GitHub Follower Ranking

> snapshot 2026-10-25, nothing earlier to compare with yet

#	User	Followers
1	Linus Torvalds@torvalds 329,369	329,369
2	Andrej@karpathy 227,776	227,776
3	Claude@claude 209,083	209,083
4	Gustavo Guanabara@gustavoguanabara 116,900	116,900
5	Evan You@yyx990803 111,895	111,895
6	dan@gaearon 94,044	94,044
7	Ruan YiFeng@ruanyf 87,900	87,900
8	稚晖@peng-zhihui 87,595	87,595
9	Sindre Sorhus@sindresorhus 85,094	85,094
10	Brad Traversy@bradtraversy 76,676	76,676
11	Jake Wharton@JakeWharton 68,775	68,775
12	Alp ₿📈🚀🌕@IDouble 61,934	61,934
13	Phil Wang@lucidrains 61,686	61,686
14	Hitesh Choudhary@hiteshchoudhary 61,505	61,505
15	Rafaella Ballerini@rafaballerini 60,032	60,032
16	Addy Osmani@addyosmani 54,772	54,772
17	TJ@tj 54,684	54,684
18	Peter Steinberger@steipete 53,396	53,396
19	Matt Pocock@mattpocock 52,146	52,146
20	ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen 49,795	49,795
21	George Hotz@geohot 47,521	47,521
22	Kyle Simpson@getify 45,446	45,446
23	John Mwendwa@JohnMwendwa 45,011	45,011
24	Krish C Naik@krishnaik06 43,318	43,318
25	CodeWithHarry 43,208	43,208
26	Grant Sanderson@3b1b 42,182	42,182
27	Kamran Ahmed@nilbuild 41,335	41,335
28	Sebastian Raschka@rasbt 40,830	40,830
29	Anthony Fu@antfu 40,581	40,581
30	Filipe Deschamps@filipedeschamps 40,580	40,580
31	Miguel Ángel Durán@midudev 39,934	39,934
32	Crypto Michael@michaelliao 38,724	38,724
33	Kunal Kushwaha@kunal-kushwaha 38,365	38,365
34	Brais Moure@mouredev 37,834	37,834
35	Adrian Hajdin - JS Mastery@adrianhajdin 37,542	37,542
36	David J. Malan@dmalan 37,361	37,361
37	Siraj Raval@llSourcell 36,704	36,704
38	Wes Bos@wesbos 36,200	36,200
39	Taylor Otwell@taylorotwell 36,050	36,050
40	Kent C. Dodds@kentcdodds 35,710	35,710
41	PewDiePie@pewdiepie-archdaemon 35,000	35,000
42	Abhishek Veeramalla@iam-veeramalla 34,689	34,689
43	Ryan Dahl@ry 33,580	33,580
44	Diego Fernandes@diego3g 32,710	32,710
45	Shaun@iamshaunjp 32,600	32,600
46	WebDevSimplified 32,462	32,462
47	Sebastián Ramírez@tiangolo 32,427	32,427
48	Salvatore Sanfilippo@antirez 32,380	32,380
49	Paul Irish@paulirish 32,151	32,151
50	Cogito Ergo Sum@standardgalactic 31,135	31,135
51	Christian Deacon@gamemann 30,962	30,962
52	David Heinemeier Hansson@dhh 30,545	30,545
53	Kenneth Reitz@kennethreitz 30,148	30,148
54	Stephen Grider@StephenGrider 29,177	29,177
55	Jonas Schmedtmann@jonasschmedtmann 29,085	29,085
56	Ben Awad@benawad 28,902	28,902
57	Andrej Marinchenko@BEPb 28,311	28,311
58	Elyx@elyxdev 27,634	27,634
59	Jeff Geerling@geerlingguy 27,534	27,534
60	John Washam@jwasham 27,237	27,237
61	Guido van Rossum@gvanrossum 27,220	27,220
62	Bucky Roberts@buckyroberts 26,972	26,972
63	Hadley Wickham@hadley 26,818	26,818
64	Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko 26,508	26,508
65	Programming Hero@ProgrammingHero1 26,257	26,257
66	mrdoob 25,686	25,686
67	Tim Ruscica@techwithtim 25,322	25,322
68	Sarah Drasner@sdras 25,156	25,156
69	Jadi@jadijadi 25,148	25,148
70	Iris Series 鸢尾花书@Visualize-ML 24,971	24,971
71	代码家@daimajia 24,961	24,961
72	Tom Preston-Werner@mojombo 24,946	24,946
73	程序员鱼皮@liyupi 24,907	24,907
74	Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower 24,903	24,903
75	Kirat@hkirat 24,843	24,843
76	Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh 24,841	24,841
77	Chip Huyen@chiphuyen 24,760	24,760
78	The Octocat@octocat 24,750	24,750
79	Donne Martin@donnemartin 24,716	24,716
80	Sebastian Lague@SebLague 24,550	24,550
81	xiaolai@xiaolai 23,999	23,999
82	Keijiro Takahashi@keijiro 23,932	23,932
83	Mark Otto@mdo 23,889	23,889
84	Mu Li@mli 23,888	23,888
85	pliny@elder-plinius 23,702	23,702
86	Alex The Analyst@AlexTheAnalyst 23,617	23,617
87	Tim Pope@tpope 23,463	23,463
88	Mike Bostock@mbostock 23,446	23,446
89	kenji@kenjinote 23,374	23,374
90	Jeff Delaney@codediodeio 23,130	23,130
91	Chris Wanstrath@defunkt 22,910	22,910
92	编程随想@programthink 22,676	22,676
93	Bruno Simon@brunosimon 22,516	22,516
94	Asabeneh@Asabeneh 22,407	22,407
95	Fabio Akita@akitaonrails 22,392	22,392
96	Douglas Crockford@douglascrockford 21,922	21,922
97	云风@cloudwu 21,699	21,699
98	Morvan@MorvanZhou 21,670	21,670
99	lllyasviel 21,613	21,613
100	Jackson Tian@JacksonTian 21,347	21,347