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 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Gottfrid Svartholm is the 224th most popular computer scientist (up from 225th in 2024), the 1,404th 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 224 out of 245. Before him are Terry A. Davis, Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, Steve Wilhite, and Werner Koch. After him are Vincent Rijmen, John Ousterhout, Tron, David Jones, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Shawn Fanning.

Most Popular Computer Scientists in Wikipedia

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Terry A. Davis
1969 - 2018
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 218
Eric Allman
1955 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 219
Nancy Lynch
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.52
Rank: 220
Douglas Crockford
1955 - Present
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 221
Steve Wilhite
1948 - 2022
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 222
Werner Koch
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 223
Gottfrid Svartholm
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 224
Vincent Rijmen
1970 - Present
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 225
John Ousterhout
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 226
Tron
1972 - 1998
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 227
David Jones
1966 - Present
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 228
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 229
Shawn Fanning
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 230

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 466. 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: 460
Anna Tsuchiya
ACTOR
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 461
Dalibor Stevanović
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 462
Steve Darcis
TENNIS PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 463
Stewart Downing
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 464
Ayila Yussuf
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 465
Gottfrid Svartholm
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 466
Rune Jarstein
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 467
Anders Lindegaard
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 468
Mehdi Lacen
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 469
Natalia Lafourcade
SINGER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 470
Mark Bunn
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 471
Aymen Mathlouthi
SOCCER PLAYER
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 472

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm ranks 1,404 out of 1,879. Before him are Linda Sembrant (1987), Emma Johansson (1983), Håkan Hellström (1974), Anna Ottosson (1976), Yung Lean (1996), and Mikael Tillström (1972). After him are Bengt Baron (1962), Jessica Folcker (1975), Leif Engqvist (1962), Mikael Lustig (1986), Rade Prica (1980), and Peter Sunde (1978).

Others born in Sweden

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Linda Sembrant
SOCCER PLAYER
1987 - Present
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 1,398
Emma Johansson
CYCLIST
1983 - Present
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 1,399
Håkan Hellström
MUSICIAN
1974 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 1,400
Anna Ottosson
SKIER
1976 - Present
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 1,401
Yung Lean
SINGER
1996 - Present
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 1,402
Mikael Tillström
TENNIS PLAYER
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 1,403
Gottfrid Svartholm
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 1,404
Bengt Baron
SWIMMER
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 1,405
Jessica Folcker
SINGER
1975 - Present
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 1,406
Leif Engqvist
SOCCER PLAYER
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 1,407
Mikael Lustig
SOCCER PLAYER
1986 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 1,408
Rade Prica
SOCCER PLAYER
1980 - Present
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 1,409
Peter Sunde
POLITICIAN
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 1,410