COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Kevin Mitnick

1963 - 2023

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Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes. Mitnick's pursuit, arrest, trial and sentence were all controversial, as were the associated media coverage, books and films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kevin Mitnick has received more than 5,147,036 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Kevin Mitnick is the 27th most popular computer scientist (up from 29th in 2019), the 1,958th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,117th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kevin Mitnick ranks 27 out of 245. Before him are Vint Cerf, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Naur. After him are Ward Cunningham, Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, and Luigi Federico Menabrea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Kevin Mitnick ranks 66. Before him are Luis Arce, Junji Ito, Liu Cixin, Andrej Kiska, Satoshi Kon, and David Thewlis. After him are Gaspar Noé, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Beals, Seal, and Mike Pompeo. Among people deceased in 2023, Kevin Mitnick ranks 129. Before him are Robbie Robertson, Adolf Scherer, Natalie Zemon Davis, Roberto Dinamite, Ray Stevenson, and Howard S. Becker. After him are David Crosby, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, David Albahari, Hans Albert, Nina Matviienko, and Suzanne Somers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kevin Mitnick ranks 1,958 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Adams (1952), Mark W. Clark (1896), Dana Elcar (1927), Peggy Lee (1920), Paul Schrader (1946), and Howard S. Becker (1928). After him are Fred Phelps (1929), Gigi Hadid (1995), Isaac Hayes (1942), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Henry Molaison (1926), and Tucker Carlson (1969).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Kevin Mitnick ranks 17. Before him are John Backus (1924), Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), and Larry Page (1973). After him are Ward Cunningham (1949), Barbara Liskov (1939), Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Jef Raskin (1943), and Alan Perlis (1922).

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