COMPUTER SCIENTIST

David Heinemeier Hansson

1979 - Today

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David Heinemeier Hansson, also known as DHH, is a Danish software engineer, programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and racing driver. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, a web framework written in Ruby. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Heinemeier Hansson has received more than 815,964 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). David Heinemeier Hansson is the 233rd most popular computer scientist (down from 210th in 2019), the 863rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 766th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Computer Scientist.

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  • 32.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, David Heinemeier Hansson ranks 233 out of 245. Before him are Jenova Chen, Mihalis Yannakakis, Lex Fridman, Danny Hillis, Jon Lech Johansen, and Theodore Ts'o. After him are Katie Bouman, Larry Ewing, Denny Vrandečić, David Karp, John Resig, and Dries Buytaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, David Heinemeier Hansson ranks 848. Before him are Nate Parker, Zhao Junzhe, Michal Mertiňák, Nikolče Noveski, Michael Neumayer, and Luis Ernesto Michel. After him are Dario Dainelli, Emiliano Bonazzoli, Sandy Casar, Karim Essediri, David Zabriskie, and Edwige Lawson-Wade.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, David Heinemeier Hansson ranks 863 out of 1,032. Before him are Christian Gytkjær (1990), Joachim B. Olsen (1977), Nicklas Pedersen (1987), Oh Land (1985), Frederik Sørensen (1992), and Lise Rønne (1978). After him are Jesper Nøddesbo (1980), Peter Løvenkrands (1980), Christian Nørgaard (1994), Tobias Mikkelsen (1986), Oliver Christensen (1999), and Alexander Scholz (1992).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Denmark

Among computer scientists born in Denmark, David Heinemeier Hansson ranks 2. Before him are Peter Naur (1928).

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