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Grace Hopper

1906 - 1992

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Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grace Hopper has received more than 5,574,525 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Grace Hopper is the 2nd most popular computer scientist, the 88th most popular biography from United States (up from 126th in 2019) and the most popular American Computer Scientist.

Grace Hopper was most famous for her work in the field of computer programming. She was a pioneer in the field of computer programming, and was the first person to develop a compiler for a computer programming language.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Grace Hopper ranks 2 out of 245. Before her are Alan Turing. After her are Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Stallman, Niklaus Wirth, Dennis Ritchie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Grace Hopper ranks 5. Before her are Leonid Brezhnev, Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After her are Samuel Beckett, Puyi, Luchino Visconti, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Albert Hofmann. Among people deceased in 1992, Grace Hopper ranks 3. Before her are Marlene Dietrich, and Isaac Asimov. After her are Alexander Dubček, Menachem Begin, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Joan Fuster, Francis Bacon, Astor Piazzolla, Mikhail Tal, and Olivier Messiaen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 88 out of 20,380. Before her are Morgan Freeman (1937), Larry Ellison (1944), John D. Rockefeller (1839), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Caitlyn Jenner (1949), and Charles Manson (1934). After her are Tina Turner (1939), Louis Armstrong (1901), Samuel Morse (1791), Woodrow Wilson (1856), Jeff Bezos (1964), and Vince McMahon (1945).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 1. After her are Richard Stallman (1953), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), John McCarthy (1927), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Marvin Minsky (1927), Ivan Sutherland (1938), George Dantzig (1914), Ray Kurzweil (1948), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943).

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