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Computer scientists and programmers

Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and activist (1986–2013)
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Alonzo Church
American mathematician and computer scientist (1903–1995)
Andrew Yao
Computer scientist and computational theorist
Arthur E. Bryson
American control theorist
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
Brendan Eich
American computer programmer and technologist
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Dave Cutler
American software engineer
Dennis Ritchie
American computer scientist
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University
Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur
Gene Amdahl
American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur
George Zames
Canadian control theorist (1934–1997)
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and US Navy admiral (1906–1992)
Herman Hollerith
American statistician and inventor
Howard H. Aiken
Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
J. Presper Eckert
American electrical engineer and computer pioneer
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist (born 1955)
Jay Wright Forrester
American operations researcher
Jean Ichbiah
French computer scientist (1940-2007)
John McAfee
American computer programmer and businessman
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
American scientist (1927–2011)
John Warnock
American computer programmer
Ken Thompson
American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system
Konrad Zuse
20th-century German computer scientist and engineer
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Linus Torvalds
Creator and lead developer of Linux kernel
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Electrical engineer and computer scientist
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist
Mary Kenneth Keller
First American woman to receive a PhD in computer science
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Richard M. Karp
American mathematician
Richard Stallman
American free software activist, and founder of GNU Project
Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist
Roger Sisson
American computer scientist (1926-1992)
Satoshi Nakamoto
Designer and developer of bitcoin
Seymour Cray
Supercomputer architect and engineer
Shawn Fanning
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor
Stephen Cook
American-Canadian computer scientist, contributor to complexity theory
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist
Ward Cunningham
American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
Wesley A. Clark
American physicist and computer engineer