The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 32nd most number of Computer Scientists behind Kazakhstan, and Hungary.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous South African Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Theo de Raadt (b. 1968)
With an HPI of 39.08, Theo de Raadt is the most famous South African Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Theo de Raadt (; Dutch: [ˈteː.joː dəˈraːt]; born May 19, 1968) is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as South African computer scientists born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South African computer scientists include Theo de Raadt.
