Rarest Turing Award Winner — All 79 Answers Ranked by Rarity

79 answers are accepted for “Name a Turing Award winner”. E. Allen Emerson is the rarest Turing Award winner in this ranking, with 2,655 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Edmund M. Clarke is the second-rarest with 3,550 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.34× the figure for E. Allen Emerson. Geoffrey Hinton is the most common Turing Award winner in this ranking, with 744,287 monthly Wikipedia views, 280.3× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 79 answers: 5,710,457. E. Allen Emerson is under 0.1% of that total. 16 answers are Epic or Legendary: E. Allen Emerson (Legendary), Edmund M. Clarke (Legendary), Richard E. Stearns (Legendary), and 13 more.

Quick answer

Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

79 answers to “Name a Turing Award winner”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank	Answer	Tier	Rarity	Monthly Wikipedia views
1	E. Allen Emerson on Wikipedia	Legendary	1.000	2,655
2	Edmund M. Clarke on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.987	3,550
3	Richard E. Stearns on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.974	3,774
4	Juris Hartmanis on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.962	3,930
5	Charles P. Thacker on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.949	4,197
6	James H. Wilkinson on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.936	4,744
7	John Cocke on Wikipedia	Epic	0.923	5,018
8	Joseph Sifakis on Wikipedia	Epic	0.910	5,104
9	Amir Pnueli on Wikipedia	Epic	0.897	5,172
10	Charles Bachman on Wikipedia	Epic	0.885	6,156
11	Ole-Johan Dahl on Wikipedia	Epic	0.872	7,157
12	Butler Lampson on Wikipedia	Epic	0.859	7,355
13	Robin Milner on Wikipedia	Epic	0.846	7,815
14	Fernando J. Corbató on Wikipedia	Epic	0.833	9,231
15	Peter Naur on Wikipedia	Epic	0.821	9,469
16	Maurice Wilkes on Wikipedia	Epic	0.808	10,793
17	Frances Allen on Wikipedia	Rare	0.795	10,908
18	Edward Feigenbaum on Wikipedia	Rare	0.782	11,528
19	Alan Perlis on Wikipedia	Rare	0.769	12,121
20	Pat Hanrahan on Wikipedia	Rare	0.750	12,270
21	William Kahan on Wikipedia	Rare	0.750	12,270
22	Leslie Valiant on Wikipedia	Rare	0.731	12,686
23	Silvio Micali on Wikipedia	Rare	0.718	13,576
24	Jack Dongarra on Wikipedia	Rare	0.705	13,693
25	Kristen Nygaard on Wikipedia	Rare	0.692	13,839
26	John Hopcroft on Wikipedia	Rare	0.679	13,930
27	Kenneth E. Iverson on Wikipedia	Rare	0.667	15,133
28	Alfred Aho on Wikipedia	Rare	0.654	15,499
29	Jeffrey Ullman on Wikipedia	Rare	0.641	15,718
30	Richard M. Karp on Wikipedia	Rare	0.628	16,091
31	Dana Scott on Wikipedia	Rare	0.615	18,550
32	Robert Tarjan on Wikipedia	Rare	0.603	19,245
33	Stephen Cook on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.590	20,289
34	Martin Hellman on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.577	20,647
35	Jim Gray on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.564	21,550
36	Fred Brooks on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.551	22,620
37	Allen Newell on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.538	22,710
38	Gilles Brassard on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.526	24,089
39	Leonard Adleman on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.513	24,728
40	Andrew Yao on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.500	25,190
41	Avi Wigderson on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.487	25,409
42	Manuel Blum on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.474	25,785
43	David Patterson on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.462	25,920
44	Whitfield Diffie on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.449	25,977
45	Ivan Sutherland on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.436	28,216
46	Robert Kahn on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.423	28,757
47	Shafi Goldwasser on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.410	30,219
48	John Backus on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.397	30,647
49	Richard Hamming on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.385	35,435
50	Robert W. Floyd on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.372	36,218
51	Ron Rivest on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.359	36,665
52	Raj Reddy on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.346	37,667
53	Michael Stonebraker on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.333	37,853
54	Edgar F. Codd on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.321	38,300
55	Niklaus Wirth on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.308	40,763
56	Adi Shamir on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.295	43,402
57	Robert Metcalfe on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.282	45,159
58	Barbara Liskov on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.269	54,883
59	Douglas Engelbart on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.256	56,962
60	Alan Kay on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.244	58,935
61	Leslie Lamport on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.231	68,282
62	Edwin Catmull on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.218	77,141
63	Judea Pearl on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.205	81,332
64	Richard S. Sutton on Wikipedia	Common	0.192	84,200
65	Herbert A. Simon on Wikipedia	Common	0.179	107,019
66	Tony Hoare on Wikipedia	Common	0.167	108,069
67	John L. Hennessy on Wikipedia	Common	0.154	113,299
68	Michael O. Rabin on Wikipedia	Common	0.141	120,320
69	Ken Thompson on Wikipedia	Common	0.128	167,193
70	Edsger W. Dijkstra on Wikipedia	Common	0.115	180,860
71	Dennis Ritchie on Wikipedia	Common	0.103	195,624
72	Donald Knuth on Wikipedia	Common	0.090	205,219
73	John McCarthy on Wikipedia	Common	0.077	232,390
74	Yoshua Bengio on Wikipedia	Common	0.064	251,846
75	Vint Cerf on Wikipedia	Common	0.051	261,185
76	Marvin Minsky on Wikipedia	Common	0.038	288,581
77	Yann LeCun on Wikipedia	Common	0.026	446,696
78	Tim Berners-Lee on Wikipedia	Common	0.013	728,742
79	Geoffrey Hinton on Wikipedia	Common	0.000	744,287

FAQ

What is the rarest Turing Award winner?

E. Allen Emerson is the rarest Turing Award winner in this ranking, with 2,655 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many Turing Award winners are there?

There are 79 Turing Award winners in this ranking, from E. Allen Emerson (rarest) to Geoffrey Hinton (most common).

What is the most common Turing Award winner?

Geoffrey Hinton is the most common Turing Award winner in this ranking, with 744,287 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.