1981 - 2015
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. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.Khartabil was born in Damascus and raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bassel Khartabil has received more than 244,878 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Bassel Khartabil is the 181st most popular computer scientist (down from 175th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Syria (down from 149th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, Bassel Khartabil ranks 181 out of 201. Before him are Jon Hall, Geir Ivarsøy, Kathleen Booth, Erich Gamma, Theo de Raadt, and Phil Katz. After him are Douglas Crockford, Luis von Ahn, Sophie Wilson, Hans Reiser, Werner Koch, and Chieko Asakawa.
1950 - Present
HPI: 38.99
Rank: 175
1957 - 2006
HPI: 38.86
Rank: 176
1922 - 2022
HPI: 38.71
Rank: 177
1961 - Present
HPI: 38.55
Rank: 178
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.15
Rank: 179
1962 - 2000
HPI: 38.05
Rank: 180
1981 - 2015
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 181
1955 - Present
HPI: 37.82
Rank: 182
1978 - Present
HPI: 37.49
Rank: 183
1957 - Present
HPI: 37.37
Rank: 184
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.32
Rank: 185
1961 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 186
1958 - Present
HPI: 36.84
Rank: 187
Among people born in 1981, Bassel Khartabil ranks 307. Before him are Antonio López, Brandon Flowers, José Ron, Siarhei Rutenka, Alice Rohrwacher, and Sara Tommasi. After him are Sonya Yoncheva, Seth Gabel, Dawn Olivieri, Katharine Isabelle, Jarkko Nieminen, and Gen Hoshino. Among people deceased in 2015, Bassel Khartabil ranks 454. Before him are Andraé Crouch, Maria Radner, Amanda Peterson, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Dean Potter, and Jonathan Crombie. After him are Wilfred Agbonavbare, Oles Buzina, Walter Browne, Charles Correa, Wolfram Wuttke, and Mikhail Burtsev.
1981 - Present
HPI: 38.05
Rank: 301
1981 - Present
HPI: 38.04
Rank: 302
1981 - Present
HPI: 38.01
Rank: 303
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.98
Rank: 304
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 305
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 306
1981 - 2015
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 307
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.90
Rank: 308
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.90
Rank: 309
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.88
Rank: 310
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.86
Rank: 311
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.82
Rank: 312
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.78
Rank: 313
1942 - 2015
HPI: 38.84
Rank: 448
1981 - 2015
HPI: 38.48
Rank: 449
1971 - 2015
HPI: 38.32
Rank: 450
1972 - 2015
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 451
1972 - 2015
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 452
1966 - 2015
HPI: 38.04
Rank: 453
1981 - 2015
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 454
1966 - 2015
HPI: 37.80
Rank: 455
1969 - 2015
HPI: 37.80
Rank: 456
1949 - 2015
HPI: 37.68
Rank: 457
1930 - 2015
HPI: 37.65
Rank: 458
1961 - 2015
HPI: 37.63
Rank: 459
1956 - 2015
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 460
Among people born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 168 out of 181. Before him are Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji (1954), Randa Kassis (1970), Ghada Shouaa (1972), Yasser Seirawan (1960), Ignatius Aphrem II (1965), and Mahmoud Dahoud (1996). After him are Razan Zaitouneh (1977), Sanharib Malki (1984), Yusra Mardini (1998), Omar Kharbin (1994), Firas Al-Khatib (1983), and Hevrin Khalaf (1984).
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.95
Rank: 162
1970 - Present
HPI: 40.79
Rank: 163
1972 - Present
HPI: 40.68
Rank: 164
1960 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 165
1965 - Present
HPI: 38.62
Rank: 166
1996 - Present
HPI: 38.31
Rank: 167
1981 - 2015
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 168
1977 - Present
HPI: 36.02
Rank: 169
1984 - Present
HPI: 34.27
Rank: 170
1998 - Present
HPI: 33.39
Rank: 171
1994 - Present
HPI: 32.86
Rank: 172
1983 - Present
HPI: 30.81
Rank: 173
1984 - 2019
HPI: 30.37
Rank: 174
Among computer scientists born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 1.