Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux & Git
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Updated 2026-05-29
Finnish-American engineer who created Linux in 1991 and later built Git, the version control system now powering most of the world's code repositories.
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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| Repository | Language | Stars |
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linux | C | ★175K |
subsurface | C++ | ★3K |
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