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.
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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
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G
Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language
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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, programming language C
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
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
Q
R
Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
Dennis Ritchie
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
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V
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
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Y
Z
Jill Zimmerman, James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers
See also
List of programmers
List of computer scientists
List of pioneers in computer science
List of Russian IT developers
Computing Computing people
