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Bassel Khartabil

1981 - 2015

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Bassel Khartabil (22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015; Arabic: باسل خرطبيل), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian-Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bassel Khartabil has received more than 262,727 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Bassel Khartabil is the 222nd most popular computer scientist (down from 181st in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Syria (down from 168th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Computer Scientist.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bassel Khartabil ranks 222 out of 245. Before him are Dariusz Jemielniak, Phil Katz, Bram Cohen, Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, and Ilya Sutskever. After him are Mark Overmars, Shawn Fanning, Gottfrid Svartholm, Ninoslav Marina, Jenova Chen, and Mihalis Yannakakis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Bassel Khartabil ranks 607. Before him are Benoît Cheyrou, Randy de Puniet, Aline Lahoud, Antonis Fotsis, Felix Zwayer, and Diego Barreto. After him are Julie Zenatti, Najoua Belyzel, Sun Tiantian, Emily Rose, Ben Schwartz, and Joan Cornellà. Among people deceased in 2015, Bassel Khartabil ranks 560. Before him are Richard Bakalyan, Ronnie Carroll, Richard Schweiker, Charles Kennedy, Jim Wright, and Howard Davis Jr.. After him are Dean Potter, Chenjerai Hove, Alexis Vastine, Junior Malanda, Richard Meade, and Olene Walker.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 196 out of 210. Before him are Mahmoud Dahoud (1996), Ignatius Aphrem II (1965), Naser Khader (1963), Omar Kharbin (1994), Dima Khatib (1971), and Maxie Parks (1951). After him are Firas Al-Khatib (1983), Sanharib Malki (1984), Rojda Felat (1980), Jwan Yosef (1984), Hevrin Khalaf (1984), and Zain Al Rafeea (2004).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Syria

Among computer scientists born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 1. 

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