Torvalds

People

• Ole Torvalds, journalist and poet
• Nils Torvalds, son of Ole; broadcast journalist, writer and politician
• Linus Torvalds, 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