title: Torvalds
text: # Torvalds
  
  Torvalds (Swedish:) is a Swedish/Finnish family name. It may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Ole Torvalds (1916–1995), journalist and poet
  * Nils Torvalds (b. 1945), son of Ole; broadcast journalist, writer and politician
  * Linus Torvalds (b. 1969), son of Nils; software engineer and creator of the Linux kernel, who now works and lives in the U.S.
  
  ## Other
  
  * 9793 Torvalds, asteroid named for Linus Torvalds
  * Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate, debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds about Linux and kernel architecture in general
  