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Bjarne Stroustrup

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Bjarne Stroustrup ( ; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bjarne Stroustrup is the 50th most popular engineer (up from 55th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Denmark (down from 126th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Engineer.

Bjarne Stroustrup is most famous for being the creator of the C++ programming language.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 50 out of 389. Before him are Villard de Honnecourt, Howard H. Aiken, Sergey Ilyushin, Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, and Viktor Bryukhanov. After him are Marcello Gandini, Ernst Heinkel, Godfrey Hounsfield, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, and John Ambrose Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 58. Before him are Cybill Shepherd, Timothy M. Dolan, Marianne Bachmeier, Chantal Akerman, Roza Otunbayeva, and Sônia Braga. After him are Julie Walters, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Lakshmi Mittal, Tsugumi Ohba, Shoko Hamada, and Christina Onassis.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 131 out of 1,032. Before him are Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), Prince George of Denmark (1653), Harald Bohr (1887), Sveinn Björnsson (1881), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852). After him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), and Giancarlo Esposito (1958).

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Among ENGINEERS In Denmark

Among engineers born in Denmark, Bjarne Stroustrup ranks 1. After him are Valdemar Poulsen (1869).

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