GAME DESIGNER

Alexey Pajitnov

1956 - Today

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Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris. In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexey Pajitnov has received more than 2,476,493 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexey Pajitnov is the 3rd most popular game designer (up from 10th in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Russia (up from 779th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Game Designer.

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  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 3 out of 77Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, and Hideo Kojima. After him are Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, and Klaus Teuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 43Before him are Zbigniew Boniek, Kim Cattrall, Michael Connelly, Imelda Staunton, Eric Roberts, and Marc Dutroux. After him are Danny Boyle, Larry Bird, Steve Harris, Min Aung Hlaing, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Guido van Rossum.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 417 out of 3,761Before him are Yakov Yurovsky (1878), Valentin Ivanov (1934), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Viktor Belenko (1947), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), and Ivan Serov (1905). After him are Lovis Corinth (1858), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Lila Kedrova (1918), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), and Sophia Tolstaya (1844).

Among GAME DESIGNERS In Russia

Among game designers born in Russia, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 1