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 17th most number of Computer Scientists behind Ukraine, and Italy.
Top 2
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)
With an HPI of 58.01, Peter Naur is the most famous Danish Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 40 different languages on wikipedia.
Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.
2. David Heinemeier Hansson (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 32.00, David Heinemeier Hansson is the 2nd most famous Danish Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
David Heinemeier Hansson, also known as DHH, is a Danish software engineer, programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and racing driver. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, a web framework written in Ruby. He is also a partner and chief technology officer at the web-based software development firm 37signals. Hansson co-wrote Agile Web Development with Rails with Dave Thomas in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series. He also co-wrote Getting Real, Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work with Jason Fried.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Danish computer scientists born between 1928 and 1979. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Danish computer scientists include David Heinemeier Hansson. The most famous deceased Danish computer scientists include Peter Naur.
