Bill Gates
Post-Peak📈 2025 Monthly Wikipedia Views
About Bill Gates
Bill Gates, an active businessperson born in 1955, is ranked #765 in historical importance by MIT's Pantheon project primarily for co-founding Microsoft. His key contribution was pioneering the personal computer software industry, bundling operating systems and applications that drove the PC revolution and fundamentally reshaped global commerce and personal computing access worldwide.
Despite this significant impact, Gates shows a considerable internet attention gap, receiving a +10x overattention rating relative to his historical rank. In 2025, he accumulated 3.5 million Wikipedia views, which is vastly more than the 61,000 views received by Evangelista Torricelli, a figure ranked nearly 300 places higher in historical importance (#495). This indicates that his contemporary relevance in technology and philanthropy far outweighs the search traffic given to many figures considered more crucial to the broader historical narrative.
This overattention, however, appears to be waning slightly, as his annualized Wikipedia views show a -15.3% year-over-year change, and his 2025 momentum dropped by 31% between Q1 and Q3.