765th most famous person in the world!

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer known for creating the Linux kernel and the version control system Git. His contributions have significantly impacted open source software. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Millennium Technology Prize.

This is based on winning 8 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 15 head-to-head matchups.

Most recently Linus Torvalds lost a matchup to Dan Castellaneta (#1692) voted by someone from Brazil.