People
The visionaries and engineers who created foundational technologies.
Aaron Swartz
Web Pioneer and Activist
Ada Lovelace
First Computer Programmer
Alain Colmerauer
Creator of Prolog
Alan Kay
Father of Object-Oriented Programming
Alan Turing
Father of Computer Science
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor of the Telephone
Allen Newell
Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence
Anders Hejlsberg
Creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript
Arthur Whitney
Creator of kdb+ and K
Barbara Liskov
Pioneer of Abstract Data Types and the Liskov Substitution Principle
Betty Holberton
ENIAC Programmer and Computing Pioneer
Bill Joy
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Bjarne Stroustrup
Creator of C++
Bob Kahn
Father of the Internet
Brad Fitzpatrick
Creator of LiveJournal and Memcached
Brendan Eich
Creator of JavaScript
Butler Lampson
Pioneer of Personal Computing
Charles Babbage
Father of the Computer
Charles Bachman
Creator of the First DBMS
Charles K. Kao
Father of Fiber Optics
Chris Granger
Creator of Light Table
Chris Lattner
Creator of LLVM and Swift
Chuck Moore
Creator of Forth
Claude Shannon
Father of Information Theory
Cleve Moler
Creator of MATLAB
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails
Dennis Ritchie
Creator of C and Co-creator of Unix
Donald Knuth
Father of Algorithm Analysis
Douglas Engelbart
Inventor of the Computer Mouse
Edgar F. Codd
Father of the Relational Database
Edwin Howard Armstrong
Inventor of FM Radio
Evan You
Creator of Vue.js and Vite
Fabrice Bellard
Creator of QEMU and FFmpeg
Gerald Jay Sussman
Co-creator of Scheme and SICP
Gordon Moore
Co-founder of Intel and Author of Moore's Law
Grace Hopper
Mother of COBOL and Pioneer of Compilers
Graydon Hoare
Creator of Rust
Guglielmo Marconi
Pioneer of Wireless Communication
Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python
Guy Steele
Co-creator of Scheme and Language Design Pioneer
Harry Nyquist
Pioneer of Information Theory
Hedy Lamarr
Co-Inventor of Spread Spectrum Technology
Igor Sysoev
Creator of Nginx
Ivan Sutherland
Father of Computer Graphics
James Clark
XML and SGML Pioneer
James Gosling
Creator of Java
Jean Sammet
Creator of FORMAC and Programming Language Historian
Jeff Dean
Google Systems Architect
Jeremy Ashkenas
Creator of CoffeeScript and Backbone.js
Jim Gray
Pioneer of Transaction Processing
Joe Armstrong
Creator of Erlang
John Backus
Creator of FORTRAN and BNF Notation
John Bardeen
Co-inventor of the Transistor
John Carmack
Pioneer of 3D Graphics and Game Engines
John G. Kemeny
Co-creator of BASIC
John McCarthy
Father of Artificial Intelligence
John von Neumann
Father of Modern Computing Architecture
Jonathan Gay
Creator of Flash
Jordan Walke
Creator of React
José Valim
Creator of Elixir
Kateryna Yushchenko
Creator of Address Programming Language
Katherine Johnson
NASA Mathematician
Ken Kennedy
High Performance Computing Pioneer
Ken Thompson
Co-creator of Unix, Go, and UTF-8
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl
Lars Bak
Creator of V8 and Dart
Leslie Lamport
Pioneer of Distributed Systems
Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux and Git
Margaret Hamilton
Pioneer of Software Engineering
Martin Cooper
Father of the Cell Phone
Martin Fowler
Software Patterns Author
Martin Hellman
Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography
Martin Odersky
Creator of Scala
Matthias Ettrich
Founder of KDE
Michael Stonebraker
Pioneer of Database Systems
Michael Widenius
Creator of MySQL and MariaDB
Nathaniel Rochester
Creator of the First Assembler
Niklaus Wirth
Designer of Pascal and Champion of Simplicity
Paul Allen
Microsoft Co-Founder
Peter Naur
Editor of ALGOL 60 Report and Software Engineering Pioneer
Phil Wadler
Pioneer of Functional Programming
Radia Perlman
Mother of the Internet
Rasmus Lerdorf
Creator of PHP
Ray Kurzweil
Pioneer of OCR and Speech Synthesis
Rich Harris
Creator of Svelte and Rollup
Rich Hickey
Creator of Clojure
Richard Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Movement
Rob Pike
Co-creator of Go, UTF-8, and Plan 9
Robert Griesemer
Co-creator of Go
Roberto Ierusalimschy
Creator of Lua
Robin Milner
Creator of ML and Pioneer of Concurrency Theory
Roy Fielding
Creator of REST and Co-founder of Apache
Ryan Dahl
Creator of Node.js and Deno
Seymour Cray
Father of Supercomputing
Simon Peyton Jones
Haskell Designer and GHC Architect
Sindre Sorhus
Open Source Developer
Stephen Wolfram
Creator of Mathematica
Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple and Creator of Apple I/II
Taylor Otwell
Creator of Laravel
Theo de Raadt
Founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH
Thomas E. Kurtz
Co-creator of BASIC
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Tom Christiansen
Perl Developer and Educator
Tony Hoare
Creator of Quicksort and CSP
Vint Cerf
Father of the Internet
Walter Brattain
Co-inventor of the Transistor
Walter Bright
Creator of D and First Native C++ Compiler
Ward Cunningham
Inventor of the Wiki
Whitfield Diffie
Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography
William Shockley
Co-inventor of the Transistor
Xavier Leroy
Creator of OCaml and CompCert
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Creator of Ruby