1910 - 1999
Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999; [pjɛʁ etjɛn bezje]) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bézier has received more than 160,641 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Pierre Bézier is the 47th most popular computer scientist (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,718th most popular biography from France (down from 2,376th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, Pierre Bézier ranks 47 out of 201. Before him are Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, Don Norman, Leslie Lamport, Fred Brooks, and Warren Weaver. After him are Charles Bachman, Joseph Weizenbaum, Jay Wright Forrester, Alan Perlis, Edwin Catmull, and Vernor Vinge.
1976 - Present
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 41
1932 - 2020
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 42
1935 - Present
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 43
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 44
1931 - 2022
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 45
1894 - 1978
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 46
1910 - 1999
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 47
1924 - 2017
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 48
1923 - 2008
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 49
1918 - 2016
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 50
1922 - 1990
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 51
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 52
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 53
Among people born in 1910, Pierre Bézier ranks 124. Before him are Enrique Guaita, Howlin' Wolf, Magda Olivero, Viktors Arājs, Roy J. Plunkett, and Johan Ferrier. After him are Suleiman Frangieh, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Claire Trevor, Louis Prima, Ernst Schäfer, and Josef Klaus. Among people deceased in 1999, Pierre Bézier ranks 94. Before him are Alf Ramsey, Viacheslav Chornovil, Curtis Mayfield, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Jean Guitton, and András Hegedüs. After him are Bob Peck, Karen Demirchyan, Oscar Cullmann, George Mosse, Ron Wyatt, and Morris West.
1910 - 1959
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 118
1910 - 1976
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 119
1910 - 2014
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 120
1910 - 1988
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 121
1910 - 1994
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 122
1910 - 2010
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 123
1910 - 1999
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 124
1910 - 1992
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 125
1910 - 1990
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 126
1910 - 2000
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 127
1910 - 1978
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 128
1910 - 1992
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 129
1910 - 2001
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 130
1920 - 1999
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 88
1937 - 1999
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 89
1942 - 1999
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 90
1937 - 1999
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 91
1901 - 1999
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 92
1922 - 1999
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 93
1910 - 1999
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 94
1945 - 1999
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 95
1932 - 1999
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 96
1902 - 1999
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 97
1918 - 1999
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 98
1933 - 1999
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 99
1916 - 1999
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 100
Among people born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2,718 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean François de Troy (1679), André Dussollier (1946), Zaz (1980), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), and Louis Lavelle (1883). After him are Diana Vreeland (1903), Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (1487), Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015), Émile Combes (1835), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), and Henri Pélissier (1889).
1679 - 1752
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,712
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,713
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,714
1767 - 1843
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,715
1841 - 1902
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,716
1883 - 1951
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 2,717
1910 - 1999
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 2,718
1903 - 1989
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 2,719
1487 - 1550
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 2,720
1015 - 1087
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 2,721
1835 - 1921
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 2,722
1965 - Present
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 2,723
1889 - 1935
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 2,724
Among computer scientists born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809). After him are Jacques Vallée (1939), Yann LeCun (1960), Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).
1809 - 1896
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 1
1910 - 1999
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 2
1939 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 3
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 5
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 6