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Shawn Fanning

1980 - Today

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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shawn Fanning has received more than 1,679,890 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Shawn Fanning is the 224th most popular computer scientist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 15,779th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,287th in 2019) and the 117th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 34.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Shawn Fanning ranks 224 out of 245. Before him are Bram Cohen, Demis Hassabis, Steve Wilhite, Ilya Sutskever, Bassel Khartabil, and Mark Overmars. After him are Gottfrid Svartholm, Ninoslav Marina, Jenova Chen, Mihalis Yannakakis, Lex Fridman, and Danny Hillis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Shawn Fanning ranks 602. Before him are Lazaros Papadopoulos, Markus Feehily, Sara Maldonado, Hanno Koffler, Anna Mucha, and Olivier Véran. After him are Fredrik Kessiakoff, Adina Pintilie, Ladj Ly, Brett Goldstein, Nelson Cuevas, and Dorin Goian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shawn Fanning ranks 15,779 out of 20,380. Before him are G. David Low (1956), Robert C. O'Brien (1966), Nargis Fakhri (1979), Brianna Brown (1979), Tom Emmer (1961), and Amandla Stenberg (1998). After him are Spencer Abraham (1952), Lavell Crawford (1968), John Daly (1966), Ben Barres (1954), James Arnold Taylor (1969), and Thom Tillis (1960).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Shawn Fanning ranks 117. Before him are Nancy Lynch (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Eric Allman (1955), Phil Katz (1962), Bram Cohen (1975), and Steve Wilhite (1948). After him are Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), Katie Bouman (1989), David Karp (1986), John Resig (1984), and Rosalind Picard (1962).

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