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 Greenspan Creator of Think Computer Corporation and alleged co-inventor of Facebook. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Aaron Levie American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of cloud company Box. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Aaron Swartz American computer programmer, writer, and Internet activist. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Abhay Bhushan Author of FTP. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Abraham Lempel Father of LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Father, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ada Lovelace World's first computer programmer. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Adam Osborne Inventor of the first portable computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Adele Goldberg Computer scientist who helped develop Smalltalk. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Adi Shamir One of the co-inventors of the RSA algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Adrian Carmack One of the founders of iD Software. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Al Alcorn Pong. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Al Gore American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | Al Lowe American programmer, and game designer known for the Leisure Suit Larry game series. Category: Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Alain Colmerauer One of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in developing the TAUM-METEO machine. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alain Glavieux Co-inventor of codes that helped shape digital communication. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, 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 Emtage Developer for Archie the first search engine. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | 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 Kotok Computer scientist, hacker, and developer. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Alan Schaaf Founder of Imgur, the world's largest image hosting site. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | Alan Shugart Pioneer of the computer disk drive and founder of Seagate Technology. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alan Turing Developer of the Turing Machine and Turing Test. Category: Analyst, Father, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Albert Einstein Respected theoretical physicist. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Albert Gonzalez Computer hacker and computer criminal. Category: Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Albert Hull American electrical engineer known for inventing the magnetron. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alessandro Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Alex Holden Ukrainian IT researcher who found 1.2 billion stolen passwords. Category: Hacker, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Alexander Bain Inventor of the electric clock. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alexander Brudno Computer scientist who discovered the alpha-beta algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Douglas Developer of the first graphical computer game, OXO. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Alexander Fraser British-American computer scientist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Graham Bell Inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the telephone. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Alexey Pajitnov Inventor of Tetris. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alexis Ohanian American entrepreneur and angel investor best known for investing in Reddit. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Allen Adham Egyptian American businessman and co-founder of video game developer Silicon & Synapse now Activision Blizzard. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Allen Coombs Key designer of the Colossus computer. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Allen Dumont American scientist best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Allen Newell Computer science and cognitive psychology researcher. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Allen Stern Tech blogger and entrepreneur who lost over 125-pounds while offering weight-loss tips and recipes to thousands on the Internet. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alonzo Church Founder of theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Amanda Chessell Computer scientist and engineer at IBM known for software inventions and innovation of development tools. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Amber Macarthur Canadian television and netcasting personality well known for the Call for Help series. Category: Female, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | Amir Pnueli Respected computer scientist who focused on temporal logic and model checking. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Amy Briggs American computer programmer and interactive fiction game creator. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | An Wang Engineer and inventor, and co-founder of Wang Laboratories. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Anand Shimpi American businessman and founder of AnandTech website. Category: CEO, Editor, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Anatoliy Morozov Ukrainian scientist in the field of cybernetics and chief designer of the RADA system. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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, Writer, and X |
 | Andreas Bechtolsheim Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Category: Engineer, Founder, Investor, Manager, 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 Baron Creator of Rocketboom, Know Your Meme and the video aggregator site, Magma. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Bobeck American electrical engineer and inventor of bubble memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorithm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Chi-chih Yao Computer scientist and computational theorist who created Yao's Principle. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Grove Former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kaluzniacki Software engineer and game engine developer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Andrew Mccollum Co-founder of Facebook and an angel investor. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Ng Associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Plotkin Interactive fiction writer known as Zarf. Category: Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Sullivan British author, editor, and one of the first political bloggers. Category: Editor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Tanenbaum American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Bryant American businessperson and Chairman of multinational semiconductor company Intel. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Andy Hertzfeld One of the original Apple Macintosh developers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Rubin Co-founder and former CEO of Danger Inc. and Android Inc. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | Angie Hicks Co-founder and CMO of Angie's List. Category: Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Anthony Barr Computer programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Anthony Casalena Created Squarespace. Category: Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | Anthony Wood Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Antoni Kilinski Helped develop the computer science curriculum. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Antonin Svoboda Computer scientist, engineer, and researcher credited for fault-tolerant computer systems. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Arash Ferdowsi Iranian-American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of online storage service Dropbox. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arianna Huffington Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. Category: Editor, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Armas Markkula Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Arnold Dumey Inventor of computer hashing and the postal sorting machine. Category: Analyst, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Burks Mathematician who helped design the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Arthur Clark Science fiction author, inventor, and futurist. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Rock Venture capitalist and investor. Category: Investor, Manager, 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 |
 | Arthur Scherbius German electrical engineer known for inventing the Enigma machine. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Athanasius Kircher Oriental studies and medicine. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | August-wilhelm Scheer Founder and director of IDS Scheer AG. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | August Dvorak Educational psychologist best known for creating the Dvorak simplified keyboard. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Azim Premji Indian business tycoon, philanthropist, and chairman of Wipro Limited. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
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