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Denny Vrandečić

1978 - Today

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Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born 27 February 1978) 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 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Denny Vrandečić is the 243rd most popular computer scientist (down from 236th in 2024), the 6,841st most popular biography from Germany (down from 6,708th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Denny Vrandečić ranks 243 out of 245. Before him are Theodore Ts'o, Jeff Dean, Jon Lech Johansen, Rosalind Picard, Andrej Karpathy, and David Braben. After him are Fabrice Bellard, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andrew Tridgell, Hamza Bendelladj, Rich Skrenta, and Eric Bina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Denny Vrandečić ranks 1,016. Before him are Scott Lynch, Shaun Morgan, Will Solomon, Kenji Arai, Patrick Hughes, and Bryan Bouffier. After him are Nikolai Fraiture, Alberto Rivera, Gromee, Bermane Stiverne, Letícia Birkheuer, and Sofiane Melliti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Denny Vrandečić ranks 6,844 out of 7,253. Before him are Benedikt Doll (1990), Stefan Beinlich (1972), Christoph Ahlhaus (1969), Michael Jurack (1979), Franz Wagner (2001), and Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm (1967). After him are Sandro Cortese (1990), Lukas Kampa (1986), Anja Rücker (1972), Franziska Weber (1989), Tim Bendzko (1985), and Cindy Roleder (1989).

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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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