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Larry Sanger

1968 - Today

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Lawrence Mark Sanger ( ; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Prior to Wikipedia, he was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, another online encyclopedia and the predecessor of Wikipedia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Sanger has received more than 2,838,127 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Larry Sanger is the 183rd most popular inventor (up from 213th in 2019), the 2,662nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,139th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Larry Sanger ranks 183 out of 426. Before him are Philo Farnsworth, Henrich Focke, James Dyson, Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, and Charles Martin Hall. After him are Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, George de Mestral, Sandford Fleming, Traian Vuia, Johann Christoph Denner, and Samuel Pierpont Langley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Larry Sanger ranks 59. Before him are Aaron Eckhart, Hajime Moriyasu, Terry Crews, Slaven Bilić, Marc Anthony, and Mathias Rust. After him are Tracy Morgan, Stefan Effenberg, Patricia Arquette, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Thom Yorke, and Euronymous.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 2,662 out of 20,380. Before him are Merian C. Cooper (1893), John Kennedy Toole (1937), David Baltimore (1938), Lew Wallace (1827), Ed McBain (1926), and Edsel Ford (1893). After him are Téa Leoni (1966), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Eddie Fisher (1928), Lorenzo Lamas (1958), David Packard (1912), and Chad Smith (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 44. Before him are Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), Garrett Morgan (1877), Royal Rife (1888), Philo Farnsworth (1906), and Charles Martin Hall (1863). After him are Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), and Melvil Dewey (1851).

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