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Seymour Cray

1925 - 1996

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Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seymour Cray has received more than 595,292 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Seymour Cray is the 192nd most popular engineer (down from 176th in 2019), the 4,212th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,583rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.28

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Seymour Cray ranks 192 out of 323. Before him are Joseph Strauss, Nikolay Kamov, Gene Kranz, Jon Postel, William Playfair, and W. Ross Ashby. After him are Evgeny Paton, Bassel al-Assad, Vasily Mishin, Semyon Lavochkin, Adolphe Alphand, and Eugen Sänger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Seymour Cray ranks 213. Before him are John Neville, Philippe Jaccottet, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Otto Muehl, Rubem Fonseca, and José Napoleón Duarte. After him are Cathy Berberian, Julian Beck, Duane Hanson, Ignacio López Tarso, Ernst Neizvestny, and Doris Roberts. Among people deceased in 1996, Seymour Cray ranks 134. Before him are Dondinho, Hillevi Rombin, Emile Habibi, Paul Rand, Ferdinand Leitner, and Léo Malet. After him are Joanne Dru, Ryōtarō Shiba, Duane Hanson, Tiny Tim, Pierre Grimal, and Eva Cassidy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 4,212 out of 18,182. Before him are Kevin Reynolds (1952), Casper Van Dien (1968), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Milt Jackson (1923), Steven Holl (1947), and Ona Munson (1903). After him are Mary Surratt (1823), Wallace Stevens (1879), Benny Urquidez (1952), Carol Lynley (1942), Bruce Sterling (1954), and Floyd Westerman (1936).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 16. Before him are J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Gene Kranz (1933), and Jon Postel (1943). After him are Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), Ed Heinemann (1908), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Eugene Polley (1915), and Burt Rutan (1943).

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