List of computing people
This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.
A
- Alfred Aho, the A in AWK
- Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation
B
- Charles Babbage, inventor of the programmable computer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
- Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell
C
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic
- John D. Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software
D
- Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects
E
- J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
- Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux
G
- Guido van Rossum, author of Python-programming language
- Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
- James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language
H
I
- Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple,
J
- Bill Joy, co-founder Sun Microsystems, BSD
K
- Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, Programming Language C
- Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", TeX
L
- Ada Lovelace
- Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
- Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language
M
- John William Mauchly, ENIAC
- John McCarthy, LISP programming language
- Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- Marvin Minsky, AI luminary
- Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, Moore's Law
- Myo Nyi
N
- Roger Needham
- John von Neumann, Theoretical Computer Science
O
P
- Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
- Sir John Anthony Pople pioneer in computational chemistry
R
- Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
- Dennis Ritchie
- Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adleman, Encryption (RSA)
- Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life
- Robert Noyce - Cofounder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit
- Rasmus Lerdorf
S
- Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical.
- Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
- Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine
- Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++
- Steve Jobs, cofounder and CEO of Apple
T
- Linus Torvalds, Linux
- Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer
W
- Kevin Warwick, Cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter.
- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Critic
- Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
- Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers
- Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
Z
- Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers