The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 4 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 6th most number of Computer Scientists behind France, and Germany.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Russian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sergey Brin (b. 1973)
With an HPI of 58.86, Sergey Brin is the most famous Russian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 86 different languages on wikipedia.
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders and board members. As of November 2024, Brin is the 7th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $153 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes. Brin immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics as well as computer science. After graduation, in September 1993, he enrolled in Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he built a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford, and he discontinued his PhD studies to start up Google in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park.
2. Sergey Lebedev (1902 - 1974)
With an HPI of 51.72, Sergey Lebedev is the 2nd most famous Russian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev (Russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Ле́бедев; 2 November, 1902 – 3 July, 1974) was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
3. Eugene Kaspersky (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 49.29, Eugene Kaspersky is the 3rd most famous Russian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages.
Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare. Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. His interest in IT security began when his work computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989 and he developed a program to remove it. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2024.
4. Vitalik Buterin (b. 1994)
With an HPI of 45.06, Vitalik Buterin is the 4th most famous Russian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin (Russian: Вита́лий Дми́триевич Буте́рин; born 31 January 1994), better known as Vitalik Buterin (Russian: Вита́лик Буте́рин), is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011 and Dark Wallet in 2013 together with Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson In 2015, Buterin deployed the Ethereum blockchain with Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin.
5. Ilya Sutskever (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 35.60, Ilya Sutskever is the 5th most famous Russian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ilya Sutskever (born 8 December 1986) is a Canadian-Israeli-Russian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. Sutskever co-founded and is a former chief scientist at OpenAI. In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman from his position as CEO; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.
People
Pantheon has 5 people classified as Russian computer scientists born between 1902 and 1994. Of these 5, 4 (80.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Russian computer scientists include Sergey Brin, Eugene Kaspersky, and Vitalik Buterin. The most famous deceased Russian computer scientists include Sergey Lebedev. As of April 2024, 1 new Russian computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Ilya Sutskever.
Living Russian Computer Scientists
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Sergey Brin
1973 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Eugene Kaspersky
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Vitalik Buterin
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Ilya Sutskever
1986 - Present
HPI: 35.60
