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List of Best Programmers

This is a ranking list of programmers. Only top dozen Best Programmers, according to different criteria, are presented. The ranking is in particular based on the number of occurences of each programmer in web pages, news, pictures and people votes in corresponding context.

Overall popularity

Rank	Score	Item
1.	2217	Bill Gates
2.	1120	Linus Torvalds
3.	703	Roger Moore
4.	662	Jerry Yang
5.	620	Richard Stallman
6.	477	Matthew Smith
7.	438	John Walker
8.	435	Paul Allen
9.	387	George Williams
10.	295	Marc Andreessen
11.	272	Miguel de Icaza
12.	191	Andi Gutmans

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Popularity on the Web

Score		Item
95908		Bill Gates
39299		Linus Torvalds
34672		Eric Raymond
23416		John McCarthy
23182		Richard Stallman
17171		Peter Norton
16955		Martin Fowler
16644		Paul Graham
11096		Larry Wall
8703		Henry Spencer
8308		Tim Berners-Lee
7786		Alan Kay

Popularity in the news

Score		Item
297		Jerry Yang
204		Bill Gates
78		Roger Moore
48		Linus Torvalds
43		Andi Gutmans
34		Paul Allen
31		John Walker
24		Doug Bell
23		Matthew Smith
14		George Williams
13		James Holmes
12		Matt Dillon

Popularity in pictures

Score		Item
4803		Bill Gates
270		Roger Moore
205		John Walker
136		Paul Allen
106		Linus Torvalds
100		Matt Dillon
91		Richard Stallman
88		Grace Hopper
71		Paul Graham
66		George Williams
64		James Duncan Davidson
64		Jerry Yang