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Martin Fowler

1963 - Today

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Martin Fowler (18 December 1963) is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specialising in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming. His 1999 book Refactoring popularised the practice of code refactoring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Fowler has received more than 355,960 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Martin Fowler is the 144th most popular computer scientist (up from 150th in 2019), the 4,246th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,467th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Martin Fowler ranks 144 out of 201. Before him are Rob Pike, Robert Tarjan, Richard Garriott, Kristen Nygaard, Bertrand Meyer, and Steve Russell. After him are Raj Reddy, Kent Beck, Bruce Schneier, Tim Paterson, Silvio Micali, and Brewster Kahle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Martin Fowler ranks 336. Before him are Alaska, Petra De Sutter, Cuca, Helen Slater, Ni Xialian, and Scott Ian. After him are John Bercow, Hiroaki Hirata, Stanley Menzo, Luca Cadalora, Russell Wong, and Spud Webb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Fowler ranks 4,246 out of 7,765. Before him are Michael Crawford (1942), Arthur Whitten Brown (1886), Peter Osgood (1947), Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967), and James Herbert (1943). After him are Keith Campbell (1954), Eamonn Walker (1962), Malcolm Sargent (1895), Clive Standen (1981), Philippa Pearce (1920), and Geoff Lees (1951).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Martin Fowler ranks 12. Before him are Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robin Milner (1934), Gary McKinnon (1966), and Richard Garriott (1961). After him are Paul Graham (1964), Alan Cox (1968), Andrew Morton (1959), Kathleen Booth (1922), Sophie Wilson (1957), and Demis Hassabis (1976).

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