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Audrey Tang

1981 - Today

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Audrey Tang (Chinese: 唐鳳; pinyin: Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981) is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Audrey Tang has received more than 801,431 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Audrey Tang is the 178th most popular computer scientist (down from 134th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Computer Scientist.

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  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Audrey Tang ranks 178 out of 245. Before her are Evan Williams, Ralph Merkle, Dave Cutler, Alan Cooper, Peter Shor, and Yoshua Bengio. After her are Henriette Avram, Luis von Ahn, Sugata Mitra, Edward F. Moore, Noga Alon, and Andrew Morton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Audrey Tang ranks 210. Before her are Genevieve Cortese, Charlotte Riley, Natalie Glebova, Lee Chun-soo, Alou Diarra, and Stephanie Beatriz. After her are Linda Maria Baros, Émilie Dequenne, Sung Yu-ri, Alice Rohrwacher, Josh Gad, and Dejan Damjanović.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Audrey Tang ranks 54 out of 116. Before her are Justin Yifu Lin (1952), Christina Chang (1971), Jerry Yan (1977), Collin Chou (1967), Hsieh Su-wei (1986), and Richie Jen (1966). After her are A-Mei (1972), Barbie Hsu (1976), Tsai Chih-chung (1948), Godfrey Gao (1984), Chou Tzu-yu (1999), and Sean Chen (1949).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Taiwan

Among computer scientists born in Taiwan, Audrey Tang ranks 1. 

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