1941 - 2016
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Tomlinson has received more than 803,519 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ray Tomlinson is the 81st most popular inventor (down from 75th in 2019), the 889th most popular biography from United States (down from 789th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Inventor.
Ray Tompkins is most famous for his comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes."
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Among inventors, Ray Tomlinson ranks 81 out of 355. Before him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Alois Senefelder, Edmund Cartwright, Henry Bessemer, John Harrison, and Alphonse Bertillon. After him are Étienne-Jules Marey, Percy Spencer, Bi Sheng, Momofuku Ando, Johann Maria Farina, and Charles K. Kao.
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 75
1771 - 1834
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 76
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 77
1813 - 1898
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 78
1693 - 1776
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 79
1853 - 1914
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 80
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 81
1830 - 1904
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 82
1894 - 1970
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 83
990 - 1052
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 84
1910 - 2007
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 85
1685 - 1766
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 86
1933 - 2018
HPI: 70.91
Rank: 87
Among people born in 1941, Ray Tomlinson ranks 49. Before him are Ivan Gašparovič, Jordi Savall, Jürgen Prochnow, Anne Rice, Ivica Osim, and Dan Shechtman. After him are Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Chick Corea, Viktor Zubkov, Nathalie Delon, Michael D. Higgins, and Frank Farian. Among people deceased in 2016, Ray Tomlinson ranks 46. Before him are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Walter Scheel, George Gaynes, and Michael Cimino. After him are Ettore Scola, James Cronin, Harry Kroto, Jacques Rivette, Michèle Morgan, and Junko Tabei.
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 43
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 44
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 45
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 46
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 47
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 48
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 49
1941 - 1989
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 50
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 51
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 52
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 53
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 54
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 55
1917 - 2016
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 40
1920 - 2016
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 41
1929 - 2016
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 42
1919 - 2016
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 43
1917 - 2016
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 44
1939 - 2016
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 45
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 46
1931 - 2016
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 47
1931 - 2016
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 48
1939 - 2016
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 49
1928 - 2016
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 50
1920 - 2016
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 51
1939 - 2016
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 52
Among people born in United States, Ray Tomlinson ranks 889 out of 15,968. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Martin Seligman (1942), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Daniel Keyes (1927), Robert Solow (1924), and John L. Hall (1934). After him are Richard Dean Anderson (1950), Richard Crenna (1926), Eliot Ness (1903), Cyndi Lauper (1953), William P. Murphy (1892), and Thomas Pynchon (1937).
1913 - 1994
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 883
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 884
1925 - 2008
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 885
1927 - 2014
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 886
1924 - Present
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 887
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 888
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 889
1950 - Present
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 890
1926 - 2003
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 891
1903 - 1957
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 892
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 893
1892 - 1987
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 894
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 895
Among inventors born in United States, Ray Tomlinson ranks 20. Before him are Steve Wozniak (1950), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), John Deere (1804), George Eastman (1854), and John Browning (1855). After him are Percy Spencer (1894), Leo Fender (1909), Jacque Fresco (1916), Robert Noyce (1927), Hiram Maxim (1840), and Elisha Otis (1811).
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 14
1839 - 1913
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 15
1915 - 2009
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16
1804 - 1886
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 17
1854 - 1932
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 18
1855 - 1926
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 19
1941 - 2016
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 20
1894 - 1970
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 21
1909 - 1991
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 22
1916 - 2017
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 23
1927 - 1990
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 24
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 25
1811 - 1861
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 26