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Gary McKinnon

1966 - Today

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Gary McKinnon (born February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, then Home Secretary Theresa May blocked extradition to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary McKinnon is the 191st most popular computer scientist (down from 165th in 2024), the 5,759th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,971st in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Gary McKinnon ranks 191 out of 245. Before him are Grady Booch, Dave Cutler, Tim Paterson, Robert Tappan Morris, Geir Ivarsøy, and Sugata Mitra. After him are Maria Klawe, Brian Acton, Ralph Merkle, Gilles Brassard, Erich Gamma, and Peter Norvig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Gary McKinnon ranks 451. Before him are Sergei Puskepalis, Stanislav Bunin, Eric Rudolph, Shawn Drover, Zdenko Kožul, and Ivan Shapovalov. After him are Javier Weber, Liu Boming, Alka Yagnik, Aasif Mandvi, Taiji, and Yevgeny Mironov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gary McKinnon ranks 5,761 out of 8,785. Before him are Helen Bannerman (1862), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), Josephine Tewson (1931), Kenneth Williams (1926), Val Guest (1911), and Peter Doherty (1913). After him are Margaret Wycherly (1881), Des'ree (1968), Sonya Walger (1974), James Vaughan (1988), Stephen South (1952), and Reginald Denny (1891).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Gary McKinnon ranks 17. Before him are Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Demis Hassabis (1976), Kathleen Booth (1922), David Marr (1945), and Richard Garriott (1961). After him are Andrew Morton (1959), Sophie Wilson (1957), Stuart J. Russell (1962), David Jones (1966), and David Braben (1964).

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