Programmer computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Programmer. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Aaron Swartz American computer programmer, writer, and Internet activist. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ada Lovelace World's first computer programmer. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Adele Goldberg Computer scientist who helped develop Smalltalk. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Al Lowe American programmer, and game designer known for the Leisure Suit Larry game series. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Alain Colmerauer One of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in developing the TAUM-METEO machine. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Cooper Father of Visual Basic. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Cox Linux developer and Free Software Foundation award recipient. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Kay Computer pioneer who help create the idea of a laptop computer, GUI, Ethernet, laser printing, and Smalltalk. Category: Hacker, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Miller Pioneer and influential figure in the video game industry and early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Perlis Well-known and respected computer scientist known for his work with computer programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexey Ivanov Russian computer programmer and hacker. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alexey Lyapunov Soviet mathematician and pioneer of computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alonzo Church Founder of theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Amy Briggs American computer programmer and interactive fiction game creator. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Anders Hejlsberg Author of Turbo Pascal and chief architect of Delphi. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andi Gutmans Israeli programmer and entrepreneur and PHP developer (created PHP 3 in 1997). Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andreas Raab German computer scientist who developed new concepts and applications in 3D graphics and key contributor to the Squeak platform. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrei Ershov Pioneer in the field of theoretical and systems programming. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andrew Plotkin Interactive fiction writer known as Zarf. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Anthony Barr Computer programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Arthur Samuel Big contributor to the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the first to use hash tables. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Barbara Liskov First women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bernard Galler American mathematician and computer scientist who worked in developing large-scale operating systems and computer languages. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bertrand Meyer Author, and consultant who created the Eiffel programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Duvall Receiver of the first computer network communication, ARPANET. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bill Gosper American mathematician and programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Richard Greenblatt. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Kendrick American software developer known for creating and maintaining Tux Paint. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bjarne Stroustrup Computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ computer programming language. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brad Fitzpatrick Creator of LiveJournal and author of various free software projects such as OpenID and memcached. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brad Templeton Software Architect and early pioneer of Usenet. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bram Cohen Author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brendan Eich Software developer and creator of JavaScript. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Fargo American video game designer, producer, programmer, executive, and founder of developers Interplay Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Fox Entrepreneur, free software supporter, and original author of the GNU Bash shell. Category: African American, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist who coined the term Unix and helped with the development of Unix, AWK, and AMPL. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Reynolds American videogame designer known for his online social games on Facebook. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bruce Eckel Author and lecturer who has written numerous books and articles on computer programming. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Butler Lampson Computer scientist who help with the development of the first personal computer. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Carl Sassenrath Designer of operation systems and computer programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Carol Shaw American software engineer and the first female video game designer. Category: Engineer, Female, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Chandu Thota Computer engineer, author, and entrepreneur. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Bachman Computer scientist known for his work in computer databases. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Hamblin Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer who is known for the introduction of Reverse Polish Notation. Category: Logician, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Hoare Computer scientist who developed the Quicksort algorithm. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Moore Inventor and developer of the Forth programming language. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Simonyi Software executive who oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charley Kline Sent the first letters of the word 'LOGIN' to start Computer Networking. Category: Investor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Christopher Strachey British scientist known for CPL and Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Christopher Weaver Software developer and game programmer and contributor to the real-time sports simulation technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Cleve Moler American computer programmer and inventor of MATLAB. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Corrado Bohm Computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Craig Reynolds Creator of Boids artificial life simulation. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Cuthbert Hurd Computer scientist who helped IBM develop the first general-purpose computer. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Danese Cooper Open source diva and American computer programmer. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Daniel Friedman American computer scientist, author and programming language researcher. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Daniel Ingalls Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Daniel Mccracken American Computer scientist, pioneer, and programmer. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Bradley Developer of the three finger salute. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Crane Making games for the Atari 2600. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Filo Co-founder of Yahoo!. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Hansson Danish computer programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Huffman Computer science pioneer known for his Huffman coding. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Parnas Pioneer of software engineering. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Young American computer scientist and mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Demis Hassabis British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer and gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dennis Ritchie Creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Dimitri Bertsekas Applied mathematician and computer scientist known for Convex optimization and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Don Syme Australian born computer scientist and creator of the F# programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Donald Bitzer American electrical engineer and computer scientist and Father of PLATO. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Knuth Father of analysis of algorithms, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and metafont font. Category: Father, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Crockford Influential American computer programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Douglas Ross Computer scientist pioneer who is known for the term CAD and as the father of APT. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dries Buytaert Open-source software programmer known as founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS (content management system). Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Edmund Berkeley Co-founder of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edsger Dijkstra Developer of ALGOL and the shortest path algorithm. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Shortliffe Canadian-born American physician and computer scientist known for his work in artificial intelligence in medicine. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Yourdon Developer of structured analysis technique. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Eric Bina Co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Eric Chahi Computer game designer and programming language author. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Eric Raymond American computer programmer, author, and open source software advocate. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Evelyn Granville One of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D in mathematics. Category: African American, Female, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Fernando Corbato Computer scientist and pioneer of time-sharing operating systems that helped inspire Unix and other operating systems. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Frances Allen American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Friedrich Bauer Computer scientist known for data structure that helped developed the programming languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gary Robinson American software engineer, inventor and computer programmer known for fighting spam. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | George Dantzig Mathematical scientist best known for linear programming. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Necula Best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Georgy Adelson-velsky Soviet computer scientist who helped invent the AVL tree and the development of chess programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gerald Weinberg American computer scientist, author, and teacher. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gordon French Computer programmer and engineer who co-founded the Homebrew Computer Club. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Grace Hopper Female officer who extended the meaning of debug and is erroneously credited as coining the term bug. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Guido Van Rossum Author of the Python programming language. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Guy Steele Often called The Great Quux. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Hans Anvin Swedish computer programmer known for his contributions to free and open source projects. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Hans Reiser American computer programmer, creator of ReiserFS computer file system and convicted murderer. Category: Convict, Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Harlan Mills Founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Haskell Curry Pioneer of combinatorial logic. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Heinz Zemanek Austrian computer pioneer best known for developing the first transistorized computer on the European continent. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Herb Schildt American computer programmer and computing author. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Herb Sutter Prominent C++ expert, book author, and columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Herbert Simon Pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Hermann Bottenbruch Co-author of the computer programming language ALGOL 58. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Howard Cunningham American programmer who developed the first wiki. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ivan Sutherland Inventor of the Sketchpad and co-founder of Evans and Sutherland. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Gosling Father of the Java programming language. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jane Jensen American game designer and writer known for the Gabriel Knight adventure games. Category: Director, Father, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jarkko Oikarinen Initial developer of IRC. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jean Bartik One of the world's first computers and computer programmers. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jean Sammet American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language. Category: Engineer, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jef Raskin Known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Ullman Computer scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jim Hall Computer programmer and advocate for free software known for his work on FreeDOS. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Ossanna Electrical engineer and computer programmer known for his work with Unix operation system. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Backus Directory of the team that created the first high-level programming language (FORTRAN). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Carmack American game programmer and founder of Id Software. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Draper Programmer phone phreak. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Mauchly American physicist who helped develop the ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Mcafee American computer programmer and founder of McAfee and one of the first to design antivirus software. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Mccarthy American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence (AI) and created Lisp. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Ousterhout Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Resig Computer programmer and entrepreneur known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Romero Co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom, and Quake. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Vittal Computer programmer who's credited with transforming the old e-mail system into the highly user-friendly tool. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Walker Computer programmer and founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Joseph Weizenbaum German-American author, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who helped create MICR and created ELIZA. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Julian Assange Editor, activist, computer programmer, and hacker best known as the founder of WikiLeaks. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justin Frankel American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kathleen Antonelli One of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ken Thompson Developer of Unix, B programming language, and Multics. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ken Williams Co-founder of On-Line System, which became Sierra On-Line. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Kenneth Iverson Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kimberly Bryant Senior biotech manager and founder of Black Girls Code. Category: African American, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kirk Lafler American engineer, programmer, author, entrepreneur, consultant, and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Klaus Samelson German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Konrad Zuse Developer of the Z1, the first programmable computer. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Kristen Nygaard Computer scientist who developed SIMULA I and SIMULA-67 - the first object-oriented programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Larry Roberts Creator of the ARPANET (predecessor to the modern Internet). Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Larry Tesler American computer scientist and inventor of copy and paste. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Wall Original developer of Perl. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Laszlo Kalmar Hungarian mathematician considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Laurie Hendren Pioneer in the field of compiler and object-oriented programming language analysis. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Leonid Khachiyan Soviet mathematician who helped advance the field of linear programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lois Haibt Computer scientist known for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lorinda Cherry Computer programmer who worked at Bell Labs as an assembly language programmer. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lou Montulli Programmer known for his work in producing web browsers, namely Lynx and Netscape. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Malcolm Mcilroy Mathematician, engineer, and programmer known for Unix pipelines and software componentry. Category: Chairman, Editor, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Marc Canter CEO of Broadband Mechanics and previously founder of MacroMind, the company that became Macromedia. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mark Abene Infosec expert, computer programmer, cryptographer, and hacker. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Crispin Which he invented in 1985. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Kriegsman American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, writer, and Director of Engineering at Veracode. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mark Mccahill American programmer who has been involved in developing and popularizing many Internet technologies. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Zuckerberg Co-creator of Facebook. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Markus Persson Developer of the game Minecraft. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Fowler Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Odersky German computer scientist and Professor of programming methods at EPFL in Switzerland who specializes in code analysis. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Maurice Wilkes British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing specifically microcomputing. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Miguel Icaza Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mike Berlyn American video game designer and writer. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Muni Sakya Nepalese computer programmer credited with helping bring Information Technology to Nepal. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Nathan Rochester Designer of the IBM 701, programmer of the first assembler, and helped create the artificial intelligence field. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Nathaniel Borenstein American computer scientist and one of the original designers of the MIME protocol. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Niklaus Wirth Computer scientist who programmed the Pascal language. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ole-johan Dahl Norwegian computer scientist considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Owen Mock Computer software designer and programmer who pioneered computer operating systems in the 1950s. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Patrick Gelsinger Chief executive officer at VMware and former president and chief operating officer at EMC Corporation. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Patrick Volkerding Software engineer and founder of the Slackware Linux distribution. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Cress Canadian computer scientist who led a team of programmers developing Fortran language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Paul Graham Venture capitalist, and essayist known for his work on Lisp (a family of computer programming languages). Category: Founder, Hacker, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Laughton Former systems programmer for IBM one of Apple Computers first programmers. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Per Hansen Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Landin British computer scientist who was first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used in programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Molyneux English video game designer and game programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Peter Naur Danish pioneer in computer science and programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Peter Norton American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Peter Norvig Pioneer of information processing and artificial intelligence. Category: Director, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Weinberger Computer scientist who helped write the AWK programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Phil Farrand American computer programmer, webmaster, and author. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Phil Fish French-Canadian game designer working with Polytron and creator of the game Fez. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Phillip Katz Computer programmer known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Pieter Abeele Software developer, and founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rajeev Sangal Professor and author known for his work in processing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar (CPG) framework. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ralph Griswold American computer scientist noted for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Randy Wigginton Programmer and one of Apple Computer's first employee number 6. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship best known as the creator of the PHP scripting language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ray Tomlinson American programmer who implemented an e-mail system on the ARPANET. Category: Manager, Personality, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Brodie Author original creator of Microsoft Word. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. Category: Manager, Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Greenblatt American computer programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Bill Gosper. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Skrenta Computer programmer and creator of search engine blekko. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Stallman American software freedom activist and computer programmer who launched the GNU project. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rob Barnaby Computer programmer, author and developer of the word processor Wordstar. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rob Hartill Web designer and computer programmer known for his work on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Barton And the co-inventor of dataflow. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Gentleman Canadian statistician known as one of the creators of the R (programming language). Category: Director, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Griesemer Computer programmer who works at Google and one of the first designers of the Go programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Martin Consulting firm that specializes in training clients in Java, C++, OOP. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Pike Canadian software engineer and author known for his work with Plan 9 at Bell Labs. Category: Editor, Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Roger Hui Computer scientist and co-developer of the J programming language and recipient of the Kenneth E. Iverson Award Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ross Ihaka Associate Professor of statistics and one of the creators of the R programming language. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Saul Rosen Lead software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Sebastian Thrun Founder of Google X, home to projects like the Google self-driving car and Google Glass. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Seymour Cray Founder of Cray. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Shawn Fanning Computer programmer and co-founder of Napster. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sidney Meier Canadian programmer and video game designer known for video game Civilization. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Simon Travaglia Author of BOFH (the Bastard Operator from Hell) series. Category: Analyst, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Stephen Dunwell American electrical engineer who led the engineering effort in the development of IBM's STRETCH. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Steve Capps Computer programmer and engineer known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Steve Mann Researcher and inventor known for his work on computational photography and wearable computing. Category: Editor, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Russell Computer scientist who helped create Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Steven Punter Also known as Punter or Old Punter. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Stu Galley American computer programmer and interactive fiction game author. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Stuart Cheshire Senior Scientist at Apple Computer and author of Mac multi-player game Bolo who Pioneered Zeroconf networking. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | T Jones American software engineer, computer programmer, entrepreneur, and author. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Thomas Kurtz Co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tom Jennings Technician, and creator of FidoNet, the first file networking and message system for BBSes. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Toru Iwatani World's most popular arcade game. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Valentin Turchin Soviet and American computer scientist and cybernetician who developed the Refal programming language. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Vasily Gorshkov Russian Computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Vinod Khosla American businessman, billionaire and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Vladimir Levin Russian-born Jewish computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Wenmei Hwu Professor specializing in computer architecture, compiler design, parallel processing and computer microarchitecture. Category: Chairman, Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Wietse Venema Dutch programmer, physicist, and Google software engineer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | William Stevens Author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Yukihiro Matsumoto Japanese computer scientist and software programmer known as the lead designer of the Ruby programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Zeev Suraski Israeli programmer who created PHP 3 in 1997, a server-side scripting computer programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |