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Ken Olsen

1926 - 2011

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Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Olsen has received more than 273,020 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ken Olsen is the 309th most popular inventor (up from 329th in 2019), the 6,029th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,995th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ken Olsen ranks 309 out of 426. Before him are André Blondel, Marion Donovan, Alexander Bain, Paul von Jankó, David Bushnell, and Dan Bricklin. After him are Jack Northrop, Wilson Greatbatch, Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, and Ernst Alexanderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ken Olsen ranks 302. Before him are Andy Griffith, Danièle Delorme, Jean Poiret, Zena Marshall, Uttam Kumar, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. After him are Hans Günter Winkler, Arne Bendiksen, Rossella Falk, Inna Makarova, Abdur Rahman Biswas, and Rodrigo Carazo Odio. Among people deceased in 2011, Ken Olsen ranks 269. Before him are Francesco Quinn, Grete Waitz, Scott Columbus, Nate Dogg, Amparo Muñoz, and Sakyo Komatsu. After him are Geraldine Ferraro, Clemar Bucci, Tura Satana, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, Wilson Greatbatch, and Hans Apel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ken Olsen ranks 6,029 out of 20,380. Before him are Beulah Bondi (1889), Grote Reber (1911), John Boehner (1949), Zach Braff (1975), Paul Dooley (1928), and Mark Boone Junior (1955). After him are Michael Cudlitz (1964), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Jerry Lucas (1940), Owen Garriott (1930), William Bonin (1947), and Walter Burley Griffin (1876).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Ken Olsen ranks 76. Before him are Jacob Perkins (1766), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Henry M. Leland (1843), Marion Donovan (1917), David Bushnell (1742), and Dan Bricklin (1951). After him are Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), and Jay Miner (1932).

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