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Andy Hertzfeld

1953 - Today

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Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, Hertzfeld has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andy Hertzfeld has received more than 1,317,144 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Andy Hertzfeld is the 157th most popular computer scientist (up from 163rd in 2019), the 9,482nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,452nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 42.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 157 out of 201. Before him are Christos Papadimitriou, Dave Cutler, Grady Booch, Sudha Murty, Jean E. Sammet, and Robert Tappan Morris. After him are Paul Graham, Peter Shor, Subhash Kak, Hal Abelson, Alan Cox, and Paul Buchheit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 420. Before him are Sally Menke, Manouchehr Mottaki, Nikolai Budarin, Arta Dade, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and Michelle Hurst. After him are Hana Laszlo, Kevin Nealon, Ella Pamfilova, Paweł Janas, Deborah Raffin, and Viktor Kozin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 9,482 out of 18,182. Before him are Johnnie Ray (1927), Omarosa Manigault Newman (1974), Leroy Carr (1905), John Bell (1796), Kathy Hilton (1959), and Aaron Swartz (1986). After him are Robert Bacher (1905), Linda Lavin (1937), Arabian Prince (1965), Kenny Garrett (1960), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), and Yancy Butler (1970).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Andy Hertzfeld ranks 93. Before him are Bruce Schneier (1963), Brewster Kahle (1960), Dave Cutler (1942), Grady Booch (1955), Jean E. Sammet (1928), and Robert Tappan Morris (1965). After him are Peter Shor (1959), Paul Buchheit (1977), Ralph Merkle (1952), E. Allen Emerson (1954), Jon Hall (1950), and Phil Katz (1962).

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