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Douglas McIlroy

1932 - Today

Douglas McIlroy

Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. He was also one of the pioneering researchers of macro processors and programming language extensibility. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Douglas McIlroy is the 828th most popular mathematician (down from 802nd in 2024), the 8,596th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,894th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Douglas McIlroy ranks 828 out of 1,004. Before him are Anatoly Karatsuba, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, William Henry Young, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Grigori Grabovoi, and Walter Rudin. After him are Hans Rademacher, Ennio de Giorgi, Hellmuth Kneser, Friedrich Engel, Corrado Segre, and George Szekeres.

Most Popular Mathematicians in Wikipedia

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Anatoly Karatsuba
1937 - 2008
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 822
Stefan Mazurkiewicz
1888 - 1945
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 823
William Henry Young
1863 - 1942
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 824
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 825
Grigori Grabovoi
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 826
Walter Rudin
1921 - 2010
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 827
Douglas McIlroy
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 828
Hans Rademacher
1892 - 1969
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 829
Ennio de Giorgi
1928 - 1996
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 830
Hellmuth Kneser
1898 - 1973
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 831
Friedrich Engel
1861 - 1941
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 832
Corrado Segre
1863 - 1924
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 833
George Szekeres
1911 - 2005
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 834

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Douglas McIlroy ranks 411. Before him are Robert Coover, Gaudencio Rosales, Maya Kristalinskaya, Fazu Aliyeva, Jerzy Pawłowski, and Oliver Nelson. After him are Jiří Havlis, Gaston Mercier, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Guillaume Bieganski, Ivan Šantek, and François Deguelt.

Others Born in 1932

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Robert Coover
WRITER
1932 - 2024
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 405
Gaudencio Rosales
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 406
Maya Kristalinskaya
SINGER
1932 - 1985
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 407
Fazu Aliyeva
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1932 - 2016
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 408
Jerzy Pawłowski
POLITICIAN
1932 - 2005
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 409
Oliver Nelson
MUSICIAN
1932 - 1975
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 410
Douglas McIlroy
MATHEMATICIAN
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 411
Jiří Havlis
ATHLETE
1932 - 2010
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 412
Gaston Mercier
ATHLETE
1932 - 1974
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 413
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1932 - 2017
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 414
Guillaume Bieganski
SOCCER PLAYER
1932 - 2016
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 415
Ivan Šantek
SOCCER PLAYER
1932 - 2015
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 416
François Deguelt
SINGER
1932 - 2014
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 417