Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish software developer best known as the creator of curl, a widely used command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Born and raised in Huddinge near Stockholm, he received the 2017 Polhem Prize for his work on curl, later joined wolfSSL to support the project full time, and has been active in the Internet Engineering Task Force working groups for the HTTP/2 and QUIC protocols. In 2025 the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences awarded him its Gold Medal for his open source work on curl.
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1. Daniel Stenberg (Wikidata)
Wikidata alias: Magnus Daniel Stenberg
Magnus Daniel Stenberg
Wikidata P166: Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Wikidata P166 (award received): Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Wikidata P166: Polhem Prize
Wikidata P166 (award received): Polhem Prize.
Wikidata P166: Nordic Free Software Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Nordic Free Software Award.
P569 (date of birth): year 1970
1970
P569 (date of birth): 1970-11-23
1970-11-23
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