Reported net worth: $8.4B (as of 2025).
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Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist. He led the development of Microsoft's first application software, including early versions of Microsoft Office, and later co-founded Intentional Software, a company focused on his concept of intentional programming. A former researcher at Xerox PARC, he helped pioneer graphical user interfaces and introduce…
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business · Hungarian-American billionaire software architect (b. 1948) · space tourist · computer scientist · inventor · programmer · engineer · businessperson · also Charles Simonyi, Simonyi
Born 10 September 1948 · Q49819
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: All about Martha Stewart’s billionaire ex Charles Simonyi — who told her in bed he was marrying someone else
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Yahoo: All About Charles Simonyi, the Microsoft Billionaire Who Quietly Dated Martha Stewart for 15 Years (Including While She Was in Prison)
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2018· 1 entry
“The universe is, so far as I know, Doctor Mayer, indifferent to what you believe or disbelieve.”
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2017· 1 entry
Intentional Software was acquired by Microsoft
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2009· 3 entries
SpaceNews: Space Adventures’ Orbital Spaceflight Client Charles Simonyi Returns to Earth after Completing Second Mission to the International Space Station
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Held a phone conversation with students at The Girls' Middle School in Mountain View, California, United States in which he said that one of the most surprising things about traveling to space was that upon returning
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Returned to space aboard Soyuz TMA-14
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2008· 1 entry
Gizmodo: Charles Simonyi to Become World’s First Repeat Space Tourist
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2007· 8 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2007).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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Along with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut
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Was delayed by one day due to 'boggy ground'
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The American Radio Relay League reported that Simonyi was already making ham radio contacts from space
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Simonyi said, "It is amazing how it appears from the blackness of the sky
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“It is amazing how it appears from the blackness of the sky. It was very, very dramatic. It was like a big stage set, a fantastic production of some incredible opera or modern play. That”
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Career landmark: spaceflight.
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2006· 1 entry
Said that when he was young his dream was, "to get out of Hungary, go to the West and be free
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2005· 1 entry
As part of $25 million donation, a Simonyi Professorship of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, held by Edward Witten 2005–present
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2004· 1 entry
Simonyi received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for the industry-wide impact of his innovative work in information technology
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2003· 1 entry
Founded the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle
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2002· 1 entry
To co-found, with business partner Gregor Kiczales, a company called Intentional Software
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1997· 1 entry
Simonyi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for developing widely used desktop productivity software
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1995· 1 entry
The Simonyi Professorship of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, first held by Richard Dawkins (1995-2008), currently by Marcus du Sautoy
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1981· 1 entry
At Metcalfe's suggestion, he visited Bill Gates at Microsoft who suggested Simonyi start an applications group at Microsoft with the first application being a WYSIWYG word processor
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1980· 1 entry
By Bertalan Farkas's spaceflight, 27 years before Simonyi's first one, in 2007
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1977· 1 entry
With a dissertation on a software project management technique he called meta-programming
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1968· 1 entry
To attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his BS in Engineering Mathematics & Statistics in 1972 under Butler Lampson
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1966· 1 entry
Where he worked with Per Brinch Hansen and Peter Kraft on the RC 4000 minicomputer's Real-time Control System, and with Peter Naur on the GIER ALGOL compiler
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-09-10.
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