COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Gottfrid Svartholm

1984 - Today

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Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 2006 police raid of The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film. He is a main focus of the documentary TPB AFK. In May 2013, WikiLeaks said Svartholm Warg had worked with the organization for the 2010 release of Collateral Murder, the helicopter cockpit gunsight video of a July 2007 airstrike by U.S. forces in Baghdad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfrid Svartholm has received more than 6,520,050 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gottfrid Svartholm is the 225th most popular computer scientist (down from 213th in 2019), the 1,457th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,475th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Computer Scientist.

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  • 34.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 225 out of 245. Before him are Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, Ilya Sutskever, Bassel Khartabil, Mark Overmars, and Shawn Fanning. After him are Ninoslav Marina, Jenova Chen, Mihalis Yannakakis, Lex Fridman, Danny Hillis, and Jon Lech Johansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 539. Before him are Mensur Mujdža, Akgul Amanmuradova, Taisir Al-Jassim, Hannah New, Abdoulay Konko, and Evgeny Morozov. After him are Li Yuchun, Marco Misciagna, Asia Kate Dillon, Mile Jedinak, Alex de Angelis, and Karun Chandhok.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 1,457 out of 1,879. Before him are Amanda Ilestedt (1993), Jan Karlsson (1966), Jörgen Pettersson (1975), Stefan Ishizaki (1982), Martin Ponsiluoma (1995), and Jörgen Jönsson (1972). After him are Gustav Svensson (1987), Karin Enström (1966), Michael Svensson (1975), Miiko Albornoz (1990), Mikael Ishak (1993), and Carolina Gynning (1978).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Sweden

Among computer scientists born in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 3. Before him are Ivar Jacobson (1939), and Christian Engström (1960).

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