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Larry Sanger

1968 - Today

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Lawrence Mark Sanger ( ; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Prior to Wikipedia, he was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, another online encyclopedia and the predecessor of Wikipedia. He later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Larry Sanger is the 191st most popular inventor (down from 183rd in 2019), the 3,169th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,662nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Larry Sanger ranks 191 out of 426. Before him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Fausto Veranzio, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, and Lucien Olivier. After him are Sequoyah, Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, and Garrett Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Larry Sanger ranks 66. Before him are Évariste Ndayishimiye, Josh Brolin, Hervé Renard, Mateusz Morawiecki, Colin McRae, and Tracy Morgan. After him are Vítor Pereira, Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, Mark Fisher, Akhtar Mansour, Thom Yorke, and Patricia Arquette.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 3,169 out of 20,380. Before him are Randy Newman (1943), Nancy Marchand (1928), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Alice Walton (1949), William Masters (1915), and Anne Schedeen (1949). After him are Donna Karan (1948), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Anna May Wong (1905), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), Tommie Smith (1944), and John Fetterman (1969).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 52. Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), and Arnold Orville Beckman (1900). After him are Sequoyah (1770), Garrett Morgan (1877), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Royal Rife (1888), and Melvil Dewey (1851).

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