Q: Where was Mark Russinovich born?

A: He was born in Salamanca, Spain, but later became a U.S. citizen.

Q: What is Mark Russinovich’s role at Microsoft?

A: He works on cloud advocacy and has contributed to Windows and Azure development.

Q: What notable tools has he created?

A: He developed Sysinternals, a critical toolkit for Windows system administrators.

Mark Russinovich

Spanish-born American software engineer

Person human Q92829

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Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[12]
Date of birth: December 22, 1966
Place of birth: Salamanca
Country of citizenship: United States^[8]
Occupation: computer scientist, programmer, writer, business executive, software developer
Employer: Microsoft^[9]
Educated at: Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University^[10]
Official website: www.markrussinovich.com^[15]
Doctoral advisor: Zary Segall^[11]
Languages spoken, written or signed: English^[17]
Birth name: Mark Eugene Russinovich^[18]
Family name: Russinovich^[13]
Given name: Mark^[14]
Name in native language: Mark Russinovich^[19]
Product or material produced: software^[16]
Social media followers: 146k (107k–146k, n=3)^[20]^[21]^[22]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 35

ISNI: 0000000110625846
VIAF cluster ID: 51978357
Library of Congress authority ID: n00010996
GND ID: 122530241
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Mark Russinovich.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 15066365z
Bluesky handle: markrussinovich.bsky.social
CONOR.SI ID: 71495011
DBLP author ID: 30/4468
DDB person (GND) ID: 122530241
Facebook username: mark.russinovich
Freebase ID: /m/08t64y

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IdRef ID: 061133213
JRC Names ID: 273192
LinkedIn personal profile ID: markrussinovich
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 183462
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2668406376
NDL Authority ID: 00843367
NL CR AUT ID: xx0052532
NUKAT ID: n2004092310
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007441933605171
National Library of Korea ID: KAC200201043
National Library of Latvia ID: 000123184
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 322718988
Notable Names Database ID: 522/000123153
Obálky knih ID: xx0052532
Open Library ID: OL2803952A
Quora topic ID: Mark-Russinovich-1
SBN author ID: RMSV044777
SHARE Catalogue author ID: 476735
SVKKL authority ID: 0254174-Russinovich-Mark-E
Tor.com author ID: mark-russinovich
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJckRrm4mtKxrktXYjwXBP
X (Twitter) username: markrussinovich
Yale LUX ID: person/6817d8d5-ec67-4969-924e-95c91b2fcae1

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Occupation 5

writer, programmer, computer scientist, software engineer, business executive

Educated at 2

Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Country of citizenship 1

United States

Employer 1

Microsoft

Founded entities 1

Sysinternals

Given name 1

Mark

Instance of 1

human

Languages spoken, written or signed 1

English

Place of birth 1

Salamanca

Product or material produced 1

software

Sex or gender 1

male

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Summary

Mark Russinovich was born on December 22, 1966^[1], in Salamanca^[2]. He has worked as a computer scientist^[3], programmer^[4], writer^[5], business executive^[6], and software developer^[7].

FAQs

Where was Mark Russinovich born?

Mark Russinovich's place of birth was Salamanca^[2].

What did Mark Russinovich do for work?

Mark Russinovich worked as a computer scientist^[3], programmer^[4], writer^[5], business executive^[6], and software developer^[7].

Where did Mark Russinovich go to school?

Mark Russinovich was educated at Carnegie Mellon University^[10].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Mark Russinovich — place of birth (P19): Salamanca. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Mark Russinovich — sex or gender (P21): male. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2024-07-12. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Mark Russinovich — country of citizenship (P27): United States. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Mark Russinovich — educated at (P69): Carnegie Mellon University. Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Mark Russinovich — occupation (P106): computer scientist. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Mark Russinovich — occupation (P106): programmer. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Mark Russinovich — occupation (P106): writer. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Mark Russinovich — occupation (P106): business executive. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Mark Russinovich — occupation (P106): software developer. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2026-04-20. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Mark Russinovich — employer (P108): Microsoft. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Mark Russinovich — doctoral advisor (P184): Zary Segall. Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Mark Russinovich — date of birth (P569): December 22, 1966. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Mark Russinovich — family name (P734): Russinovich. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Mark Russinovich — given name (P735): Mark. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2015-08-14. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Mark Russinovich — official website (P856): https://www.markrussinovich.com/. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Mark Russinovich — product or material produced (P1056): software. National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Mark Russinovich — languages spoken, written or signed (P1412): English. IdRef. Retrieved 2020-03-04. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Mark Russinovich — birth name (P1477): Mark Eugene Russinovich. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Mark Russinovich — name in native language (P1559): Mark Russinovich. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Mark Russinovich — social media followers (P8687): 106,756. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Mark Russinovich — social media followers (P8687): 130,073. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Mark Russinovich — social media followers (P8687): 145,883. wikidata.org.

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20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

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