1914 - 2005
George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and for his other work with linear programming. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Dantzig has received more than 1,729,107 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). George Dantzig is the 10th most popular computer scientist (up from 17th in 2019), the 987th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,464th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, George Dantzig ranks 10 out of 201. Before him are Richard Stallman, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Niklaus Wirth. After him are Linus Torvalds, John McCarthy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, and Edgar F. Codd.
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 4
1921 - 2017
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 5
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 6
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 7
1930 - 2002
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 8
1934 - Present
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 9
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 10
1969 - Present
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 11
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 13
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 14
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 15
1923 - 2003
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1914, George Dantzig ranks 29. Before him are Joe Louis, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Desmond Llewelyn, Karl Carstens, Joe DiMaggio, and Philippe Ariès. After him are Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Robert Wise, Peter Townsend, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Etty Hillesum, and Gino Bartali. Among people deceased in 2005, George Dantzig ranks 37. Before him are Maria Schell, Max Schmeling, Moustapha Akkad, Anne Bancroft, Joseph Rotblat, and Ibrahim Ferrer. After him are Lucien Laurent, Robert Wise, Brother Roger, Birgit Nilsson, Ahmed Deedat, and John Fowles.
1914 - 1981
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 23
1914 - 1963
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 24
1914 - 1999
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 25
1914 - 1992
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 26
1914 - 1999
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 27
1914 - 1984
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 28
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 29
1914 - 1999
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 30
1914 - 2005
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 31
1914 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 32
1914 - 1997
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 33
1914 - 1943
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 34
1914 - 2000
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 35
1926 - 2005
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 31
1905 - 2005
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 32
1930 - 2005
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 33
1931 - 2005
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 34
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 35
1927 - 2005
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 36
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 37
1907 - 2005
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 38
1914 - 2005
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 39
1915 - 2005
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 40
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 41
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 42
1926 - 2005
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 43
Among people born in United States, George Dantzig ranks 987 out of 18,182. Before him are Blake Edwards (1922), Charles Cooley (1864), Dave Brubeck (1920), Matt Groening (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), and L. Frank Baum (1856). After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Winona Ryder (1971), Frederick Herzberg (1923), Cyndi Lauper (1953), Richard Thaler (1945), and Vera Rubin (1928).
1922 - 2010
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 981
1864 - 1929
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 982
1920 - 2012
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 983
1954 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 984
1909 - 1993
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 985
1856 - 1919
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 986
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 987
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 988
1971 - Present
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 989
1923 - 2000
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 990
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 991
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 992
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 993
Among computer scientists born in United States, George Dantzig ranks 5. Before him are Grace Hopper (1906), Richard Stallman (1953), Dennis Ritchie (1941), and Donald Knuth (1938). After him are John McCarthy (1927), Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Ken Thompson (1943), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910).
1906 - 1992
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 1
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 3
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 4
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 5
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 6
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 9
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 11
1910 - 2008
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 12