The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 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 2
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 (1976 - )
With an HPI of 47.64, Jan Koum is the most famous Ukrainian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born Yan Borysovych Kum, Ukrainian: Ян Борисович Кум, on 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 46.18, Abraham Lempel is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 17 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.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as computer scientists born between 1936 and 1976. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living computer scientists include Jan Koum. The most famous deceased computer scientists include Abraham Lempel.
