COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 355,353 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Martin Fowler is the 155th most popular computer scientist (down from 144th in 2019), the 4,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,237th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martin Fowlers by language

Over the past year Martin Fowler has had the most page views in the with 6,704 views, followed by German (6,069), and English (5,999). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (70.65%), Serbian (29.98%), and Bulgarian (17.61%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Martin Fowler ranks 155 out of 245. Before him are Vitalik Buterin, E. Allen Emerson, David Marr, Kathleen Booth, Randy Pausch, and Raj Reddy. After him are James H. Clark, Bertrand Meyer, Tim Paterson, Steve Russell, Andy Hertzfeld, and Michael Dertouzos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Martin Fowler ranks 400. Before him are József Kiprich, Vital Borkelmans, Larry the Cable Guy, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Ronny Rosenthal, and Kira Ivanova. After him are Luca Cadalora, Guy Chambers, Russell Wong, Joakim Nyström, Linda Yaccarino, and Armin Schwarz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Fowler ranks 4,677 out of 8,785. Before him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), Bill Moggridge (1943), Michael Howard (1941), Bunny Austin (1906), Jocelyn Pook (1960), and Peter Warlock (1894). After him are Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736), Guy Chambers (1963), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), Michael Jayston (1935), and Hugh Hopper (1945).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Martin Fowler ranks 14. Before him are Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), David Marr (1945), and Kathleen Booth (1922). After him are Gary McKinnon (1966), Andrew Morton (1959), Alan Cox (1968), Sophie Wilson (1957), Stuart J. Russell (1962), and Demis Hassabis (1976).

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