1998th most famous person in the world!

Aaron Swartz was an influential computer programmer and Internet activist. He co-founded Reddit and helped develop the RSS web feed format. Swartz's work focused on open access and political activism.

This is based on winning 2 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 16 head-to-head matchups.

Most recently Aaron Swartz lost a matchup to Laurent Blanc (#1122) voted by someone from Canada.