Computer Scientists from France

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Frenchs Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Frenchs Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

1. #1

   

   Luigi Federico Menabrea

   1809 - 1896

   HPI 63.6232 langs

   Italian politician, scientist, and general (1809–1896)

2. #2

   

   Pierre Bézier

   1910 - 1999

   HPI 61.5123 langs

   Mathematician

3. #3

   

   Yann LeCun

   b. 1960

   HPI 61.3136 langs

   French computer scientist (born 1960)

4. #4

   

   Jacques Vallée

   b. 1939

   HPI 57.3521 langs

   Computer Scientist, UFO researcher

5. #5

   

   Bertrand Meyer

   b. 1950

   HPI 54.1518 langs

   French computer scientist

6. #6

   

   Yoshua Bengio

   b. 1964

   HPI 53.0125 langs

   Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)

7. #7

   

   Fabrice Bellard

   b. 1972

   HPI 40.9816 langs

   Fabrice Bellard is a French computer scientist best known for creating the QEMU open-source emulator and virtualizer, as well as for...Read moreShow less

   Fabrice Bellard is a French computer scientist best known for creating the QEMU open-source emulator and virtualizer, as well as for developing the Tiny C Compiler (TCC). He has also made significant contributions to various projects in the fields of programming and computer architecture.