Claim profile

Niklaus Wirth

Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)

  • Fame57.9
  • Momentum18.0
  • Switzerland rank#145
Source-basedRising
  • Fame57.9
  • Momentum18.0
  • Switzerland rank#145
  • Developers rank#67
  • Wikipedia7.2K
Lived 1934–2024, aged 90Switzerland
Switzerland flagSwitzerlandDevelopersDeveloper
  • Wikipedia
    54 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Switzerland
    #145
    Developers
  • Era
    1934–2024
    Aged 90
  • Awards
    11
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".

By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
57.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum18.0
Historical24.3
Now attention25.2
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
Global rank
—
Country rank
#145
Category rank
#67
Receipts

Sources