



The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Japan
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

Satoshi Nakamoto
b. 1975
HPI 78.0454 langsDesigner and developer of bitcoin
- #2

Ken Kutaragi
b. 1950
HPI 64.4624 langsJapanese engineering technologist and businessman
- #3

Yukihiro Matsumoto
b. 1965
HPI 55.0931 langsJapanese computer scientist (born 1965)
- #4

Chieko Asakawa
b. 1958
HPI 48.5115 langsJapanese information engineer (1958-)
