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Linus Torvalds

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Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was one of the recipients of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Linus Torvalds is the 15th most popular computer scientist (down from 11th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Finland (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Computer Scientist.

Linus Torvalds is most famous for creating the Linux kernel.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Linus Torvalds ranks 15 out of 245. Before him are Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, Niklaus Wirth, and Lotfi A. Zadeh. After him are Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, Don Norman, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and John Backus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Linus Torvalds ranks 22. Before him are Renée Zellweger, Javier Bardem, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Antonio Conte, Gerard Butler, and Dennis Bergkamp. After him are Matthew McConaughey, Edward Norton, Sean Combs, Matthew Perry, Jack Black, and Ed Miliband.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Linus Torvalds ranks 28 out of 751. Before him are Mikael Agricola (1510), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Kyösti Kallio (1873), and Helene Schjerfbeck (1862). After him are Lars Ahlfors (1907), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), George Gaynes (1917), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mika Häkkinen (1968), and Wäinö Aaltonen (1894).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Finland

Among computer scientists born in Finland, Linus Torvalds ranks 1. 

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