The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Guatemala
This page contains a list of the greatest Guatemalan Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Guatemala. This makes Guatemala the birth place of the 32nd most number of Computer Scientists behind Slovakia, and Taiwan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guatemalan Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Guatemalan Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Luis von Ahn (b. 1978)
With an HPI of 52.11, Luis von Ahn is the most famous Guatemalan Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. For these projects and others, von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. von Ahn was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Guatemalan computer scientists born between 1978 and 1978. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Guatemalan computer scientists include Luis von Ahn. As of April 2024, 1 new Guatemalan computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Luis von Ahn.
