Olivier Danvy is a French computer scientist specializing in programming languages, partial evaluation, and continuations.

Danvy received his PhD degree from the Université Paris VI in 1986.

[1] He is notable for the number of scientific papers which acknowledge his help.

Writing in Nature, editor Declan Butler reports on an analysis of acknowledgments on nearly one third of a million scientific papers and reports that Danvy is "the most thanked person in computer science".

[2] Danvy himself is quoted as being "stunned to find my name at the top of the list", ascribing his position to a "series of coincidences": he is multidisciplinary, is well travelled, is part of an international PhD programme, is a networker, and belongs to a university department with a long tradition of having many international visitors.