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Richard Garriott

1961 - Today

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Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and space tourist. 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 1,326,080 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Richard Garriott is the 140th most popular computer scientist (down from 107th in 2019), the 4,172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,520th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 29

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  • 3.38

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  • 3.64

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard Garriott ranks 140 out of 201Before him are Audrey Tang, Jaron Lanier, James Rumbaugh, David Patterson, Rob Pike, and Robert Tarjan. After him are Kristen Nygaard, Bertrand Meyer, Steve Russell, Martin Fowler, Raj Reddy, and Kent Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Richard Garriott ranks 306Before him are Noriyuki Abe, Aldo Costa, William C. McCool, Frank Bruno, Jon Ola Sand, and Vik Muniz. After him are Kim Deal, Rebecca Solnit, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Bill Camp, Jaroslav Šilhavý, and Roberto Cabañas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Garriott ranks 4,172 out of 7,765Before him are Roy Bentley (1924), Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883), Rachel Portman (1960), Daniel Tammet (1979), Bradley James (1983), and Jackie Milburn (1924). After him are Holly Johnson (1960), Steve Jackson (1951), Joanne Harris (1964), George Abbot (1562), William Ames (1576), and Muriel Robb (1878).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Richard Garriott ranks 11Before him are James H. Wilkinson (1919), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robin Milner (1934), and Gary McKinnon (1966). After him are Martin Fowler (1963), Paul Graham (1964), Alan Cox (1968), Andrew Morton (1959), Kathleen Booth (1922), and Sophie Wilson (1957).

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