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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 6,424,961 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gottfrid Svartholm is the 213th most popular computer scientist (down from 191st in 2019), the 1,476th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 1,088th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 213 out of 201. Before him are Larry Ewing, Katie Bouman, John Resig, David Heinemeier Hansson, Maria Klawe, and David Karp. After him are Manindra Agrawal, Blake Ross, Arfa Karim, and Virgil Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 857. Before him are Gilmar Silva, Iván Ramis, Grzegorz Wojtkowiak, Nemanja Rnić, Chanelle Scheepers, and Edixon Perea. After him are Chadli Amri, Jeronimas Milius, Rene Mandri, Marco Airosa, Sergio Gadea, and Lena Waithe.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 1,476 out of 1,612. Before him are Jennie Johansson (1988), John Martin (1980), Adam Johansson (1983), Jakob Johansson (1990), Tobias Ludvigsson (1991), and Karl Petter Løken (1966). After him are Gustav Fridolin (1983), Richard Gough (1962), Badou Jack (1983), Markus Oscarsson (1977), Lisa Nordén (1984), and Patrik Carlgren (1992).

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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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