COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Tony Hoare

1934 - Today

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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (; born 11 January 1934), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the Turing Award, usually regarded as the highest distinction in computer science, in 1980. Hoare developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959–1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Hoare has received more than 1,131,042 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Tony Hoare is the 30th most popular computer scientist, the 7th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Tony Hoare ranks 30 out of 245. Before him are Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Naur, Kevin Mitnick, Ward Cunningham, and Barbara Liskov. After him are Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Ken Kutaragi, Leonard Kleinrock, and Maurice Wilkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Tony Hoare ranks 110. Before him are Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, Jean Sorel, Garry Marshall, Fredric Jameson, and Kisho Kurokawa. After him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, Kira Muratova, Paul Cohen, and Gloria Steinem.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Tony Hoare ranks 7 out of 51. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), and William Chester Minor (1834). After him are Aryadeva (200), St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), and Jack Churchill (1906).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Sri Lanka

Among computer scientists born in Sri Lanka, Tony Hoare ranks 1. 

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