Torvalds () is a Swedish/Finnish family name. It may refer to:

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Ole Torvalds Ole Torvalds (4 August 1916 – 8 February 1995) 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. His full name ...

(1916–1995), journalist and poet *

Nils Torvalds Nils Ole Hilmer Torvalds (born 7 August 1945) is a Finnish politician who had been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2012 to 2024. He is a member of the Swedish People's Party of Finland, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democra ...

(b. 1945), son of Ole; broadcast journalist, writer and politician *

Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored, along with Shinya Yam ...

(b. 1969), son of Nils; software engineer and creator of the Linux kernel, who now works and lives in the U.S.

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* 9793 Torvalds, asteroid named for Linus Torvalds *

Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate Starting in 1992, Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds had a written debate over the Internet regarding the Linux kernel and kernel architecture in general. Tanenbaum, the creator of Minix, began the debate in Usenet discussion group , argu ...

, debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds about Linux and kernel architecture in general

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