Computer scientists
500 people
Renaissance 1
Enlightenment 2
19th Century 14
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
Douglas Hartree
British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)
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Harry Nyquist
Swedish-American physicist and electrical engineer (1889–1976)
Herman Hollerith
American statistician and inventor（1860-1929）
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
Leonardo Torres Quevedo
Spanish engineer and mathematician (1852-1936)
Luigi Federico Menabrea
Italian politician, scientist, and general (1809–1896)
Matthew Henson
American explorer (1866–1955)
Max Newman
British mathematician (1897–1984)
Mihailo Petrović
Serbian mathematician and philosopher (*1868 – †1943)
Ralph Hartley
American electronics researcher and information theorist (1888–1970)
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
USA IBM executive and art collector (1874-1956)
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
Warren Weaver
American mathematician (1894–1978)
Modern 483
Abraham Lempel
Israeli computer scientist (1936–2023)
Adam Osborne
American writer and software publisher (1939-2003)
Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist (born 1945)
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Adele Goldstine
American computer programmer (1920–1964)
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
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Adrian Carmack
video game artist and co-founder of id Software
Adrian Lamo
American hacker and threat analyst (1981–2018)
Ahn Cheol-soo
South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, software entrepreneur and...
Al Lowe
musician and game designer (born 1946)
Alan Cox
British computer programmer
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
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Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
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Alan Shugart
American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive (1930-2006)
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Alexandr Wang
founder CEO at Scale AI
Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
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Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist
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Allen Newell
American cognitive scientist (1927–1992)
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Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
American McGee
American game designer
Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and...
An Wang
American businessman (1920–1990)
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer (born 1960)
Andi Gutmans
Israeli businessman
Andrej Karpathy
Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986)
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Andrew Barto
Professor of computer science
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
Andrew Viterbi
Italian-born American electrical engineer and businessman
Andrew Y. Ng
American artificial intelligence researcher
Andrew Yao
computer scientist and computational theorist
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Andy Bechtolsheim
German electrical engineer (born 1955)
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
Angela Beesley Starling
co-founder of Wikia
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Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Annie Easley
American mathematician and rocket scientist
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Arfa Karim
Pakistani computer scientist (1995–2012)
Arkady Volozh
Russian businessman
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Armin Meiwes
German cannibal
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Arthur Samuel
American computer scientist (1901–1990)
Aubrey de Grey
British writer and biomedical gerontologist
Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
BY Mister J Sons
American computer programmer
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Bassel Khartabil
free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Bertrand Meyer
French computer scientist
Betty Holberton
American computer programmer (1917–2001)
Bill Atkinson
American computer engineer, programmer, and photographer (1951–2025)
Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
Biz Stone
American blogger; co-founder of Twitter
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
Blake Ross
American software developer
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Bram Cohen
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technology executive
Brewster Kahle
American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive
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Brian Acton
American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Bruce Perens
American computer scientist
Bruce Schneier
American computer scientist (born 1963)
Butler Lampson
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Carl Adam Petri
German mathematician (1926-2010)
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Carl Gustav Hempel
German philosopher (1905–1997)
Carlos Slim
Mexican business magnate and investor
Carol Shaw
American video game designer
Charles Bachman
American computer scientist (1924–2017)
Charles Geschke
American computer scientist
Charles H. Bennett
American physicist, information theorist and IBM Research fellow
Charles P. Thacker
American computer pioneer (1943–2017)
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer (1901–1987)
Charlotte Froese Fischer
Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist
Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Chris Hughes
American entrepreneur
Chris Metzen
American game designer, voice actor, author and artist
Christopher Poole
American internet entrepreneur (born 1988)
Christos Papadimitriou
Greek computer scientist (b. 1949)
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Cleve Moler
American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026)
Clive Sinclair
English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)
Craig Federighi
American software engineer
Craig Newmark
American entrepreneur and Craigslist founder
Curtis Yarvin
American far-right political theorist and computer scientist
Dan Bricklin
American computer scientist
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
Daniel Bell
American sociologist (1919–2011)
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
German activist
Daniel Ek
Swedish businessman (born 1983)
Daniel J. Bernstein
American German mathematician, cryptologist and programmer
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Daniel Lewin
American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur
Daniel Tammet
British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
Daphne Koller
Israeli-American computer scientist
Dave Cutler
American software engineer
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David A. Huffman
American computer scientist (1925–1999)
David A. Patterson
American computer scientist
David Deutsch
British physicist
David Filo
American businessman
David Heinemeier Hansson
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
David Karp
American web developer and entrepreneur
David Packard
American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (1912–1996)
Daði Freyr Pétursson
Icelandic musician
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C...
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Donald Norman
American academic
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Douglas McIlroy
American computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and programmer
Dustin Moskovitz
American computer/Internet entrepreneur
E. Allen Emerson
American computer scientist (1954–2024)
Eben Moglen
American law professor and free software advocate
Ed Roberts
American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor (1941–2010)
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Edgar F. Codd
English computer scientist (1923–2003)
Edith Windsor
American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM
Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
Edward Feigenbaum
American computer scientist (born 1936)
Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)
Edwin Catmull
American computer scientist and former president of Pixar (born 1945)
Eiji Aonuma
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
Elizabeth J. Feinler
American information scientist (born 1931)
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
American mathematician (1940-2019)
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Emilio Palma
first person born on the Antarctic mainland
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
Eric Allman
American computer programmer
Eric S. Raymond
American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
Eric Schmidt
software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
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Erich Gamma
Swiss computer scientist
Erik Möller
German freelance journalist, software developer, author and former Deputy Director of...
Erna Schneider Hoover
American mathematician
Eugene Garfield
American information and library scientist (1925–2017)
Eugene Kaspersky
Russian specialist in the information security field
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Eugene Roshal
Russian computer programmer
Evan Spiegel
American businessman (born 1990)
Evan Williams
American technology entrepreneur
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Evelyn Berezin
American computer scientist (1925–2018)
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Evelyn Boyd Granville
African-American mathematician (1924–2023)
Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian researcher and writer specializing in the political and social implications...
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Fabrice Bellard
French computer programmer
Fan Chung
Taiwanese-born American mathematician
Federico Faggin
Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur (born 1941)
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Fernando J. Corbató
American computer scientist (1926–2019)
Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
Frances Spence
American physicist and computer scientist
Frank Rosenblatt
American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No...
Friedrich L. Bauer
German computer scientist (1924–2015)
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
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Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)
Gary Vaynerchuk
Belarusian-American entrepreneur and investor
Geir Ivarsøy
Norwegian computer prgrammer (1957–2006)
Gene Amdahl
American physicist (1922-2015)
George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)
George Hotz
American hacker
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George Stibitz
American Bell Labs researcher; one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer...
Gilles Brassard
Canadian computer scientist
Ginni Rometty
American business executive
Gordon Bell
American computer engineer (1934–2024)
Gottfrid Svartholm
Swedish computer specialist, co-founder of The Pirate Bay
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Grady Booch
American software engineer
Gregory Chaitin
Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist
Grigore Moisil
Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer (1906–1973)
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
Hal Abelson
computer scientist
Hal Finney
American software developer (1956-2014)
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Hans Moravec
Austrian-American researcher
Hans Reiser
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
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Haskell Curry
American mathematician and logician (1900-1982)
Heinz von Foerster
Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician (1911-2002)
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Helena Rasiowa
Polish mathematician (1917-1994)
Henriette Avram
American computer programmer and system analyst (1919–2006)
Hidemaro Fujibayashi
Japanese video game designer
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher and mathematician
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Japanese video game designer (born 1962)
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Hiroshi Kaneda
astronomer
Howard H. Aiken
pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I...
Hu Jia
Chinese activist
Håkon Wium Lie
Norwegian software engineer
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I. J. Good
British statistician and cryptographer (1916–2009)
Ian J. Goodfellow
American computer scientist (born 1987)
Ian Murdock
American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015)
Ilya Sutskever
Canadian-Israeli AI researcher
Iosif Sifakis
Greek-French computer scientist
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Ivar Jacobson
Swedish computer scientist
J. C. R. Licklider
American psychologist and computer scientist (1915–1990)
J. Presper Eckert
American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919-1995)
Jack Dongarra
American computer scientist (born 1950)
Jack Dorsey
American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Jacob Appelbaum
American computer security researcher (born 1983)
Jacob Ziv
Israeli computer scientist (1931–2023)
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
Jakob Nielsen
Danish web usability consultant
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
James H. Clark
American entrepreneur and computer scientist
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James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician (1919–1986)
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James Rumbaugh
American computer scientist
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Jamie Zawinski
American programmer
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
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Janus Friis
Danish entrepreneur
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Jarkko Oikarinen
Finnish computer scientist
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Jawed Karim
American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
Jay Miner
American electrical engineer (1932–1994)
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Jay Wright Forrester
American operations researcher (1918–2016)
Jean Bartik
American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)
Jef Raskin
American computer interface expert (1943-2005)
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
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Jeffrey David Ullman
American computer scientist (born 1942)
Jennifer Tour Chayes
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1956)
Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
Jerry Yang
founder of Yahoo!
Jim Gray
American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
Jimmy Wales
co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
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Joan Clarke
English cryptanalyst
Joel Spolsky
American blogger
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
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John Cocke
American computer scientist (1925-2002)
John Draper
American computer programmer and former phone phreak
John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist
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John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President...
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John Henry Holland
US university professor ,American scientist (1929–2015)
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist (born 1952)
John Mauchly
American physicist (1907-1980)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
John Ousterhout
creator of the Tcl/Tk development environment
John Resig
programmer, creator of jQuery
John Romero
American video game designer
John Vincent Atanasoff
American computer pioneer (1903-1995)
John Warnock
American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023)
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Jon Hall
programmer and major contributor to the Linux project
Jon Lech Johansen
Norwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers
Jon Postel
American computer scientist (1943–1998)
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner
Icelandic businessman
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Joseph Kruskal
American statistician (1928-2010)
Joseph Weizenbaum
German-American computer scientist (1923-2008)
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
Joy Buolamwini
American computer scientist and digital activist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Juris Hartmanis
Latvian computer scientist (1928–2022)
Kai-Fu Lee
Taiwanese businessman
Karen Spärck Jones
British computer scientist (1935–2007)
Kateryna Yushchenko
Ukrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist (1919–2001)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Kathleen Antonelli
Irish computer programmer (1921-2006)
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Kathleen Booth
British computer scientist (1922–2022)
Katie Bouman
American engineer and computer scientist
Keiji Inafune
Japanese video game designer
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
Ken Olsen
American engineer and businessman (1926–2011)
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)
Kent Beck
American software engineer
Kevin Mitnick
American hacker (1963–2023)
Kevin Poulsen
hacking experience with Kevin Lee Poulsen
Kevin Systrom
American computer programmer and entrepreneur (born 1983)
Kevin Warwick
British robotics and cybernetics researcher
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
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Klara Dan von Neumann
Hungarian computer scientist (1911-1963)
Konrad Zuse
German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Larry Ellison
American internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)
Larry Ewing
American software programmer
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist (1937–2018)
Leah Lewis
American actress (born 1996)
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Leslie Valiant
computer scientist, university teacher (1949-)
Lex Fridman
American computer scientist and podcaster
Lila Tretikov
Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
Limor Fried
electrical engineer
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Louis Pouzin
French computer scientist
Luciano Floridi
Italian philosopher
Luis von Ahn
Guatemalan entrepreneur and computer scientist
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
László Lovász
Hungarian mathematician (1948–)
Manal al-Sharif
Saudi Arabian activist
Manindra Agrawal
Indian computer scientist
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Marcian Hoff
American electrical engineer
Margaret Hamilton
American NASA scientist and mathematician
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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
American biochemist (1925-1983)
Maria Klawe
Canadian-American computer scientist
Marissa Mayer
American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!
Mark Shuttleworth
South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station
Mark Zuckerberg
American Internet entrepreneur
Marlyn Meltzer
programmer for the ENIAC computer
Martin Davis
American mathematician (1928–2023)
Martin Edward Hellman
American cryptologist (born 1945)
Martin Fowler
British programmer
Martin Odersky
German computer scientist, inventor of Scala programming language
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Mary Jackson
American mathematician and aerospace engineer
Mary Kenneth Keller
first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously...
Masahiro Sakurai
Japanese video game designer (born 1970)
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese computer pioneer
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Masayuki Uemura
Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor (1943–2021)
Matthias Ettrich
German programmer, founder of the KDE project
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Maurice Karnaugh
American physicist (1924–2022)
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010)
Max Euwe
Dutch chess player and mathematician
Michael Dell
American businessman and CEO (born 1965)
Michael Morhaime
American video game developer and businessman
Michael O. Rabin
Israeli computer scientist
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Michael S. Hart
American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)
Michael Stonebraker
American computer scientist (born 1943)
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Michalis Dertouzos
Greek academic (1936-2001)
Miguel de Icaza
Mexican free software developer
Mike Harrington
co-founder of Valve Corporation
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Mike Markkula
American businessman (born 1942)
Mitchell Baker
Chairwoman; former CEO (born 1957)
Morris Halle
Latvian-American linguist (1923-2018)
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Nancy Lynch
American computer scientist
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer
Neil Druckmann
Israeli-American video game designer (born 1978)
Nicholas Metropolis
Greek American physicist (1915–1999)
Nicholas Negroponte
American computer scientist (born 1943)
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Nick Szabo
American computer scientist
Niklas Zennström
Swedish entrepreneur
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
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Nikolai Durov
Russian programmer and mathematician
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Noga Alon
Israeli mathematician
Nolan Bushnell
American entrepreneur
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Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)
Parag Agrawal
Indian–American technology executive
Pat Hanrahan
American computer graphics researcher
Patrick Volkerding
American software engineer
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
Paul Baran
American engineer (1926–2011)
Paul Buchheit
American computer engineer; created Gmail
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Paul G. Comba
American astronomer (1926–2017)
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Personal
American
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Peter Chen
American computer scientist
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of...
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Peter Norton
American programmer, software publisher
Peter Norvig
American computer scientist
Peter Shor
American professor of applied mathematics at MIT
Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
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Phil Katz
American software developer, developer of the ZIP file format (1962-2000)
Phil Zimmermann
creator of Pretty Good Privacy
Philippe Kahn
French entrepreneur, camera phone inventor
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Pierre Bézier
French mathematician (1910–1999)
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)
Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist
Ralph Merkle
American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author and engineer
Randy Pausch
American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
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Rashad Khalifa
Egyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
Ray Ozzie
American businessman
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician (1919–2017)
Richard Bandler
American author and trainer in the field of self-help
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Richard E. Bellman
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Richard E. Stearns
American computer scientist
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Richard Hamming
American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
Richard S. Sutton
Canadian computer scientist
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer,...
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Rob Levin
founder of the IRC network freenode (1955–2006)
Rob Pike
software engineer
Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)
Robert Cecil Martin
American software consultant (b. 1952)
Robert Fano
Italian-American computer scientist (1917–2016)
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer and inventor
Robert Mercer
American computer scientist and businessman
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Robert Tappan Morris
American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
Robert Tarjan
American computer scientist
Robert Taylor
American computer scientist (1932–2017)
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Robert W. Floyd
American computer scientist (1936-2001)
Robin Li
billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
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Robin Milner
British computer scientist (1934-2010)
Rodney Brooks
Australian roboticist
Rolf Landauer
American-German physicist, engineer (1927-1999)
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer
Ronald Graham
American mathematician (1935-2020)
Ronald Wayne
American engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Rosalind Picard
American computer scientist
Ross Ulbricht
American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road
Rudy Rucker
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)
Ruth Teitelbaum
American computer programmer and mathematician
Ruzena Bajcsy
American computer scientist
Ryo Kawasaki
Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)
Sal Khan
American educator (born 1976)
Satoru Iwata
Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959–2015)
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Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
Satya Nadella
Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
Scott Cawthon
former independent video game developer
Scott E. Fahlman
Computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Forstall
American software engineer
Sean Parker
American entrepreneur, programmer and philanthropist
Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev
Soviet computer scientist (1902–1974)
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Seth Godin
American entrepreneur, author and public speaker (b. 1960)
Seymour Cray
Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer (1925–1996)
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist
Shantanu Narayen
Indian American business executive and CEO of Adobe
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
Silvio Micali
Italian-American computer scientist
Solomon Marcus
Romanian mathematician (1925-2016)
Solomon W. Golomb
American mathematician (1932–2016)
Sophie Wilson
British computer scientist (born 1957)
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist (1909–1994)
Stephen Cook
American-Canadian computer scientist
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
Steve Ballmer
American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
Steve Chen
Chinese-American businessman
Steve Huffman
American businessman
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
Steve Russell
American video game programmer and designer (born 1937)
Steve Shirley
British businesswoman and philanthropist (1933–2025)
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Steve Wilhite
American theoretical computer scientist (1948–2022)
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Stuart J. Russell
British computer scientist (1962-)
Subhash Kak
Indian computer scientist
Sudha Murthy
Indian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
Sugata Mitra
Indian computer scientist, best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment
Sundar Pichai
Indian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc.
Susan Athey
American economist
Takashi Tezuka
Japanese video game designer and producer
Ted Chiang
American science fiction writer
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Ted Dabney
American electronic engineer, the co-founder of Atari, Inc. (1937–2018)
Ted Nelson
American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
Terry Winograd
American professor
Theo de Raadt
Leader of the OpenBSD project
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Thomas E. Kurtz
American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Tim Cook
American business executive
Tim O'Reilly
Irish-American author and publisher
Tim Schafer
American video game designer (born 1967)
Todd Howard
American video game designer, director, and producer (born 1970)
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Tom Kilburn
British electrical engineer (1921–2001)
Tommy Flowers
British engineer, helped to design Colossus during World War II (1905–1998)
Tommy Rettig
American child actor (1941–1996)
Ton Roosendaal
Dutch software developer (born 1960)
Tony Fadell
Engineer, entrepreneur, founder and investor (b. 1969)
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Travis Kalanick
American entrepreneur
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Japanese marine engineer (1916–2010)
Vernor Vinge
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944–2024)
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
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Vladimir Levenshtein
Russian mathematician (1935–2017)
Whitfield Diffie
American cryptographer (born 1944)
Will Wright
American video game designer and entrepreneur (born 1960)
William A. Dembski
American intelligent design advocate
William Daniel Hillis
American computer scientist (born 1956)
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)
William Redington Hewlett
American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1913–2001)
Yann Le Cun
French computer scientist (born 1960)
Yoshua Bengio
Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
Yu Suzuki
Japanese video game designer
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
Yuri Matiyasevich
Soviet and Russian mathematician
Zeev Suraski
Israeli computer scientist
Éva Tardos
Hungarian mathematician