1937 - 2018
Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American engineer Paul Baran. The ARPANET's principal designer was Bob Kahn who worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Roberts has received more than 11,227 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lawrence Roberts is the 425th most popular businessperson (down from 408th in 2019), the 5,793rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,408th in 2019) and the 139th most popular American Businessperson.
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Among businesspeople, Lawrence Roberts ranks 425 out of 601. Before him are Vincent J. McMahon, Jean-Michel Aulas, Charles Geschke, Lee Jae-yong, Bob Lazar, and John Houlding. After him are Elisabeth Abegg, Piero Dusio, Maurice Farman, Michael Dell, George Peabody, and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh.
1914 - 1984
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 419
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 420
1939 - 2021
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 421
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 422
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 423
1833 - 1902
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 424
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 425
1882 - 1974
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 426
1899 - 1975
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 427
1877 - 1964
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 428
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 429
1795 - 1869
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 430
1938 - Present
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 431
Among people born in 1937, Lawrence Roberts ranks 291. Before him are Rupiah Banda, Andrija Anković, Zhang Jie, Jørgen Leth, Yvonne Craig, and Jerry Weintraub. After him are Sandy Dennis, Dawn Fraser, José Augusto, Nikolay Drozdov, Jorge Cafrune, and Nélida Piñon. Among people deceased in 2018, Lawrence Roberts ranks 260. Before him are Dave Holland, Elias M. Stein, Arie den Hartog, Sabahudin Kurt, Oliver Ivanović, and Marijan Beneš. After him are Morgan Tsvangirai, Sergio Pitol, Toshiko Fujita, Ringo Lam, David Douglas Duncan, and Verne Troyer.
1937 - 2022
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 285
1937 - 1980
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 286
1937 - 2022
HPI: 48.05
Rank: 287
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 288
1937 - 2015
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 289
1937 - 2015
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 290
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 291
1937 - 1992
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 292
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 293
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 294
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 295
1937 - 1978
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 296
1937 - 2022
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 297
1948 - 2018
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 254
1931 - 2018
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 255
1941 - 2018
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 256
1935 - 2018
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 257
1953 - 2018
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 258
1951 - 2018
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 259
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 260
1952 - 2018
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 261
1933 - 2018
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 262
1950 - 2018
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 263
1955 - 2018
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 264
1916 - 2018
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 265
1969 - 2018
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 266
Among people born in United States, Lawrence Roberts ranks 5,793 out of 18,182. Before him are Nicholas Gonzalez (1976), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Florence Lee (1888), Otto Warmbier (1994), William Gibson (1914), and Taylor Kinney (1981). After him are Tracy Chevalier (1962), Fanny Brice (1891), Maria Tallchief (1925), Sandra Bem (1944), Catherine Hardwicke (1955), and Roger Sessions (1896).
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 5,787
1910 - 1990
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 5,788
1888 - 1962
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 5,789
1994 - 2017
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 5,790
1914 - 2008
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,791
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,792
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,793
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,794
1891 - 1951
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,795
1925 - 2013
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 5,796
1944 - 2014
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 5,797
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 5,798
1896 - 1985
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 5,799
Among businesspeople born in United States, Lawrence Roberts ranks 139. Before him are Samuel Brannan (1819), Muhtar Kent (1952), David Geffen (1943), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Charles Geschke (1939), and Bob Lazar (1959). After him are Michael Dell (1965), George Peabody (1795), Jerry Buss (1933), Helen Walton (1919), James Buchanan Duke (1856), and Milton S. Hershey (1857).
1819 - 1889
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 133
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 134
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 135
1914 - 1984
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 136
1939 - 2021
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 137
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 138
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 139
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 140
1795 - 1869
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 141
1933 - 2013
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 142
1919 - 2007
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 143
1856 - 1925
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 144
1857 - 1945
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 145