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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 702,881 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). John Draper is the 68th most popular computer scientist (up from 73rd in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Canada (up from 4,713th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

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  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Draper ranks 68 out of 201Before him are Ole-Johan Dahl, Larry Tesler, Gary Kildall, Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, and Mary Kenneth Keller. After him are John Henry Holland, John Cocke, Ron Rivest, Judea Pearl, James H. Wilkinson, and Leonard Adleman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, John Draper ranks 287Before him are Gary Burton, Ignacio Ramonet, Inna Churikova, Valerie Perrine, Penny Marshall, and Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov. After him are Rashid Sunyaev, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Xu Caihou, Tim Krabbé, Roberto Rosato, and Giuseppe Versaldi.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Draper ranks 214 out of 1,350Before him are John van 't Schip (1963), Richard Williams (1933), Terry Fox (1958), Hume Cronyn (1911), Marc Singer (1948), and Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907). After him are Florence Lawrence (1886), Roddy Piper (1954), Ernest Burgess (1886), Neil Peart (1952), Robbie Robertson (1943), and Peter North (1957).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

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