The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 29th most number of Computer Scientists behind Tunisia, and Ireland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Audrey Tang (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 42.52, Audrey Tang is the most famous Taiwanese Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Audrey Tang (Chinese: 唐鳳; pinyin: Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981) is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet. Tang has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online." Tang is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities, and is the core member of g0v.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Taiwanese computer scientists born between 1981 and 1981. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese computer scientists include Audrey Tang.
