The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 2 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 15th most number of Computer Scientists behind Switzerland, and Sweden.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jan Koum (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 51.30, Jan Koum is the most famous Ukrainian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Jan Borysovych Koum (born February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$15.2 billion as of October 2023, making him one of the richest people in the world. Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion.
2. Abraham Lempel (1936 - 2023)
With an HPI of 50.37, Abraham Lempel is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל; 10 February 1936 – 4 February 2023) was an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.
3. Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001)
With an HPI of 48.48, Kateryna Yushchenko is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Катерина Логвинівна Ющенко, Russian: Екатерина Логвиновна Ющенко; 8 December 1919 – 15 August 2001) was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science. She developed one of the world's first high-level languages with indirect address in programming (Pointers are analogous to this addressing), called the Address programming language. Over the period of her academic career, Yushchenko supervised 47 Ph.D. students. Further professional achievements include Yushchenko being awarded two USSR State Prizes, The USSR Council of Ministers Prize, The Academician Glushkov Prize, and The Order of Princess Olga. Yushchenko was the first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in programming.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Ukrainian computer scientists born between 1919 and 1976. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ukrainian computer scientists include Jan Koum. The most famous deceased Ukrainian computer scientists include Abraham Lempel, and Kateryna Yushchenko. As of April 2024, 1 new Ukrainian computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Kateryna Yushchenko.
