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  • How Famous Is Tim Berners-Lee?

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    Technologist
    Inventor
    According to our voters, Tim Berners-Lee is the...

    1904th most famous person in the world!

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a key figure in computer science and has received numerous accolades including the Turing Award.

    This is based on winning 3 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 20 head-to-head matchups.

    Most recently Tim Berners-Lee lost a matchup to Frank Gehry (#1217) voted by someone from Canada.

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