Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

28 December 1969

Born on the same birth day (28 December): Allar Levandi • Calixa Lavallée • Curtis Glencross • Dick Sudhalter • F. W. Murnau • Johnny Isakson • Lawrence Schiller • Lew Ayres • Mariam A. Aleem • Martin Milner • Nigel Kennedy

Born in the same month (December 1969): Adam Riess • Akira Iida • Chantal Petitclerc • Craig White • Darren Berry • Hal Steinbrenner • Julie Delpy • Lewis Pugh • Lori Greiner • Michael Bates (American football) • Mick Quinn • Morgan J. Freeman • Nayan Mongia • Noel Goldthorpe • Pernille Fischer Christensen • Ramón Ramírez (footballer) • Richard Hammond • Simon Grayson • Zahra Ouaziz