Computer People - L
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 'L'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Lap Hui Chinese American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of eMachines and Everex. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Larry Constantine American software engineer and professor at the University of Madeira Portugal. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Larry Ellison Founder of Oracle. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Page Co-founder of Google. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Larry Press Professor of Information Systems at California State University. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Roberts Creator of the ARPANET (predecessor to the modern Internet). Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Larry Sanger American online knowledge organizer and co-founder of Wikipedia. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Smarr Physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Lars Rasmussen Danish-born computer scientist, software developer and co-founder of Google Maps. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Laszlo Kozma Hungarian electrical engineer and designer of the first Hungarian digital computer, 1957. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Laurence Spitters American industrialist and investor who co-founded Memorex (1961). Category: Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Laurie Hendren Pioneer in the field of compiler and object-oriented programming language analysis. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Roberts One of the four fathers of the Internet who help create the ARPANET. Category: CEO, Director, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Rowe Computer scientist and founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC). Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lee Boysel American engineer who developed four-phase logic and built first integrated circuit. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lee Felsenstein One of the original founders of the Homebrew computer club. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lee Forest American inventor who invented the Audion, a vacuum tube. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lee Mcmahon American computer scientist best known for his contributions to early versions of the Unix operating system. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lee Sanghyeok Professional League of Legends computer game player. Category: Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Leo Fantl Father of business computing responsible for the many advanced payroll applications he helped deliver. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leo Laporte American technology broadcaster, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Category: Editor, Entrepreneur, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Leon Bollee French automobile manufacturer and inventor of one of the first calculators. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leon Chua Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley and inventor of Chua's circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Leonard Adleman Widely called the Father of DNA Computing. Category: Director, Father, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonard Bosack Co-founder of Cisco Systems responsible for pioneering the commercialization of local area network (LAN) technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leonard Kleinrock Developer of packet switching that help create the Internet we know today. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Leonard Shustek Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonid Khachiyan Soviet mathematician who helped advance the field of linear programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Leonid Levin Soviet-American computer scientist known for his work in randomness in computing and algorithmic complexity. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leslie Berlin Project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University and contributing writer for the New York Times. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leslie Comrie Astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation, first to use punched cards. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Leslie Lamport American computer scientist best known as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Linus Torvalds Original developer of Linux. Category: Hacker, Manager, Twitter, 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 |
 | Lori Matassa Senior staff platform software architect in Intel's Embedded and Communications Division. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lorinda Cherry Computer programmer who worked at Bell Labs as an assembly language programmer. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lotfali Zadeh Mathematician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and founder of fuzzy mathematics. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, Scientist, 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 |
 | Louis Couffignal French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer and author of La cybernétique (1978). Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Louis Gerstner Chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Louis Pouzin Invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Luanne Johnson Founded Argonaut Information Systems to sell payroll and accounts payable software in 1971. Category: Female, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lydia Kavraki Greek-American computer scientist known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics. Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lynn Conway American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor who invented the generalized dynamic instruction handling. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lynn Gref Technologist and systems engineer, who has done pioneering work in missile systems. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
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