List of Famous people with last name Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds
First Name Linus
Born on December 28, 1969 (age 55)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface.

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Nils Torvalds

First Name Nils
Born on August 7, 1945 (age 80)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Nils Ole Hilmer Torvalds is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a member of the Swedish People's Party of Finland, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

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Ole Torvalds

Ole Torvald Elis Saxberg
First Name Ole
Born on August 4, 1916
Died on February 8, 1995 (aged 78)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Ole Torvalds was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet. He was the father of journalist-politician Nils Torvalds and grandfather of software engineer Linus Torvalds famous for the Linux kernel.

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Tove Torvalds

Tove Monni
First Name Tove
Last Name Torvalds
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