Famous personalities in the world of computing

  • Ada Lovelace (The First Programmer)
  • Alan Cooper (Creator of Visual BASIC – 1991)
  • Alan Kay (Creator of Smalltalk and object-oriented programming)
  • Alan Turing (Father of theoretical computing and artificial intelligence)
  • Alexey Pajitnov
  • Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++)
  • Brendan Eich
  • Chad Hurley (YouTube Creator)
  • Charles Babbage
  • Clifford Berry
  • Creole Katherine Johnson
  • Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (Dennis Ritchie) (Creator of UNIX and the C language)
  • Donald Knuth.
  • Douglas Carl Engelbart (Inventor of the PC mouse)
  • Evelyn Berezin (first word processor)
  • Federico Faggin
  • Geoffrey Hinton
  • George Boole
  • Grace Murray Hopper (Grace Hopper) (The first compiler in history)
  • Guido Van Rossum (The creator of Python)
  • Herman Hollerith
  • James Gosling
  • Jawed Karim (YouTube Creator)
  • John Atanasoff
  • John Backus
  • John Carmack
  • John Von Neumnan
  • John W. Backus
  • Joseph Weizenbaum (Creator of ELIZA and SLIP)
  • Jude Milhon (The Protective Saint of Hackers)
  • Ken Thompson (Creator of UNIX)
  • Konrad Zuse (created the first Z3 programmable computer)
  • Lawrence Edward Page (Creator of Google)
  • Linus Benedict Torvalds (Linus Torvalds) (Creator of Linux and GIT)
  • Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) (Creator of Facebook)
  • Maurice Vincent Wilkes (invented the concept of microprogramming)
  • Niklaus Wirth (Father of modern programming)
  • Paul Allen (Co-founder of Microsoft)
  • Philip Donald Estridge (The father of the IBM PC)
  • Radia Perlman (Invented the STP (Spanning-Tree Protocol) protocol)
  • Rasmus Lerdorf (Creator of PHP)
  • Richard Stallman (Creator of the GNU project)
  • Sergey Mijaylovich Brin (Creator of Google)
  • Seymour Cray
  • Shawn “Napster” Fanning (created Napster)
  • Steve Chen (YouTube Creator)
  • Steve Wozniak (Apple inventor)
  • Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) (Founder of Apple Computer)
  • Tim Berners-Lee (The creator of the World Wide Web, URL, HTML and HTTP)
  • Wendell Brown
  • William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates)(The creator of the Software industry, Founder of Microsoft)