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My Take
Graham-Cumming earns my respect for reasons beyond his obvious technical brilliance. Yes, he is an Oxford-trained engineer, author, and a former CTO and board member at Cloudflare. But what truly moves me is that he launched the petition that pressured the UK government into apologizing for its persecution of Alan Turing, the very father of computing. An engineer could have simply written code; instead he acted on principle and got a Prime Minister to say sorry. I value that kind of moral conviction more than any line of software. He turned indignation into history, and that, to me, is the rarer talent.
Overview
John Graham-Cumming is a British software engineer and writer best known for starting a successful petition to the Government of the United Kingdom asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued the apology in September 2009.As of 2025, Graham-Cumming is a member of the Board of Directors at Cloudflare, where he previously served as the company's Chief Technology Offic…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- John Graham-Cumming
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョン・グラハム＝カミング
- Reading
- じょん・ぐらはむ＝かみんぐ
- Born
- January 1, 1953 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- engineer / programmer / writer / author
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
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4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.