Free Software Celebrities according to Google

1. Linus Torvalds, 6020000, Linux (had 12400000 hits, max 27400000).
2. Larry Wall, 1920000, Perl (was #3 with 3000000 hits, max 6780000).
3. Alan Cox, 1710000, Linux (was #2 with 3750000 hits, max 5110000).
4. Richard Stallman, 1430000, GNU (had 1990000 hits, max 3940000).
5. Guido van Rossum, 604000, Python (had 883000 hits, max 962000).
6. Rasmus Lerdorf, 503000, PHP (had 672000 hits, max 697000).
7. Jens Axboe, 497000, Linux (was #8 with 502000 hits, max 2330000).
8. Miguel de Icaza, 423000, Gnome (was #10 with 444000 hits, max 555000).
9. Bruce Perens, 351000, Debian (was #7 with 534000 hits, max 716000).
10. Eric S. Raymond, 340000, Open Source (was #11 with 435000 hits, max 508000).
11. Wietse Venema, 313000, Postfix (was #9 with 458000 hits, max 1130000).
12. Theo de Raadt, 306000, OpenBSD (had 404000 hits, max 516000).
13. Richard M. Stallman, 293000, GNU (had 362000 hits, max 828000).
14. Frank Damgaard, 280000, Linux (was #17 with 250000 hits, max 314000).
15. Tom Christiansen, 279000, Perl (was #14 with 337000 hits, max 395000).
16. Peter Toft, 252000, Linux (was #23 with 225000 hits, max 323000).
17. Randal L. Schwartz, 247000, Perl (was #15 with 280000 hits, max 305000).
18. Ian Jackson, 236000, Debian (was #16 with 277000 hits, max 384000).
19. Paul Mackerras, 233000, Linux (was #18 with 242000 hits, max 303000).
20. Ian Murdock, 220000, Debian (was #22 with 227000 hits, max 334000).
21. Jeremy Allison, 200000, Samba (had 230000 hits, max 462000).
22. Michael K. Johnson, 196000, Linux (was #24 with 221000 hits, max 242000).
23. Werner Koch, 192000, GnuPG (was #20 with 236000 hits, max 294000).
24. Poul Henning Kamp, 179000, FreeBSD (was #27 with 194000 hits, max 467000).
25. Mads Bondo Dydensborg, 177000, Linux (was #28 with 173000 hits, max 226000).
26. Andrew Tridgell, 177000, Samba (had 199000 hits, max 459000).
27. Brian Behlendorf, 175000, Apache (was #25 with 218000 hits, max 527000).
28. Jes Sorensen, 163000, Linux (was #29 with 168000 hits, max 205000).
29. Matt Welsh, 156000, Linux (was #30 with 165000 hits, max 185000).
30. Joerg Schilling, 156000, cdrecord (was #31 with 161000 hits, max 192000).
31. Donald Knuth, 138000, TeX (was #32 with 158000 hits, max 162000).
32. Roland Mcgrath, 135000, glibc (was #36 with 136000 hits, max 208000).
33. Matthias Ettrich, 124000, KDE (was #34 with 142000 hits, max 261000).
34. Anton Blanchard, 124000, Linux (was #37 with 134000 hits, max 196000).
35. Donald E. Knuth, 124000, TeX (had 138000 hits, max 141000).
36. Lars Wirzenius, 122000, Linux (was #38 with 129000 hits, max 161000).
37. Eric Allman, 114000, Sendmail (was #39 with 125000 hits, max 150000).

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• Leslie Lamport, 105000, LaTeX (had 115000 hits, max 128000).
• Roy Fielding, 105000, Apache (was #19 with 242000 hits, max 274000).
• Greg Lehey, 94100, FreeBSD (had 104000 hits, max 142000).
• Jörg Schilling, 93800, cdrecord (had 95900 hits, max 106000).
• Jordan K. Hubbard, 92200, FreeBSD (had 92000 hits, max 121000).
• Henrik Storner, 81000, Linux (had 82300 hits, max 102000).
• Johan Vromans, 80200, Perl (had 86300 hits, max 103000).
• Bob Young, 79900, Red Hat (had 89200 hits, max 225000).
• Paul Vixie, 79200, bind (had 84100 hits, max 110000).
• Henrik Størner, 78500, Linux (had 77100 hits, max 98800).
• John Ousterhout, 75400, TCL (had 84800 hits, max 127000).
• Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 74400, Gnus (had 79200 hits, max 163000).
• Dean Gaudet, 64900, Apache (was #33 with 146000 hits, max 153000).
• Roy T. Fielding, 61600, User (had 73200 hits, max 74800).
• Jordan Hubbard, 54700, FreeBSD (had 55800 hits, max 67700).
• Marc Slemko, 54600, Apache (had 122000 hits, max 123000).
• Ryan Bloom, 50900, Apache (had 124000 hits, max 137000).
• Jim Blandy, 49800, Guile (had 51300 hits, max 69000).
• Stephen Rothwell, 39700, APM (had 39400 hits, max 61600).
• Wes Hardaker, 39700, SNMP (had 40100 hits, max 42900).
• Bill Stoddard, 39000, Apache (had 91800 hits, max 98000).
• Charles Hannum, 37600, NetBSD (had 41600 hits, max 101000).
• Dan Bernstein, 34100, qmail (had 37000 hits, max 47400).
• Daniel Laliberte, 33200, Hypernews (had 39700 hits, max 51900).
• Jim Winstead, 32900, Apache (had 40200 hits, max 128000).
• Per Abrahamsen, 31500, Emacs (had 31600 hits, max 69200).
• Don Knuth, 30000, TeX (had 33000 hits, max 35500).
• Michael Elkins, 24100, mutt (had 28300 hits, max 31200).
• Paul Kinnucan, 19300, JDE (had 17000 hits, max 32700).
• Jamie Zawinski, 18800, XEmacs (had 18500 hits, max 33500).
• Hrvoje Niksic, 14200, Emacs (had 15000 hits, max 53500).
• Julian Seward, 10200, ghc (had 10900 hits, max 30900).
• Rob van der Putten, 966, Linux (had 640 hits, max 9890).
• Daniel J. Bernstein, 922, qmail (had 930 hits, max 10700).
• Steve Baur, 690, XEmacs (had 680 hits, max 11600).
• Dan J. Bernstein, 661, qmail (had 637 hits, max 12300).
• Steven L. Baur, 336, XEmacs (had 326 hits, max 9660).
• Jes Sørensen, 216, Linux (had 211 hits, max 713).

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