The Most Famous

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Algeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, NaN of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 0th most number of Computer Scientists.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Algerian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Hamza Bendelladj (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 39.44, Hamza Bendelladj is the most famous Algerian Computer Scientist.  His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.

Hamza Bendelladj (Arabic: حمزة بن دلاج, romanized: Ḥamza ben Delāj; born 1988) is an Algerian cyberhacker and carder who goes by the code name BX1 and has been nicknamed the "Smiling Hacker". This led to a search for him that lasted 5 years. He was on the top 10 list of the most wanted hackers by Interpol and the FBI for allegedly embezzling tens of millions of dollars from more than two hundred American and European financial institutions via a computer virus, the "SpyEYE Botnet", which infected more than 60 million computers worldwide, mostly from the United States, and was developed with his Russian accomplice Aleksandr Andreivich Panin, a.k.a. "Gribodemon", to steal banking information stored on infected computers.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Algerian computer scientists born between 1988 and 1988. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Algerian computer scientists include Hamza Bendelladj. As of April 2024, 1 new Algerian computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Hamza Bendelladj.

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