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Donald Knuth

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Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Knuth is the 10th most popular computer scientist (down from 8th in 2019), the 964th most popular biography from United States (down from 673rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Donald Knuth is most famous for his work in computer science, and in particular, for the development of the TeX typesetting system.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Donald Knuth ranks 10 out of 245. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, and Frances E. Allen. After him are Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, Niklaus Wirth, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, and Ray Kurzweil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Donald Knuth ranks 46. Before him are Abulfaz Elchibey, Fuad Masum, Oliver Reed, Marina Vlady, Diana Rigg, and Jean Seberg. After him are Alpha Condé, Gary Gygax, César Luis Menotti, José Altafini, Otto Rehhagel, and Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Knuth ranks 964 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Seberg (1938), Doug Emhoff (1964), Crazy Horse (1840), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Selena (1971), and Ryan O'Neal (1941). After him are Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Stan Kroenke (1947), Omar Bradley (1893), Anthony Perkins (1932), Art Garfunkel (1941), and Louise Hay (1926).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Donald Knuth ranks 7. Before him are Richard Stallman (1953), Grace Hopper (1906), John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), and Frances E. Allen (1932). After him are Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), and John Backus (1924).

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