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Paul Graham

1964 - Today

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Paul Graham (; born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Graham has received more than 49,785 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Paul Graham is the 158th most popular computer scientist (down from 146th in 2019), the 4,759th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,418th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Paul Graham ranks 158 out of 201. Before him are Dave Cutler, Grady Booch, Sudha Murty, Jean E. Sammet, Robert Tappan Morris, and Andy Hertzfeld. After him are Peter Shor, Subhash Kak, Hal Abelson, Alan Cox, Paul Buchheit, and Sugata Mitra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Paul Graham ranks 396. Before him are Tom McGrath, Markku Kanerva, Ricardo Moniz, Marco Ballotta, Kōsuke Fujishima, and Ron Gilbert. After him are Anna-Maja Henriksson, Craig Bierko, Goran Prpić, Gigi Fernández, Ron Harper, and Heike Henkel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Graham ranks 4,759 out of 7,765. Before him are Bob Gerard (1914), Ruth Wilson (1982), Craig Ferguson (1962), Jenna Coleman (1986), Sean Biggerstaff (1983), and Tony Robinson (1946). After him are Henry De la Beche (1796), Philip Selway (1967), Frederick Holman (1885), Lionel Tertis (1876), Imogen Poots (1989), and Titus Oates (1649).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Paul Graham ranks 13. Before him are Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robin Milner (1934), Gary McKinnon (1966), Richard Garriott (1961), and Martin Fowler (1963). After him are Alan Cox (1968), Andrew Morton (1959), Kathleen Booth (1922), Sophie Wilson (1957), and Demis Hassabis (1976).

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