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Denny Vrandečić

1978 - Today

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Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born 27 February 1978 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content. He published modules for the German role-playing game The Dark Eye. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States, until mid 2024, after which he returned to Stuttgart. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Denny Vrandečić is the 236th most popular computer scientist, the 6,608th most popular biography from Germany (up from 6,710th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Denny Vrandečić ranks 236 out of 245. Before him are Dariusz Jemielniak, Jenova Chen, Larry Ewing, Theodore Ts'o, Jon Lech Johansen, and Rosalind Picard. After him are David Heinemeier Hansson, Dries Buytaert, John Resig, Jamie Zawinski, Manindra Agrawal, and Ian Goodfellow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Denny Vrandečić ranks 933. Before him are Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Yana Dementyeva, Marion Wagner, Scott Lynch, Shaun Morgan, and Kenji Arai. After him are Nikolai Fraiture, Alberto Rivera, Gromee, Bermane Stiverne, Sofiane Melliti, and Masamitsu Kobayashi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Denny Vrandečić ranks 6,611 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Ehrhoff (1982), Eric Frenzel (1988), Nicole Fessel (1983), Benedikt Doll (1990), Michael Jurack (1979), and Franz Wagner (2001). After him are Sandro Cortese (1990), Anja Rücker (1972), Franziska Weber (1989), Tim Bendzko (1985), Cindy Roleder (1989), and Peter Sendel (1972).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Denny Vrandečić ranks 7. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Ian Murdock (1973), Rudolf Bayer (1939), Werner Koch (1961), Tron (1972), and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978). After him are Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).

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