# Linus Torvalds

> He wrote the kernel that runs most of the internet, every Android phone, and the supercomputers mapping the cosmos - then gave it away for free.

*Finnish software engineer (born 1969)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/linus-torvalds

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1969-12-28
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Finland on 28 December 1969, Torvalds started building the Linux kernel in 1991 as a student project, releasing it under an open license that let anyone use or modify it. That decision seeded an operating system now embedded in billions of devices. Later he built Git, the version control system that coordinates code across nearly every major software project on earth. In 2012 he received the Millennium Technology Prize for creating "a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel." The IEEE gave him the Computer Pioneer Award in 2014 and the Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award in 2018. He remains the lead developer of Linux, still merging patches and steering the kernel's evolution three decades in.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 85.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 22.0 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 28.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 48.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 85.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #201
- **Category rank:** #1
- **Total followers across platforms:** 330,174

## Platforms
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linustorvalds/ (@linustorvalds)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1127735/ (@nm1127735)
- **WEBSITE**: https://torvalds-family.blogspot.com
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/torvalds (@torvalds, 327,384 followers)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRlMXh1ucCFQ9fZWCFfXWA (@@linustorvalds, 2,790 followers)

## Topics
#Open Source, #Developers, #Developer, #Web Development, #Literature, #Entrepreneurship

## Timeline
- **2018** - IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
- **2014** - Computer Pioneer Award
- **2012** - Internet Hall of Fame
- **2008** - Computer History Museum Fellow
- **2001** - European of the Year
- **2000** - Lovelace Medal
- **1999** - Honorary Doctor of Stockholm University
- **1998** - EFF Award
- **1969** - Born

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