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Richard Garriott

1961 - Today

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Richard Allen Garriott (born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development. On October 12, 2008, Garriott flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 mission to the International Space Station as a private astronaut, returning 12 days later aboard Soyuz TMA-12. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Garriott has received more than 1,384,230 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Garriott is the 146th most popular computer scientist (down from 140th in 2019), the 4,420th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,164th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard Garriott ranks 146 out of 245. Before him are Subhash Kak, Robert Tappan Morris, Thomas E. Kurtz, David Patterson, Christos Papadimitriou, and Leslie Valiant. After him are Kent Beck, Paul Graham, Rudolf Bayer, Vitalik Buterin, E. Allen Emerson, and David Marr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Richard Garriott ranks 345. Before him are Omar Razzaz, Toni Nadal, Luigi De Agostini, Irfan Smajlagić, Evan Handler, and Rae Dawn Chong. After him are Kent Beck, Unsuk Chin, Corinne Hermès, Arnór Guðjohnsen, Mike Dunleavy, and Malu Dreyer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Garriott ranks 4,420 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), John Morton (1420), Maud Gonne (1866), Gavin Bryars (1943), Thomas Nuttall (1786), and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801). After him are Abraham Cowley (1618), Jeremy Spencer (1948), Richard Sinclair (1948), Randolph Caldecott (1846), Susan Haack (1945), and Thomas Sully (1783).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Richard Garriott ranks 10. Before him are Maurice Wilkes (1913), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Robin Milner (1934), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), and Stephen Wolfram (1959). After him are Paul Graham (1964), David Marr (1945), Kathleen Booth (1922), Martin Fowler (1963), Gary McKinnon (1966), and Andrew Morton (1959).

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