COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Edwin Catmull

1945 - Today

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Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Catmull has received more than 1,108,164 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Edwin Catmull is the 53rd most popular computer scientist (down from 52nd in 2019), the 3,391st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,538th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 53.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Edwin Catmull ranks 53 out of 245. Before him are James Gosling, Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, and Geoffrey Hinton. After him are Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, and James H. Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Edwin Catmull ranks 219. Before him are Bianca Jagger, Leonid Popov, Steve Gadd, Richard Long, John Leslie, and Wilfried Van Moer. After him are Eric Woolfson, Ferdi Tayfur, Barbara Kruger, Eric Roth, Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Francesca Annis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Catmull ranks 3,391 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglas Tompkins (1943), Chris Tucker (1971), Ma Rainey (1886), George Pullman (1831), Tom Hulce (1953), and Philip Kaufman (1936). After him are Harlan Ellison (1934), Alex Haley (1921), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), Marlee Matlin (1965), Paul Castellano (1915), and Seth Rollins (1986).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Edwin Catmull ranks 32. Before him are Charles Bachman (1924), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), John Cocke (1925), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Fred Brooks (1931), and Leslie Lamport (1941). After him are Vernor Vinge (1944), Don Norman (1935), Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), Ron Rivest (1947), and Jay Wright Forrester (1918).

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