The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Germany
This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 8 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 4th most number of Computer Scientists behind United Kingdom and Canada.
Top 8 German Computer Scientists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Germans Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Germans Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Joseph Weizenbaum
1923 - 2008
HPI 62.5228 langsGerman American computer scientist
- #2
Ian Murdock
1973 - 2015
HPI 60.3340 langsAmerican computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
- #3
Rudolf Bayer
b. 1939
HPI 55.0015 langsGerman computer scientist
- #4
Werner Koch
b. 1961
HPI 46.2015 langsGerman free software developer
- #5
Tron
1972 - 1998
HPI 45.0117 langsGerman hacker and phreaker (1972–1998)
- #6
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
b. 1978
HPI 44.8418 langsGerman activist
- #7
Denny Vrandečić
b. 1978
HPI 41.1716 langsCroatian computer scientist
- #8
Coraline Ada Ehmke
b. 2000
HPI 26.8216 langssoftware developer and open source community activist
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.
