Occupation
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
With 201 biographies, Computer Scientists are the 46th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Handball Players, Models, and Extremists.
Pantheon has 217 people classified as computer scientists born between 1809 and 1995. Of these 217, 144 (66.36%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living computer scientists include Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Stallman, and Donald Knuth. The most famous deceased computer scientists include Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Lotfi A. Zadeh. As of April 2022, 20 new computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Robert C. Martin, Tim Paterson, and Dave Cutler.
Living Computer Scientists
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Tim Berners-Lee
1955 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Richard Stallman
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Donald Knuth
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Linus Torvalds
1969 - Present
HPI: 62.11
Larry Page
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Sergey Brin
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.48
Vint Cerf
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Ray Kurzweil
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Ken Thompson
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Guido van Rossum
1956 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Alan Kay
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Deceased Computer Scientists
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1912 - 1954
HPI: 83.83
Grace Hopper
1906 - 1992
HPI: 73.92
Lotfi A. Zadeh
1921 - 2017
HPI: 65.05
Dennis Ritchie
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Edsger W. Dijkstra
1930 - 2002
HPI: 64.21
Niklaus Wirth
1934 - 2024
HPI: 62.85
George Dantzig
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
John McCarthy
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Edgar F. Codd
1923 - 2003
HPI: 60.90
Dorothy Vaughan
1910 - 2008
HPI: 59.70
Marvin Minsky
1927 - 2016
HPI: 59.31
John Backus
1924 - 2007
HPI: 58.59
Newly Added Computer Scientists (2022)
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Robert C. Martin
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Tim Paterson
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.89
Dave Cutler
1942 - Present
HPI: 42.64
Jean E. Sammet
1928 - 2017
HPI: 42.41
Paul Buchheit
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.88
Andrew Morton
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.49
Yoshua Bengio
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Jon Hall
1950 - Present
HPI: 38.99
Kathleen Booth
1922 - 2022
HPI: 38.71
Douglas Crockford
1955 - Present
HPI: 37.82
Chieko Asakawa
1958 - Present
HPI: 36.84
Rodney Brooks
1954 - Present
HPI: 35.98
Most computer scientists were born in United States (113), United Kingdom (18), and Canada (7). By city, the most common birth places were New York City (21), Boston (4), and Philadelphia (4).The most common death places of computer scientists were United States (48), United Kingdom (5), and Norway (3). By city, these were Stanford, California (4), Pittsburgh (3), and Boston (2).
The earliest biographies classified as computer scientists in Pantheon are Arthur Samuel, Warren Weaver, and Luigi Federico Menabrea. The concentration of computer scientists was largest during the Radio & Film Era, which lasted from 1900 to 1949. Some birth or death locations for earlier computer scientists are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Computer Scientists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Computer Scientists since 1700.
Computer Scientists are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Mathematicians, Physicists, Astronomers, and Chemists.
