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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 that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Stallman has received more than 4,069,524 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2019). Richard Stallman is the 4th most popular computer scientist (up from 5th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from United States (up from 559th 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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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard Stallman ranks 4 out of 201. Before him are Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Tim Berners-Lee. After him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth, George Dantzig, Linus Torvalds, and John McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Richard Stallman ranks 16. Before him are Kim Basinger, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Clayderman, Jeffrey Epstein, John Malkovich, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. After him are Benazir Bhutto, Tony Blair, Thomas Bach, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Mike Oldfield, and Hulk Hogan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Stallman ranks 531 out of 18,182. Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Ralph Lauren (1939), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Bernie Sanders (1941), Isaac Singer (1811), and Bradley Cooper (1975). After him are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Duke Ellington (1899), F. Murray Abraham (1939), Jennifer Aniston (1969), Steven Tyler (1948), and Matt Damon (1970).

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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), George Dantzig (1914), John McCarthy (1927), Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Ken Thompson (1943), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910).

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