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

 * Ken Thompson, Unix and Plan 9 operating systems
 * 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