Top HuggingFace Users by Followers | Generated by AI

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Question: Who are the top 10 most followed / highest-impact individuals on Hugging Face?Answer:

HuggingFace doesn’t publish a public “top followers” leaderboard in a clean, official way — but there’s a community-built space that tracks it. Based on known data and community tracking, here are the top individuals by followers (as of early-to-mid 2025), separated into HF staff and community contributors since those are very different categories:

Top HF Staff / Insiders (by followers)

Handle Person Role ~Followers
thomwolf Thomas Wolf Co-founder / CSO of HF ~30,000+
pcuenq Pedro Cuenca Research Engineer, HF ~20,000+
merve Merve Noyan Developer Advocate, HF ~15,000+
osanseviero Omar Sanseviero Chief of Staff, HF ~12,000+
clem Clément Delangue CEO of HF ~10,000+

Thomas Wolf is likely the single most-followed individual user — he’s the face of HF’s technical identity, co-authored the original Transformers library paper, and has been at HF from the start.

Top Community Contributors (non-HF staff)

Handle Person Known For ~Followers
teknium Nathan Cooper OpenHermes, Hermes series, NousResearch ~7,300
TheBloke Tom Jobbins Quantized model uploads (GGUF, GPTQ) ~6,000+
bartowski — GGUF quants, LM Studio ~5,000+
mradermacher — Quantized LLM variants ~4,000+
Weyaxi — Community leaderboards, tooling ~3,000+

Key Insight

TheBloke became famous for quantized model versions — his most successful was phi-2-GGUF, though he hasn’t published models since 2024. Similarly, mradermacher is primarily downloaded for quantized LLMs and is still active in 2025.

For raw download impact (which arguably matters more than followers), the 50 most downloaded entities account for over 80% of total Hub downloads — and that list is dominated by orgs like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Sentence-Transformers, not individuals.

The real power users on HuggingFace by followers are HF employees + a small tier of community quantizers and fine-tuners like Teknium. Teknium’s 7,300 followers is legitimately elite for a community (non-staff) individual.

Note: The live leaderboard is at huggingface.co/spaces/Weyaxi/followers-leaderboard — worth bookmarking if you want real-time data.

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