The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Finland
This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 20th most number of Computer Scientists behind China and Azerbaijan.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Finnish Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Linus Torvalds (1969 - )
With an HPI of 62.11, Linus Torvalds is the most famous Finnish Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 114 different languages on wikipedia.
Linus Benedict Torvalds ( LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel." He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as computer scientists born between 1969 and 1969. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living computer scientists include Linus Torvalds.
