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Anders Hejlsberg

Danish software engineer (born 1960)

  • Audience16.7K
  • Fame71.5
  • Momentum8.7
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16.7K github followers
  • Audience16.7K
  • Fame71.5
  • Momentum8.7
  • Developers rank#11
  • Wikipedia8.2K
Born 1960 · age 66
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  • Biggest on GitHub
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    @ahejlsberg
  • Wikipedia
    27 languages
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  • Age
    66
    Born 1960
  • Awards
    1
    recognised work
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Updated 2026-06-21

Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.

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Fame
Rising
71.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum8.7
Historical21.4
Now attention30.6
Source confidence85.0
Completeness80.0
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Category rank
#11
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