Computer People - A
Below is a listing of computer pioneers, inventors, and other people who have contributed to the computer industry that have a first or last name beginning with the letter 'A'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Aaron Levie American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of cloud company Box. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, and Twitter |
 | Aaron Swartz American computer programmer, writer, and Internet activist. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Abhay Bhushan Author of FTP. Category: Chairman, Engineer, President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Abraham Lempel Father of LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Father, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Ada Lovelace World's first computer programmer. Category: Female, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Adam Osborne Inventor of the first portable computer. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Adele Goldberg Computer scientist who helped develop Smalltalk. Category: Female, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Adi Shamir One of the co-inventors of the RSA algorithm. Category: Inventor and Programmer |
 | Adrian Carmack One of the founders of iD Software. Category: Coined and Founder |
 | Alain Glavieux Co-inventor of codes that helped shape digital communication. Category: Inventor, Professor, and Writer |
 | Alan Cooper Father of Visual Basic. Category: Father and Writer |
 | Alan Cox Linux developer and Free Software Foundation award recipient. Category: Programmer |
 | Alan Emtage Developer for Archie the first search engine. Category: Programmer and Twitter |
 | Alan Kay Computer pioneer who help create the idea of a laptop computer, GUI, Ethernet, Laser Printing, and Smalltalk. Category: Inventor and Programmer |
 | Alan Kotok Computer scientist, hacker, and developer. Category: Hacker, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Alan Perlis Well known and respected computer scientist known for his work with computer programming languages. Category: Programmer and Scientist |
 | Alan Shugart Pioneer of the computer disk drive and founder of Seagate Technology. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Founder |
 | Alan Turing Developer of the Turing Machine and Turing Test. Category: Analyst, Founder, Logician, Mathematician, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Albert Einstein Well known and respected theoretical physicist. Category: Physicist and Writer |
 | Albert Gonzalez Computer hacker and computer criminal. Category: Hacker |
 | Alessandro Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Category: Physicist |
 | Alexander Bain Inventor of the electric clock. Category: Engineer and Inventor |
 | Alexander Brudno Computer scientist who discovered the alpha-beta algorithm. Category: Scientist |
 | Alexander Douglas Developer of the first graphical computer game, OXO. Category: Professor and Programmer |
 | Alexander Fraser British-American computer scientist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Alexander Graham Bell Inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the telephone. Category: Engineer, Inventor, and Scientist |
 | Alexey Lyapunov Soviet mathematician and pioneer of computer science. Category: Founder, Mathematician, and Scientist |
 | Alexey Pajitnov Inventor of Tetris. Category: Engineer, Inventor, and Programmer |
 | Alexis Ohanian American entrepreneur and angel investor best known for investing in Reddit. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Allen Coombs Key designer of the Colossus computer. Category: Engineer |
 | Allen Dumont American scientist best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers. Category: Founder, Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Allen Newell Computer science and cognitive psychology researcher. Category: Researcher |
 | Amber Macarthur Canadian television and netcasting personality well known for the Call for Help series. Category: Female, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Amir Pnueli Respected computer scientist who focused on temporal logic and model checking. Category: Scientist |
 | Anders Hejlsberg Author of Turbo Pascal and chief architect of Delphi. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andreas Bechtolsheim Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Category: Engineer, Founder, and Investor |
 | Andrei Ershov Pioneer in the field of theoretical and systems programming. Category: Founder, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andrew Baron Creator of Rocketboom, Know Your Meme and the video aggregator site, Magma. Category: Twitter |
 | Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorthm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Physicist, and Scientist |
 | Andrew Chi-chih Yao Computer scientist and computational theorist who created Yao's Principle. Category: Scientist |
 | Andrew Grove Former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Engineer, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, and President |
 | Andrew Tanenbaum American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX. Category: Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Hertzfeld One of the original Apple Macintosh developers. Category: Programmer and Scientist |
 | Anthony Barr Computer programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer and Inventor |
 | Anthony Wood Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, President, and Programmer |
 | Antoni Kilinski Helped develop the computer science curriculum. Category: Professor and Programmer |
 | Antonin Svoboda Computer scientist, engineer, and researcher credited for fault-tolerant computer systems. Category: Engineer, Mathematician, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | An Wang Engineer and inventor, and co-founder of Wang Laboratories. Category: Engineer, Founder, and Inventor |
 | Arash Ferdowsi Iranian-American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of online storage service Dropbox. Category: Entrepreneur and Founder |
 | Armas Markkula Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, and President |
 | Arnold Dumey Inventor of computer hashing and the postal sorting machine. Category: Analyst, Engineer, and Inventor |
 | Arthur Burks Mathematician who helped design the ENIAC. Category: Mathematician |
 | Arthur Clark Science fiction author, inventor, and futurist. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Arthur Rock Venture capitalist and investor. Category: Investor |
 | Arthur Samuel Big contributor to the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the first to use hash tables. Category: Programmer |
 | August Dvorak Educational psychologist best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. Category: Professor and Writer |
 | August-wilhelm Scheer Founder and director of IDS Scheer AG. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Professor, and Programmer |
 | Azim Premji Indian business tycoon, philanthropist and chairman of Wipro Limited. Category: Chairman |