1954 - Today
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer, linguist and author. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Wall has received more than 554,001 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Larry Wall is the 61st most popular computer scientist (down from 56th in 2019), the 4,019th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,812th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, Larry Wall ranks 61 out of 201. Before him are James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Juris Hartmanis, Jacques Vallée, Alfred Aho, and Sergey Lebedev. After him are Ole-Johan Dahl, Larry Tesler, Gary Kildall, Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, and Mary Kenneth Keller.
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 55
1941 - 2009
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 56
1928 - 2022
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 57
1939 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 58
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 59
1902 - 1974
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 60
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 61
1931 - 2002
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 62
1945 - 2020
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 63
1942 - 1994
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 64
1939 - 2003
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 65
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 66
1913 - 1985
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 67
Among people born in 1954, Larry Wall ranks 148. Before him are Benoît Sokal, Abdelaziz Djerad, Didier Six, Kim Pyong-il, Leung Chun-ying, and Thomas de Maizière. After him are Herbert Hainer, James Pickens Jr., Howard Stern, Andrés Pastrana Arango, Giancarlo Antognoni, and Alice Krige.
1954 - 2021
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 142
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 143
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 144
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 145
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 146
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 147
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 148
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 149
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 150
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 151
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 152
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 153
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 154
Among people born in United States, Larry Wall ranks 4,019 out of 18,182. Before him are David Graeber (1961), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Anne Francis (1930), Michael Nouri (1945), Lenny Bruce (1925), and Bud Abbott (1897). After him are Amadeo Giannini (1870), Jerome Kern (1885), Kevin Feige (1973), Sarah Clarke (1972), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), and Bobby Vinton (1935).
1961 - 2020
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 4,013
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,014
1930 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,015
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,016
1925 - 1966
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,017
1897 - 1974
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,018
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,019
1870 - 1949
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,020
1885 - 1945
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,021
1973 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 4,022
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 4,023
1903 - 1931
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 4,024
1935 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 4,025
Among computer scientists born in United States, Larry Wall ranks 37. Before him are Charles Bachman (1924), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Alan Perlis (1922), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), and Gil Amelio (1943). After him are Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), and John Cocke (1925).
1924 - 2017
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 31
1918 - 2016
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 32
1922 - 1990
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 33
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 34
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 35
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 36
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 37
1945 - 2020
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 38
1942 - 1994
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 39
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 40
1913 - 1985
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 41
1929 - 2015
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 42
1925 - 2002
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 43