The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 39th most number of Computer Scientists behind Syria, and North Macedonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arfa Karim (1995 - 2012)
With an HPI of 33.22, Arfa Karim is the most famous Pakistani Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع کریم رندھاوا, Punjabi: ارفع کریم رندھاوا; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. She received Pakistan's highest literary award, the Presidential Pride of Performance from General Pervez Musharraf in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, is named in her honour. At the age of 10, Arfa was invited by Bill Gates to visit Microsoft's headquarters in the United States. She died in 2012, aged 16, from a cardiac arrest.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Pakistani computer scientists born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Pakistani computer scientists include Arfa Karim.
