Bjarne Stroustrup
b. 1950
HPI 67.7255 languages
Bjarne Stroustrup is most famous for being the creator of the C++ programming language.
The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Denmark
3 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 269 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 3 Danish 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 #2 
Peter Naur
1928 - 2016
HPI 64.1841 languagesDanish computer scientist (1928–2016)
#3 
David Heinemeier Hansson
b. 1979
HPI 40.8318 languagesProgrammer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
Overlapping Lives
Which Computer Scientists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Computer Scientists since 1700.
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