COMPUTER SCIENTIST

John Draper

1943 - Today

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John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Draper has received more than 789,472 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. John Draper is the 97th most popular computer scientist (down from 68th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 214th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Draper ranks 97 out of 245. Before him are Manuel Blum, Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, and Liviu Librescu. After him are Karen Spärck Jones, Ed Roberts, Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Stephen Wolfram, and Paul G. Comba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, John Draper ranks 374. Before him are Ling Liong Sik, Héctor Chumpitaz, Brian Ferneyhough, Leonid Ivashov, Michael Morpurgo, and Boediono. After him are Ilaiyaraaja, Jon Postel, Robert Axelrod, Tim Schenken, Mick Jackson, and Kuniwo Nakamura.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Draper ranks 273 out of 1,622. Before him are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Albert S. Ruddy (1930), Anna Paquin (1982), Manly P. Hall (1901), Robert Langlands (1936), and Roberta Bondar (1945). After him are Paul Haggis (1953), Gordon Lightfoot (1938), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), Henri Richard (1936), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), and Deborah Kara Unger (1966).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, John Draper ranks 4. Before him are James Gosling (1955), Brian Kernighan (1942), and Alfred Aho (1941). After him are Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), Gilles Brassard (1955), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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