0.0
#26	new	Eric S. Raymond	United States	Developers	67.3	18.0
#27	new	Peter Steinberger	Austria	Academics	67.0	0.0
#28	new	Jeri Ellsworth	United States	Scientists	66.7	1.6
#29	new	pannenkoek2012	United States	Gamers	66.6	1.5
#30	new	Rob Pike	Canada	Writers	66.0	0.0
#31	new	Robert Cecil Martin	United States	Writers	65.5	0.0
#32	new	Jordan Mechner	United States	Developers	65.4	3.3
#33	new	Nat Friedman	United States	Developers	65.0	0.0
#34	new	Miguel de Icaza	Mexico	Developers	64.6	0.0
#35	new	Felix Reda	Germany	Politicians	63.6	0.0
#36	new	Arthur Mensch	France	Academics	63.3	0.9
#37	new	Eugen Rochko	Germany	Developers	63.2	16.1
#38	new	Daniel Stenberg	Sweden	Developers	62.8	0.0
#39	new	JM Jed McCaleb	United States	Developers	62.4	8.8
#40	new	Chris Wanstrath	United States	Developers	62.4	0.0
#41	new	Matei Zaharia	—	Academics	62.0	3.3
#42	new	Cassie Kozyrkov	South Africa	—	61.7	0.0
#43	new	Terry Cavanagh	—	Actors	61.6	4.8
#44	new	Armin Ronacher	Austria	Developers	61.6	0.0
#45	new	Hugo de Jonge	Netherlands	Politicians	61.5	6.0
#46	new	Paul Buchheit	United States	Business Professionals	61.1	17.2
#47	new	NS Noam Shazeer	United States	—	61.0	25.0
#48	new	Greg Egan	Australia	Writers	60.9	0.0
#49	new	EG Erich Gamma	Switzerland	Writers	60.9	0.0
#50	new	Meredith Whittaker	United States	Academics	60.8	12.3
#51	new	Herb Sutter	United States	Developers	60.5	1.9
#52	new	Jean-Baptiste Kempf	France	Developers	59.5	0.0
#53	new	Michael Widenius	—	Business Professionals	59.4	6.9
#54	new	Mark Adler	United States	Academics	59.0	1.6
#55	new	Jay Graber	United States	—	58.7	0.3
#56	new	Joshua Bloch	United States	Business Professionals	58.5	0.0
#57	new	Joel Spolsky	United States	Developers	58.5	0.0
#58	new	Aravind Srinivas	India	Academics	58.4	0.0
#59	new	Rudy Rucker	United States	Academics	58.1	0.5
#60	new	Ivan Lanin	Indonesia	Developers	58.0	7.3
#61	new	SL Sam Lantinga	United States	—	57.8	5.8
#62	new	BA Brian Acton	United States	Founders	57.3	0.0
#63	new	Suchir Balaji	United States	Academics	57.2	0.0
#64	new	Ray Ozzie	United States	Developers	57.0	3.0
#65	new	KP Keith Packard	United States	Developers	56.1	3.8
#66	new	Tracy Chou	United States	—	56.0	3.3
#67	new	Cher Scarlett	United States	Developers	56.0	1.3
#68	new	Martin Dougiamas	Australia	Executives	55.7	16.4
#69	new	Adji Bousso Dieng	—	—	55.6	24.5
#70	new	Ian Hickson	Switzerland	Developers	55.5	0.0
#71	new	Deborah Berebichez	Mexico	Scientists	55.3	1.1
#72	new	Jason Citron	United States	Founders	55.0	0.2
#73	new	Ron Watkins	United States	Actors	54.9	16.1
#74	new	Peter Murray-Rust	United Kingdom	Scientists	54.5	6.4
#75	new	Ola Bini	Sweden	Activists	54.5	0.0
#76	new	Ian Clarke	—	—	54.4	2.6
#77	new	Paul Vixie	United States	Writers	54.2	0.0
#78	new	Timnit Gebru	United States	Academics	54.0	0.0
#79	new	Bradley M. Kühn	United States	Developers	54.0	11.7
#80	new	Ulrich Drepper	—	Developers	53.7	3.1
#81	new	Spencer Kimball	United States	—	53.7	0.2
#82	new	Sasha Luccioni	Canada	—	53.7	0.6
#83	new	Peter Eckersley	Australia	—	53.5	0.0
#84	new	Amelia Andersdotter	Sweden	Politicians	53.5	0.6
#85	new	Steve Coast	United Kingdom	Founders	53.5	0.0
#86	new	Harald Welte	Germany	Developers	53.5	0.6
#87	new	Diomidis Spinellis	—	Developers	53.0	0.0
#88	new	Stefano Zacchiroli	Italy	Developers	52.7	0.0
#89	new	JC James Clark	United Kingdom	Developers	52.6	15.5
#90	new	Ken Lunde	United States	Writers	52.2	0.0
#91	new	MZ Mark Zbikowski	United States	Developers	51.9	0.0
#92	new	Sonja Lang	Canada	Writers	51.9	2.9
#93	new	Ken Silverman	United States	—	51.4	16.2
#94	new	Barry Smith	United Kingdom	Academics	51.1	3.2
#95	new	Meg Schwamb	United States	Scientists	50.7	0.2
#96	new	DA Dan Abramov Engineer, Redux/React	—	Developers	50.5	0.0
#97	new	Justin Anthony Knapp	United States	Writers	50.3	0.0
#98	new	Dave Raggett	United Kingdom	—	50.3	1.2
#99	new	Danese Cooper	United States	—	49.7	0.0
#100	new	Do Kwon	South Korea	—	49.3	0.3

Fame.am ranks the most prominent people on GitHub by how much public attention they command — not just by follower count. The biggest audience isn't always the biggest name.

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