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Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the Python programming language. He is also the author of several other open-source software projects, including the GNU Readline library and the ZSI (Zope SOAP Interface) package.

Van Rossum was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating in 1982, he went on to work for Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), a Dutch research center for mathematics and computer science.

In 1989, van Rossum began working on the Python programming language. He released the first version of Python in 1991, and the language has since become one of the most popular programming languages in the world.

Van Rossum has received numerous awards for his contributions to computer science, including the ACM Software in Public Interest Award (2001) and the Free Software Award (2005). He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).

van Rossum retired from full-time development of Python in 2018, but he remains active in the Python community. He currently serves as a Distinguished Engineer at Dropbox.