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The Most Famous

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Ireland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 28th most number of Computer Scientists behind Venezuela and Tunisia.

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

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1. Kathleen Antonelli (1921 - 2006)

With an HPI of 45.90, Kathleen Antonelli is the most famous Irish Computer Scientist.  Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Kathleen Rita Antonelli (née McNulty; formerly Mauchly; 12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers. The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Frances Spence, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jean Bartik.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as computer scientists born between 1921 and 1921. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased computer scientists include Kathleen Antonelli.

Deceased Computer Scientists

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