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

100 profiles indexed·1.2M total followers

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Full Ranking

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	PewDiePie	Sweden	YouTubers	85.2	25.0
#2	new	Linus Torvalds Creator of Linux & Git	United States	Developers	84.8	10.0
#3	new	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Developers	84.7	10.0
#4	new	Milla Jovovich	United States	Actors	80.8	10.1
#5	new	Luigi Mangione	United States	Actors	79.3	10.0
#6	new	Nigel Ng	—	Comedians	78.9	12.4
#7	new	Andrej Karpathy	—	Academics	77.2	2.1
#8	new	Rivers Cuomo	United States	Musicians	77.1	23.8
#9	new	Lex Fridman	United States	Podcasters	76.7	0.6
#10	new	Guido van Rossum	Netherlands	Developers	74.7	10.7
#11	new	George Hotz	United States	Developers	73.7	5.3
#12	new	DougDoug	United States	YouTubers	73.5	3.5
#13	new	Edward Snowden	United States	Actors	73.4	0.0
#14	new	Bjarne Stroustrup	—	Developers	73.2	7.6
#15	new	David Plummer	Canada	Developers	71.9	15.0
#16	new	Aaron Swartz	United States	Developers	71.8	0.0
#17	new	Anders Hejlsberg	—	Developers	71.5	8.7
#18	new	Greg Brockman	United States	Founders	71.4	10.0
#19	new	Martin Shkreli	United States	YouTubers	71.3	0.0
#20	new	David Heinemeier Hansson	—	Developers	71.0	15.0
#21	new	Yukihiro Matsumoto	Japan	Developers	70.1	7.3
#22	new	Terence Tao	Australia	Academics	69.8	0.0
#23	new	Vitalik Buterin	—	Developers	69.1	0.2
#24	new	Ward Cunningham	United States	Developers	68.9	10.2
#25	new	Chris Pirillo	United States	Writers	67.4	15.3
#26	new	BY Mister J Sons	United States	Developers	67.4	5.0
#27	new	Brendan Eich	United States	Developers	67.3	0.0
#28	new	Eric S. Raymond	United States	Developers	67.3	17.7
#29	new	Peter Steinberger	Austria	Academics	67.0	0.0
#30	new	Chris Lattner	United States	—	66.7	6.4
#31	new	Jeri Ellsworth	United States	Founders	66.7	1.6
#32	new	Moxie Marlinspike	United States	Founders	66.6	5.2
#33	new	pannenkoek2012	United States	YouTubers	66.6	1.5
#34	new	Molly White	United States	Writers	66.4	10.0
#35	new	Ian J. Goodfellow	United States	Academics	66.3	2.1
#36	new	Rob Pike	Canada	Developers	66.0	0.0
#37	new	Robert Cecil Martin	United States	Scientists	65.5	0.0
#38	new	Jordan Mechner	United States	Developers	65.4	3.3
#39	new	Alyssa Rosenzweig	—	Developers	65.2	25.0
#40	new	Nat Friedman	United States	Developers	65.0	0.0
#41	new	Grant Sanderson	—	YouTubers	65.0	17.5
#42	new	maia arson crimew	Switzerland	Developers	65.0	6.8
#43	new	Ruan Xiaohuan	China	Developers	64.8	3.6
#44	new	Marco Misciagna	Italy	Musicians	64.8	21.8
#45	new	Tom Preston-Werner	United States	Developers	64.8	1.3
#46	new	Ryan Dahl	United States	Developers	64.7	0.0
#47	new	Adrian Zandberg	—	Writers	64.7	9.3
#48	new	Miguel de Icaza	Mexico	Developers	64.6	0.0
#49	new	Jeremy Ashkenas	United States	Developers	64.3	23.5
#50	new	Timnit Gebru	United States	Academics	64.1	10.0
#51	new	Felix Reda	Germany	Politicians	63.6	0.0
#52	new	Junio C Hamano	Japan	Developers	63.4	0.7
#53	new	Arthur Mensch	France	Academics	63.3	0.9
#54	new	François Chollet	France	Developers	63.2	1.5
#55	new	Eugen Rochko	Germany	Developers	63.2	16.1
#56	new	Nicky Case	Canada	Musicians	62.9	4.7
#57	new	David Revoy	France	Artists	62.8	1.0
#58	new	Daniel Stenberg	Sweden	Developers	62.8	0.0
#59	new	JM Jed McCaleb	United States	Founders	62.4	8.8
#60	new	Chris Wanstrath	United States	Founders	62.4	0.0
#61	new	Joshua Bloch	United States	Developers	62.1	10.1
#62	new	Matei Zaharia	—	Scientists	62.0	3.3
#63	new	Cassie Kozyrkov	South Africa	—	61.8	0.5
#64	new	Brad Fitzpatrick	United States	Developers	61.7	0.0
#65	new	Terry Cavanagh	—	Scientists	61.6	4.8
#66	new	Armin Ronacher	Austria	Developers	61.6	0.0
#67	new	Hugo de Jonge	Netherlands	Politicians	61.5	6.0
#68	new	Hadley Wickham	New Zealand	Developers	61.4	0.4
#69	new	NS Noam Shazeer	United States	—	61.0	25.0
#70	new	Greg Egan	Australia	Writers	60.9	0.0
#71	new	EG Erich Gamma	Switzerland	Scientists	60.9	0.0
#72	new	Meredith Whittaker	United States	Academics	60.8	12.3
#73	new	Robert Griesemer	Switzerland	Scientists	60.7	2.4
#74	new	WZ Wojciech Zaremba	—	Academics	60.6	0.1
#75	new	Jay Graber	United States	—	60.6	3.5
#76	new	Herb Sutter	United States	Developers	60.5	1.9
#77	new	JW Josh Wardle	United Kingdom	Artists	60.4	0.0
#78	new	Michael A. Nielsen	Australia	Scientists	60.1	0.0
#79	new	Jean-Baptiste Kempf	France	Scientists	59.5	0.0
#80	new	D. Richard Hipp	United States	Scientists	59.2	7.5
#81	new	Fredrick Brennan	United States	Developers	59.1	0.9
#82	new	Mark Adler	United States	Scientists	59.0	1.6
#83	new	Ian Clarke	—	—	58.5	20.8
#84	new	Joel Spolsky	United States	Developers	58.5	0.0
#85	new	Aravind Srinivas	India	Academics	58.4	0.0
#86	new	Karen Hao	United States	Journalists	58.3	3.8
#87	new	Rudy Rucker	United States	Academics	58.1	0.5
#88	new	Ivan Lanin	Indonesia	Developers	58.0	7.3
#89	new	Poul-Henning Kamp	—	Scientists	58.0	5.3
#90	new	SL Sam Lantinga	United States	Scientists	57.9	12.3
#91	new	Do Kwon	South Korea	—	57.4	0.7
#92	new	BA Brian Acton	United States	Founders	57.3	0.0
#93	new	Suchir Balaji	United States	Academics	57.2	0.0
#94	new	Ray Ozzie	United States	Developers	57.0	3.0
#95	new	Paul Buchheit	United States	Scientists	57.0	0.5
#96	new	Coraline Ada Ehmke	United States	Developers	56.8	0.0
#97	new	Lea Verou	—	Developers	56.8	0.0
#98	new	Spencer Kimball	United States	Scientists	56.8	12.4
#99	new	Roberto Ierusalimschy	Brazil	Writers	56.7	0.0
#100	new	Jake Lodwick	United States	Founders	56.6	0.0

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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