

The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 2 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 18th most number of Computer Scientists behind China and Italy.
Top 2 Computer Scientists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Danish Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Peter Naur
1928 - 2016
HPI 64.1841 langsDanish computer scientist (1928–2016)
- #2

David Heinemeier Hansson
b. 1979
HPI 40.8318 langsProgrammer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
