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Randall Munroe
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American cartoonist, author and engineer
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Randall Patrick Munroe is an American programmer, comics artist, writer, and computer scientist. He was born in Easton in 1984 and is a citizen of the United States. Munroe is educated at Christopher Newport University and has worked at the Langley Research Center. He currently works in Cambridge and speaks English.
He is the notable creator of the webcomic xkcd. His published works include What If?, How To, Wat als? 2.0, and the Hebrew title מה אם. Munroe has an author count of five works listed in library records.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1984-10-17
- Works
- 5
Top works
- מה אם
- Wat als? 2.0
- What If?
- How To
- xkcd
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Randall Patrick Munroe , ( 1984-10-17 ) October 17, 1984 (age 41) , Easton, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Christopher Newport University ( BS )
- Genre
- Webcomics , popular science
- Notable works
- xkcd What If? Thing Explainer How To What If? 2
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Easton
- Employer
- Langley Research Center
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- xkcd.com
- Image
- Randall Munroe 2016.jpg
- Work location
- Cambridge
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- Commons category
- Randall Munroe
- date of birth
- 1984-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Randall Munroe
- social media followers
- 317589
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Randall Munroe
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, titled xkcd: Volume 0, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To, and What If? 2.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Randall Munroe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.