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Bob Kahn

American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)

1938 - today

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His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Kahn is the 41st most popular inventor (up from 150th in 2024), the 488th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,102nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Inventor.

Bob Kahn is most famous for his work with Vint Cerf on the TCP/IP protocol.

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Bob Kahn climbed 15,269 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #19,934 to #4,665.

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Bob Kahn ranks #9 among 501 notable people born in Brooklyn, United States, inside the top 2% by HPI.

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Among Inventors

Among inventors, Bob Kahn ranks 41 out of 433. Before him are John Herschel, Antonio Meucci, Igor Sikorsky, László Bíró, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Frank Whittle. After him are Ismail al-Jazari, Adolphe Sax, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Robert Fulton, and Steve Wozniak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Bob Kahn ranks 24. Before him are Alberto Fujimori, Albert Fert, Klaus Schwab, Joe Dassin, Luis Aragonés, and J. J. Cale. After him are Tomas Lindahl, Giuliano Gemma, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Paul Verhoeven, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Mireille Darc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Kahn ranks 488 out of 23,232. Before him are Paul Samuelson (1915), J. J. Cale (1938), Clifford Shull (1915), John Bardeen (1908), Susan Sontag (1933), and Chuck Berry (1926). After him are Stevie Wonder (1950), Faye Dunaway (1941), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), John Saxon (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), and Jefferson Davis (1808).

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Among Inventors In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Bob Kahn ranks 8. Before him are Henry Ford (1863), Samuel Morse (1791), Eli Whitney (1765), Lee de Forest (1873), Jimmy Wales (1966), and Samuel Colt (1814). After him are Herman Hollerith (1860), Robert Fulton (1765), Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), Douglas Engelbart (1925), and Hiram Maxim (1840).

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