Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954)
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be... More
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Marian Rejewski

Marian Rejewski

male, deceased (1980)
Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 - 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, in 1932, solved the Enigma machine, the... More
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Arthur Scherbius

Arthur Scherbius

male, deceased (1929)
Arthur Scherbius (20 October 1878-13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later... More
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Henryk Zygalski

Henryk Zygalski

male, deceased (1978)
Henryk Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Zygalski... More
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Jerzy Różycki

male, deceased (1942)
Jerzy Witold Różycki (pronounced ['jεʒɨ ru'ʒɨʦki]; Olshana, near Kiev, Ukraine, July 24, 1909 — January 9, 1942, Mediterranean Sea, near the Balear... More
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Hans-Thilo Schmidt

Hans-Thilo Schmidt

male, deceased (1943)
Hans-Thilo Schmidt codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who, during the 1930s, sold secrets about the Germans' Enigma machine to the French. The m... More
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Dilly Knox

Dilly Knox

male, deceased (1943)
Alfred Dillwyn 'Dilly' Knox (23 July 1884 - 27 February 1943) was a British codebreaker and classical scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He was... More
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Stefan Krah

male
Stefan Krah is a German violinist who cracked one of the last three remaining World War II enigma codes on March 4, 2006.
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Gustave Bertrand

Gustave Bertrand

male, deceased (1976)
Gustave Bertrand was a French military intelligence officer who made a vital contribution to the decryption, by Poland's Cipher Bureau, of German... More
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F. W. Winterbotham

F. W. Winterbotham

male, deceased (1990)
Frederick William Winterbotham was a British Royal Air Force officer who during World War II was responsible for the distribution of Ultra... More
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