Andy Hopper

Professor
Sir Andy Hopper
CBE FRS FIET FREng
Professor Sir Andy Hopper CBE FRS FIET FREng
Born	Andrew Hopper; 9 May 1953; Warsaw, Poland
Alma mater	Swansea University (BSc); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Acorn Computers; Active Badge; Virata Corporation; Virtual Network Computing; RealVNC;
Spouse	Alison Gail Smith (m. 1988)
Awards	Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (1989); Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1996); Mountbatten Medal (2004); Fellow of the Royal Society (2006); CBE (2007); MacRobert Award (2013); Bakerian Medal (2017);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Technology
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Swansea University;
Thesis	Local area computer communications networks (1978)
Doctoral advisor	David Wheeler
Doctoral students	Andy Harter
Website	www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah12

Sir Andrew Hopper (born 9 May 1953) is a British-Polish computer technologist and entrepreneur. He is a founding General Partner at Cambridge AI Venture Partners and since 2025 has been Chairman of CommonAI Community Interest Company and CommonAI Compute Ltd. He is also Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, former Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society, Professor Emeritus of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.