



The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Russia
Trending Computer Scientists from Russia This Week
The top 10 Computer Scientists from Russia trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Sergey Brin
b. 1973
Trending in English (#123) and Russian (#261) Wikipedia (15,232 views, on Apr 27).
This page contains a list of the greatest Russians Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 5 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 6th most number of Computer Scientists behind Germany and France.
Top 5 Russian Computer Scientists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russians Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Russians 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
HPI 65.5587 langsCo-Founder of Google
- #2

Eugene Kaspersky
b. 1965
HPI 56.8033 langsRussian specialist in the information security field
- #3

Sergey Lebedev
1902 - 1974
HPI 56.5921 langsSoviet computer scientist (1902–1974)
- #4

Vitalik Buterin
b. 1994
HPI 55.1734 langsRussian-Canadian programmer and writer
- #5

Ilya Sutskever
b. 1986
HPI 49.2920 langsAI researcher
