# Jean-Loup Gailly

> Jean-Loup Gailly is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler.

*French computer programmer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jean-loup-gailly

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1956
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jean-Loup Gailly is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 43.4 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 4.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 51.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://gailly.net/

## Sources
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