Larry Sanger
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
4
Honours
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Rankings
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Records
Sanger's most significant accolade is the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, which he received in 2006 jointly with Jimmy Wales for creating Wikipedia. This award recognizes contributions to the socially responsible use of information technology. In 2011, his alma mater Reed College awarded him an honorary doctorate, honoring his role in democratizing knowledge. These honors reflect his foundational work in free online encyclopedias, even as his later career has focused on critiquing and improving the model he helped create.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
Co-recipient with Jimmy Wales for the creation of Wikipedia.
Honorary Doctorate
Awarded for contributions to free knowledge.
Wikipedia Hall of Fame
Informal recognition by the Wikimedia Foundation.
100 Most Influential People in Digital Knowledge
Listed for his impact on online knowledge.
Rankings & Lists
Top 10 Internet Entrepreneurs
100 Most Influential People in Digital Culture
25 Most Important People in the History of the Internet
The 100 Most Influential People in Tech
Records & Feats
Co-creator of the largest encyclopedia in human history
Sanger co-founded Wikipedia, which became the largest and most widely used reference work on the internet, with over 6 million articles in English alone.