COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Gottfrid Svartholm

1984 - Today

Gottfrid Svartholm

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 2006 police raid of The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film. He is a main focus of the documentary TPB AFK. In May 2013, WikiLeaks said Svartholm had worked with the organization for the 2010 release of Collateral Murder, the helicopter cockpit gunsight video of a July 2007 airstrike by U.S. forces in Baghdad. According to WikiLeaks, Svartholm served as technical consultant and managed infrastructure critical to the organization. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfrid Svartholm is the 223rd most popular computer scientist (up from 225th in 2019), the 1,380th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,458th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 223 out of 245. Before him are Bram Cohen, Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, Steve Wilhite, and Werner Koch. After him are John Ousterhout, Tron, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Shawn Fanning, Mihalis Yannakakis, and Mark Overmars.

Most Popular Computer Scientists in Wikipedia

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Bram Cohen
1975 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 217
Eric Allman
1955 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 218
Nancy Lynch
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.52
Rank: 219
Douglas Crockford
1955 - Present
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 220
Steve Wilhite
1948 - 2022
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 221
Werner Koch
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 222
Gottfrid Svartholm
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 223
John Ousterhout
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 224
Tron
1972 - 1998
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 225
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 226
Shawn Fanning
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 227
Mihalis Yannakakis
1953 - Present
HPI: 43.50
Rank: 228
Mark Overmars
1958 - Present
HPI: 43.01
Rank: 229

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 459. Before him are Divyanka Tripathi, Anna Tsuchiya, Dalibor Stevanović, Steve Darcis, Stewart Downing, and Ayila Yussuf. After him are Rune Jarstein, Anders Lindegaard, Mehdi Lacen, Natalia Lafourcade, Mark Bunn, and Aymen Mathlouthi.

Others Born in 1984

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Divyanka Tripathi
ACTOR
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 453
Anna Tsuchiya
ACTOR
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 454
Dalibor Stevanović
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 455
Steve Darcis
TENNIS PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 456
Stewart Downing
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 457
Ayila Yussuf
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 458
Gottfrid Svartholm
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 459
Rune Jarstein
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 460
Anders Lindegaard
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 461
Mehdi Lacen
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 462
Natalia Lafourcade
SINGER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 463
Mark Bunn
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 464
Aymen Mathlouthi
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 465

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 1,380 out of 1,879. Before him are Hanna Alström (1981), Linda Sembrant (1987), Emma Johansson (1983), Håkan Hellström (1974), Anna Ottosson (1976), and Yung Lean (1996). After him are Bengt Baron (1962), Leif Engqvist (1962), Mikael Lustig (1986), Rade Prica (1980), Peter Sunde (1978), and Anna Bågenholm (1970).

Others born in Sweden

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Hanna Alström
ACTOR
1981 - Present
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 1,374
Linda Sembrant
SOCCER PLAYER
1987 - Present
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 1,375
Emma Johansson
CYCLIST
1983 - Present
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 1,376
Håkan Hellström
MUSICIAN
1974 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 1,377
Anna Ottosson
SKIER
1976 - Present
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 1,378
Yung Lean
SINGER
1996 - Present
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 1,379
Gottfrid Svartholm
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 1,380
Bengt Baron
SWIMMER
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 1,381
Leif Engqvist
SOCCER PLAYER
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 1,382
Mikael Lustig
SOCCER PLAYER
1986 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 1,383
Rade Prica
SOCCER PLAYER
1980 - Present
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 1,384
Peter Sunde
POLITICIAN
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 1,385
Anna Bågenholm
PHYSICIAN
1970 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 1,386