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Seymour Cray

1925 - 1996

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Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Seymour Cray is the 228th most popular engineer (down from 220th in 2019), the 5,573rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,687th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Seymour Cray ranks 228 out of 389. Before him are Mikhail Koshkin, Robert Mallet, James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, and Anousheh Ansari. After him are Johannes Winkler, Georgy Beriev, Benoît Fourneyron, Enrico Forlanini, Béla Barényi, and Jon Postel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Seymour Cray ranks 264. Before him are Vojtěch Jasný, Don Alden Adams, Yogi Berra, Konrad Wolf, Otto Muehl, and Ernst Neizvestny. After him are Henning Larsen, Gordon George Avery, Julian Beck, Shehu Shagari, Francesco Colasuonno, and José Beyaert. Among people deceased in 1996, Seymour Cray ranks 170. Before him are Yaki Kadafi, Laurens van der Post, Heriberto Herrera, Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, Dorothy Lamour, and Andrey Lukanov. After him are Ferdinand Leitner, Paul Rand, San Yu, Vagn Holmboe, Mikael Tariverdiev, and Aruna Asaf Ali.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 5,573 out of 20,380. Before him are Dominique Dunne (1959), Markiplier (1989), Hedda Hopper (1885), Henry Selick (1952), Erik Estrada (1949), and Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874). After him are Susan Strasberg (1938), Daniel Webster (1782), Marion Ross (1928), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Arthur O'Connell (1908), and Rachel Ticotin (1958).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 18. Before him are J. Walter Christie (1865), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Eugene Stoner (1922), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), and Gene Kranz (1933). After him are Jon Postel (1943), Charles F. Brush (1849), Ed Heinemann (1908), Ransom E. Olds (1864), Aron Ralston (1975), and Butler Lampson (1943).

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