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Paul Graham

1964 - Today

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Paul Graham (; born November 13, 1964) is an English-American computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor. His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Graham is the 50th most popular computer scientist (up from 148th in 2019), the 1,899th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,474th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Paul Graham ranks 50 out of 245. Before him are Steve Russell, Kevin Mitnick, David Patterson, Thomas E. Kurtz, Mary Kenneth Keller, and Juris Hartmanis. After him are Joseph Weizenbaum, Bruce Perens, Allen Newell, Leonard Kleinrock, Leslie Lamport, and Alan Perlis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Paul Graham ranks 90. Before him are Rudi Garcia, Laura Harring, Tommi Mäkinen, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Txiki Begiristain, and Uday Hussein. After him are Anne Applebaum, Mark Dacascos, Rossy de Palma, Edith González, Tracy Chapman, and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Graham ranks 1,899 out of 8,785. Before him are Steven Runciman (1903), Gytha of Wessex (1053), Christina Rossetti (1830), Thomas Beecham (1879), Dunstan (909), and Sean Harris (1966). After him are Peter Taylor (1928), Gordon Ramsay (1966), John Bull (1562), Ian Kershaw (1943), Dorothy Round (1909), and Jack Hawkins (1910).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Paul Graham ranks 6. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Edgar F. Codd (1923), and Maurice Wilkes (1913). After him are James H. Wilkinson (1919), Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935).

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