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Alexandra Elbakyan

1988 - Today

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Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten "people who mattered" in science. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Alexandra Elbakyan is the 215th most popular computer scientist (down from 198th in 2024), the 109th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 97th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 215 out of 245. Before her are Daphne Koller, Bram Moolenaar, Craig Federighi, Theo de Raadt, Hans Reiser, and Martin Odersky. After her are Phil Katz, Bram Cohen, Terry A. Davis, Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, and Douglas Crockford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 319. Before her are Dani Stevens, Belal Muhammad, Anushka Sharma, Changmin, Agustín Marchesín, and Mohamed El Shenawy. After her are Angus McLaren, Nadine Keßler, Olga Govortsova, Vicente Iborra, Antonio Brown, and Marlos.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 109 out of 193. Before her are Oleg Maskayev (1969), Mukhtar Ablyazov (1963), Bakhytzhan Sagintayev (1963), Murat Nasyrov (1969), Denis Ten (1993), and Liu Yang (null). After her are Lera Kudryavtseva (1971), Olga Rypakova (1984), Dmitriy Karpov (1981), Evgeni Nabokov (1975), Yermakhan Ibraimov (1972), and Andrey Kashechkin (1980).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Kazakhstan

Among computer scientists born in Kazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 1. 

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