1947 - Today
Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ron Rivest has received more than 588,081 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Ron Rivest is the 71st most popular computer scientist (down from 58th in 2019), the 4,430th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,074th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Computer Scientist.
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Among computer scientists, Ron Rivest ranks 71 out of 201. Before him are Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, Mary Kenneth Keller, John Draper, John Henry Holland, and John Cocke. After him are Judea Pearl, James H. Wilkinson, Leonard Adleman, Ed Roberts, Ivar Jacobson, and Martin Hellman.
1939 - 2003
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 65
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 66
1913 - 1985
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 67
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 68
1929 - 2015
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 69
1925 - 2002
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 70
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 71
1936 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 72
1919 - 1986
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 73
1945 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 74
1941 - 2010
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 75
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 76
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 77
Among people born in 1947, Ron Rivest ranks 299. Before him are Jean Echenoz, Bernard Giraudeau, Andréa Ferréol, Jozef De Kesel, David Zucker, and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov. After him are Adam Cheng, Mirza Khazar, Mel Collins, Alaksandar Milinkievič, Gunter Demnig, and Apasra Hongsakula.
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 293
1947 - 2010
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 294
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 295
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 296
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 297
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 298
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 299
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 300
1947 - 2020
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 301
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 302
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 303
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 304
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 305
Among people born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 4,430 out of 18,182. Before him are Vince Gilligan (1967), Paul Butterfield (1942), James J. Corbett (1866), Tab Hunter (1931), Nick Cassavetes (1959), and Chris Hardwick (1971). After him are Victor Wong (1927), Michael Cristofer (1945), Mehmet Oz (1960), Meriwether Lewis (1774), John R. Commons (1862), and Robert Mueller (1944).
1967 - Present
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 4,424
1942 - 1987
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 4,425
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 4,426
1931 - 2018
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 4,427
1959 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,428
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,429
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,430
1927 - 2001
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,431
1945 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,432
1960 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 4,433
1774 - 1809
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 4,434
1862 - 1945
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 4,435
1944 - Present
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 4,436
Among computer scientists born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 44. Before him are Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), and John Cocke (1925). After him are Leonard Adleman (1945), Ed Roberts (1941), Martin Hellman (1945), Stephen Cook (1939), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and David A. Huffman (1925).
1945 - 2020
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 38
1942 - 1994
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 39
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 40
1913 - 1985
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 41
1929 - 2015
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 42
1925 - 2002
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 43
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 44
1945 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 45
1941 - 2010
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 46
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 47
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 48
1936 - Present
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 49
1925 - 1999
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 50