List of Sun Microsystems employees

List of people who worked at Sun Microsystems at some point prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.

A

 * Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology
 * Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author of "The Java Programming Language".

B

 * Todd Basche, creator of the SUN Portable SPARCstation, Apple's iLife & inventor of Wordlock
 * Carol Bartz, head of SunFed, Sun service and worldwide operations; Autodesk CEO, Yahoo! CEO
 * Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun co-founder, systems designer and Silicon Valley investor
 * Joshua Bloch, author of Effective Java
 * Jon Bosak, chair of the original XML working group
 * Jeff Bonwick, slab-allocator, vmem and ZFS
 * Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell
 * Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies
 * David J. Brown, SUN workstation and Solaris
 * Paul Buchheit, engineer at Sun from May 1997 to August 1997; Creator of Gmail

C

 * Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators", co-inventor of DTrace.
 * Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems
 * Danny Cohen, co-creator of Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithms, coined the computer terms "Big Endians" and "Little Endians" (Endianness)
 * Danese Cooper, Open Source specialist

D

 * James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Tomcat web container and the Ant build tool
 * L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript
 * Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor of public-key cryptography
 * Robert Drost, one of Technology Review's 2004 "Top 100 Young Innovators"

F

 * Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
 * Marc Fleury, creator of the JBoss application server
 * Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of several MIME RFCs

G

 * Richard P. Gabriel, Lisp expert and founder of Lucid, Inc.
 * John Gage, Chief Researcher and former Science Officer; first Sun salesman
 * John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions
 * Gary Ginstling, music industry executive
 * James Gosling, co-inventor of Java; creator of NeWS networked extensible window system; author of the first (proprietary) Unix implementation of the Emacs text editor
 * Todd Greanier, software architect, author and instructor
 * Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

J

 * Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences; CEO of Sun UK from 2007; CEO of Curriki
 * Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect of BSD Unix; author of the vi text editor

K

 * Vinod Khosla, Sun co-founder and Silicon Valley investor

L

 * Susan Landau, mathematician and cybersecurity expert
 * Adam Leventhal, co-inventor of DTrace
 * Peter van der Linden, former manager of kernel group, author of numerous Java and C books

M

 * Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA
 * Clark Masters EVP, Enterprise Systems and Father of the E10K, President of SunFed
 * Craig McClanahan, creator or the Apache Struts framework and architect of Tomcat's servlet container, Catalina
 * Scott McNealy, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Sun; CEO from 1984-2006
 * Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover
 * Björn Michaelsen, Director at The Document Foundation
 * Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquisition in 2008
 * Jim Mitchell, Vice President and Sun Fellow
 * Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder of Debian

N

 * Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
 * Patrick Naughton, co-creator of Java
 * Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority
 * Peter Norvig, Director of Research Google

O

 * John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language

P

 * Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
 * Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"
 * Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer
 * Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive
 * Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA

R

 * George Reyes, former CFO of Google, Inc.
 * David S. H. Rosenthal, early X Window System developer and original designer of the ICCCM
 * Wayne Rosing, project lead for the Apple Lisa; Sun hardware development manager and manager of Sun Labs

S

 * Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996
 * Eric Schmidt, former Sun Chief Technology Officer, chairman and former CEO of Google, Inc., and co-developer of lex
 * Jonathan I. Schwartz, former President and CEO of Sun
 * Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace
 * Bob Sproull, computer graphics pioneer
 * Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages
 * Bert Sutherland, manager of Sun Labs, Xerox PARC, BBN Computer Science Division
 * Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer

T

 * Bruce Tognazzini, computer usability consultant
 * Marc Tremblay, microprocessor architect and Sun's employee with the most awarded patents
 * Bud Tribble, former VP of software development at NeXT, current VP of software technology at Apple

W

 * Jim Waldo, lead architect of Jini
 * Michael Widenius, original author of MySQL

Y

 * William Yeager, software architect, inventor of the multi-protocol router.

Z

 * Edward Zander, former President of Sun Microsystems; former CEO of Motorola