The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Finland
This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 21st most number of Computer Scientists behind Hungary, and Azerbaijan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Finnish Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Linus Torvalds (b. 1969)
With an HPI of 69.10, Linus Torvalds is the most famous Finnish Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 120 different languages on wikipedia.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was one of the recipients of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Finnish computer scientists born between 1969 and 1969. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Finnish computer scientists include Linus Torvalds.
