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Guido van Rossum is a male computer scientist, engineer, writer, and programmer born in Haarlem in 1956. He is a citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and resides in Belmont, United States. Van Rossum was educated at the University of Amsterdam and has worked for Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Google, and Microsoft. He is a native Dutch speaker and participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
His notable works include the Python and ABC programming languages. He held the position of Benevolent Dictator for Life within the Python community. Van Rossum received the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. He has authored fourteen works, including documentation such as *Introduction to Python 3* and the *Python/C Api Manual - Python 3*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Python Programming Language
- Python 3 and C or C++
- Introduction to Python 3 : (Python Documentation Manual Part 1)
- Python 3: Distributing Modules : (Python Documentation Manual Part 6)
- Python/C Api Manual - Python 3 : (Python Documentation Manual Part 4)
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Film & TV
Known for
- Python: The Documentary2025
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1956-01-31 ) 31 January 1956 (age 70) , The Hague , Netherlands
- Alma mater
- University of Amsterdam ( BS )
- Occupations
- Computer programmer, author
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Known for
- Creating the Python programming language
- Awards
- Award for the Advancement of Free Software (2001)
- Website
- gvanrossum .github .io
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Guido
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Haarlem
- Occupation
- programmer
- Position held
- Benevolent Dictator for Life
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Notable work
- ABC
- Participant in
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Field of work
- computer programming
- Official website
- gvanrossum.github.io
- Image
- Guido van Rossum in PyConUS24 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Guido van Rossum
- date of birth
- 1956-01-31
- name in native language
- Guido van Rossum
- official blog URL
- neopythonic.blogspot.com
- social media followers
- 277301
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Van Rossum at the 2008 Google I/O Developer's Conference Van Rossum at the 2006 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
Guido van Rossum ( Dutch: [ˈxidoː vɑn ˈrɔsʏm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer. He is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018. He remained a member of the Python Steering Council through 2019, and withdrew from nominations for the 2020 election.
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