Charles Simonyi Autographs

Charles Simonyi (/sɪˈmoʊni/; Hungarian: Simonyi Károly, pronounced ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist. He led the development of Microsoft's first application software, including early versions of Microsoft Office, and later co-founded Intentional Software, a company focused on his concept of intentional programming. A former researcher at Xerox PARC, he helped pioneer graphical user interfaces and introduced object-oriented programming and Hungarian notation to Microsoft. Simonyi flew to space twice as a private citizen, becoming the fifth space tourist and the only one to pay for two separate trips to the International Space Station. As of January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$7.5 billion.
Simonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Károly Simonyi, was a Kossuth Prize-winning professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest, and created the first Hungarian nuclear particle accelerator. While in secondary school he worked part-time as a night watchman at a computer laboratory in the early 1960s, overseeing a large Soviet Ural II mainframe. He took an interest in computing and learned to program from one of the laboratory's engineers. By the time he left school, he had learned to develop compilers and sold one of these to a government department. He presented a demonstration of his compiler to the members of a Danish computer trade delegation. In 2006 he said that when he was young his dream was, "to get out of Hungary, go to the West and be free."
At the age of 17, Simonyi left Hungary on a short-term visa but did not return. He was hired by Denmark's A/S Regnecentralen in 1966 where he worked with Per Brinch Hansen and Peter Kraft on the RC 4000 minicomputer's Real-time Control System, and with Peter Naur on the GIER ALGOL compiler.
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Traded items with a signature of Charles Simonyi

The most expensive item with a signature of Charles Simonyi (US astronaut - SPACE TOURIST Charles SIMONYI signed photo) was sold in April 2015 for $35.87 while the cheapest item (Space Tourist Soyuz TMA Charles Simonyi signed envelope) found a new owner for $0.99 in April 2008. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2008 with an average selling price of $8.50 for an autographed item of Charles Simonyi. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2015 with $35.87 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.25 was July 2021. In average, an autographed item from Charles Simonyi is worth $9.99.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Charles Simonyi were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Photo Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi, NOT SIGNED	$1.00
	SOYUZ COSMONAUT Charles Simonyi, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$5.00
	SOYUZ TMA COSMONAUT-Charles Simonyi, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$7.38
	Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$5.00
	Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$5.00
	Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT Charles Simonyi-AUTOGRAPHED,HAND SIGNED	$18.50
	Soyuz TMA-14 spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$5.00
	COSMONAUT Charles Simonyi, Soyuz TMA-14 AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$12.50
	Programmer Charles Simonyi Autographed Photo	$9.99
	RUSSIAN SOYUZ TMA-14 COSMONAUT Charles Simonyi, -AUTOGRAPHED,HAND SIGNED	$7.50
	RUSSIAN SOYUZ TMA-14 COSMONAUT Charles Simonyi, -AUTOGRAPHED,HAND SIGNED	$5.00
	Soyuz TMA-10 Cosmonaut Charles Simonyi AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$7.50
	Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$10.50
	Soyuz TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$9.38
	TMA-14 COSMONAUT --Charles Simonyi, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED	$11.50