ENGINEERS from Denmark

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Engineers of all time. This list of famous Danish Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Bjarne Stroustrup (b. 1950)

With an HPI of 60.66, Bjarne Stroustrup is the most famous Danish Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 54 different languages on wikipedia.

Bjarne Stroustrup (; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia.

2. Valdemar Poulsen (1869 - 1942)

With an HPI of 57.28, Valdemar Poulsen is the 2nd most famous Danish Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869 – 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898. He also made significant contributions to early radio technology, including the first continuous wave radio transmitter, the Poulsen arc, which was used for a majority of the earliest audio radio transmissions, before being supplanted by the development of vacuum-tube transmitters.