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  • How Famous Is Dennis Ritchie?

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    According to our voters, Dennis Ritchie is the...

    2544th most famous person in the world!

    Dennis Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system with Ken Thompson. His contributions have profoundly influenced modern computing.

    This is based on winning 0 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 19 head-to-head matchups.

    Most recently Dennis Ritchie lost a matchup to Ana Ivanovic (#660) voted by someone from Canada.

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