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Richard Stallman

1953 - Today

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Richard Matthew Stallman ( STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Stallman has received more than 4,293,911 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Richard Stallman is the 4th most popular computer scientist, the 502nd most popular biography from United States (up from 531st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Richard Stallman is a computer programmer who is most famous for his work on the GNU Project, which he started in 1983. The GNU Project's goal is to create a free operating system that would be compatible with Unix.

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  • 107

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  • 7.97

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  • 5.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard Stallman ranks 4 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Tim Berners-Lee. After him are Niklaus Wirth, Dennis Ritchie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Richard Stallman ranks 16. Before him are Isabelle Huppert, Kim Basinger, Richard Clayderman, Ahmad Shah Massoud, John Malkovich, and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. After him are Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, Benazir Bhutto, Jim Jarmusch, Carlos Queiroz, and Paul Krugman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Stallman ranks 502 out of 20,380. Before him are Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Richard E. Byrd (1888), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Bill Murray (1950), and Talia Shire (1946). After him are John Cazale (1935), Jean Seberg (1938), Nancy Reagan (1921), David Carradine (1936), Donald A. Glaser (1926), and Kathy Bates (1948).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Richard Stallman ranks 2. Before him are Grace Hopper (1906). After him are Dennis Ritchie (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), John McCarthy (1927), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Marvin Minsky (1927), Ivan Sutherland (1938), George Dantzig (1914), Ray Kurzweil (1948), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943).

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