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, co-developer of the AWK
• Leonard Adleman, encryption (RSA)
• Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation

B

• Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell

C

• John Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software
• Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic

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

• Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
• James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language

H

• Grace Hopper, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.

I

• Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple

J

• Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple
• Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, BSD

K

• Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, C programming language
• Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX

L

• Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language
• Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
• Ada Lovelace

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
• Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, Inc, SpaceX,

N

• Roger Needham
• John von Neumann, theoretical computer science
• Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit

P

• Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry
• Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA

R

• Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
• Dennis Ritchie, Unix operating system and C programming language
• Ron Rivest, encryption (RSA)
• Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life

S

• Adi Shamir, encryption (RSA)
• Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical
• Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
• Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine
• Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++

T

• Linus Torvalds, Linux
• Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer

W

• Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic
• Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter
• Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
• Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language
• Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set
• Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
• Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

Z

• Jill Zimmerman, James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
• Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers
• Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook

See also

• List of programmers
• List of computer scientists
• List of pioneers in computer science
• List of Russian IT developers