The Most Famous

Computer Scientists from Japan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 4 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 8th most number of Computer Scientists behind Russia and Israel.

Top 4 Japanese Computer Scientists

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

  1. #1
    Photo of Satoshi Nakamoto

    Satoshi Nakamoto

    b. 1975

    HPI 78.0454 langs

    Designer and developer of bitcoin

  2. #2
    Photo of Ken Kutaragi

    Ken Kutaragi

    b. 1950

    HPI 64.4624 langs

    Japanese engineering technologist and businessman

  3. #3
    Photo of Yukihiro Matsumoto

    Yukihiro Matsumoto

    b. 1965

    HPI 55.0931 langs

    Japanese computer scientist (born 1965)

  4. #4
    Photo of Chieko Asakawa

    Chieko Asakawa

    b. 1958

    HPI 48.5115 langs

    Japanese information engineer (1958-)

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