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Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++

1950 - today

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His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2024). Bjarne Stroustrup is the 50th most popular engineer (up from 55th in 2024), the 132nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 126th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Engineer.

Bjarne Stroustrup is most famous for being the creator of the C++ programming language.

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Bjarne Stroustrup's biography appears in 55 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 97% of all Engineers.

#2 / 58

Bjarne Stroustrup ranks #2 among 58 notable people born in Aarhus, Denmark, inside the top 4% by HPI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 58. Before him are Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Dolan, Marianne Bachmeier, Chantal Akerman, Roza Otunbayeva, and Sônia Braga. After him are Julie Walters, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Lakshmi Mittal, Tsugumi Ohba, Shoko Hamada, and Christina Onassis.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 132 out of 1,230. Before him are Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), Prince George of Denmark (1653), Harald Bohr (1887), Sveinn Björnsson (1881), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852). After him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), and Giancarlo Esposito (1958).

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