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Linus Torvalds

1969 - Today

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Linus Benedict Torvalds ( LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linus Torvalds has received more than 5,672,220 page views. His biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 115 in 2019). Linus Torvalds is the 11th most popular computer scientist, the 30th most popular biography from Finland (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Computer Scientist.

Linus Torvalds is most famous for creating the Linux kernel.

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  • 114

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  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Linus Torvalds ranks 11 out of 201Before him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth, and George Dantzig. After him are John McCarthy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Edgar F. Codd, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Linus Torvalds ranks 13Before him are Edward Norton, Gabriel Batistuta, Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Javier Bardem. After him are Steffi Graf, Renée Zellweger, Dennis Bergkamp, Felix Baumgartner, Marilyn Manson, and Antonio Conte.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Linus Torvalds ranks 30 out of 642Before him are Johan Gadolin (1760), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mikael Agricola (1510), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), and Mika Häkkinen (1968). After him are Mauno Koivisto (1923), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Kyösti Kallio (1873), Kimi Räikkönen (1979), Matti Nykänen (1963), and Hannes Kolehmainen (1889).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Finland

Among computer scientists born in Finland, Linus Torvalds ranks 1