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Alexey Pajitnov

1956 - Today

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Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian-American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris. In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. citizen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexey Pajitnov is the 8th most popular game designer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Russia (down from 417th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 8 out of 77. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, Lizzie Magie, Markus Persson, Hideo Kojima, Ralph H. Baer, and Jeff Kinney. After him are Satoru Iwata, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Toru Iwatani, John Carmack, and Satoshi Tajiri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 78. Before him are Guido van Rossum, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Larry Bird, Walter Salles, Boris Trajkovski, and David Sassoli. After him are Jens Fink-Jensen, Patricia Cornwell, Boris Akunin, Mimi Rogers, Rita Wilson, and Michael Biehn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 584 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Mikhail Tomsky (1880), Georges Gurvitch (1894), and Galina Vishnevskaya (1926). After him are Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), Sergey Sazonov (1860), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097), Vasily Chapayev (1887), and Konstantin Paustovsky (1892).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Russia

Among game designers born in Russia, Alexey Pajitnov ranks 1. 

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